Staff Software Engineer, Snap
Full Stack
$222-333k
+ Equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Social media & camera company
Job no longer available
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$222-333k
+ Equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Lead from the front in terms of technical design and execution
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently and solve organizational level challenges
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with high attention to detail
- Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of a company
- Experience in solving open ambiguous problems from product inception to delivery
- Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale
- Strong JavaScript (and/or TypeScript), HTML, and CSS programming skills
- Knowledge of ReactJS, AngularJS, or similar UI frameworks
- Knowledge of OOP, SOLID and FP
- Solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming principles
- Understanding of domain-driven design principles
- Understanding CQRS, GraphQL, GRPC, Web GL, Canvas
- Proven knowledge of unit testing
- BS/BA in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of experience
- 11+ years of experience developing Front End software
Desirable
- Advanced degree in a related technical field
- Experience working with large-scale microservices and distributed systems
- Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks (cypress, puppeteer or playwright)
- Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
- Experience making critical decisions for complex technical issues in real-time, considering timelines and urgency
- Experience working with a diverse group of engineers
What the job involves
- As a member of the Safety Engineering org, you will prototype, develop and productionize technical solutions to protect user safety on our platform
- Working from our Los Angeles, Mountain View, or Seattle office, you will be tasked with solving interesting technical challenges in the user safety domain, architecting and deploying infrastructure to handle at scale and making our platform safe and secure for millions of Snapchatters
- Lead, design and implement large-scale front-end applications to protect user safety
- Lead, design, implement, and operate our critical and scalable services across the user safety infrastructure
- Work cross functionally to deep dive into open problems to keep abuse off the platform
- Work cross functionally to deep dive into open problems, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products
- Lead the efforts for engineering best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
- Guide junior engineers on the team from design, code reviews and mentor them
Our take
Snap is the social media giant that owns Snapchat, a social media mobile app released in 2011. Created to serve as a more emotive communication form than texting, the app has gained mass popularity, reaching upwards of 400 million daily users worldwide.
After rejecting a billion dollar acquisition from Meta (then Facebook) in 2013, Snap has found itself in competition with the social media giant, particularly with Instagram. Despite this, the company has marked a place for itself in the ever competitive social media space through developing features like a Discover tab, augmented reality lenses, in-app games, ads and monetisation options, as well as launching its paid service, Snapchat+.
Snap has so far not earned an annual profit since going public in 2017, but as Snapchat's user base has continually increased it has nearly closed the gap. Like other tech companies it suffered in late 2022 due to a surprise drop in advertising revenue, but has been rebuilding to its former trajectory since then. Given Snapchat's lasting popularity amongst young people, further success appears likely.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Paid maternity, paternity and family caregiver leave
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, caregiver assistance and digital maternity care support
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HSA and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including LASIK benefits
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes, hikes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Generous time off and leave programmes
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Emotional and mental health support programmes and apps
- Social gatherings, team outings and volunteering programmes
- Speaker series, classes and subscriptions to educational programmes
- Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega Backdoor option!)
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programmes
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success!
- Have a teammate going through a tough time? Lend them a hand through our internal Snap-a-wish programme! We'll work hard to make sure they get the support they need.
Company values
- We Are Kind - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Smart - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Creative - We gracefully manage ambiguity, cultivate innovation and demonstrate an insatiable desire to learn
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Articles
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(CEO)Graduated from Standford with a BS in Product Design.
Bobby Murphy
(CTO)Studied Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford.
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