Great interviews are engineered. Come help Karat make every interview predictive, fair and enjoyable.
The status quo for technical interviewing doesn’t meet the needs of candidates or hiring companies. Haphazard interview experiences, subjective evaluations, and lack of capacity and expertise mean too many companies miss their hiring goals and miss out on great software engineers. At Karat, it's our mission to create better outcomes for companies and candidates by making every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable.
Karat conducts first-round technical interviews on behalf of companies including Indeed, Atlassian, Intuit, Peloton, The New York Times and Wayfair. We do this through a community of Interview Engineers who are equipped with Karat's interviewing platform, battle-tested questions, and data-informed best practices.
The result is highly predictive and fair interviews at scale that candidates truly enjoy. Karat has amassed the largest and most robust dataset of structured interview intelligence to produce never-before-seen hiring analytics.
As the world continues to transition to virtual work, and the fairness of hiring practices in the tech industry come under greater scrutiny, Karat is uniquely positioned to be a valuable, strategic partner as companies transition to 100% remote hiring.
Founded in 2014, Karat is a privately held and venture-funded company based in Seattle.
Engineering at Karat
As a Senior Software Engineer at Karat, you will work on an exciting mission with a highly collaborative team and relatable product. As an vital member of our growing company, you will work closely with leaders and members of other teams, contribute to team culture and practices, and mentor members of the product team. We're looking for individuals hungry to take ownership of new projects and initiatives, making a significant impact on the product and beyond. You will work on a team to build products serving engineers, candidates, and internal teams as we scale. Your work will be the bridge between users, providing the backbone of our platform.
Core Responsibilities
- Lay the foundation for new systems while revamping the existing.
- Deliver the projects that fall into your team’s area on time and with quality.
- Own projects from design to release, including communication with stakeholders.
- Developing web applications using HTTP, Rest and GraphQL.
- Lay the foundation for new systems while revamping the existing codebase.
- Support junior engineers through direct mentorship and suggestions of process improvements.
- Remain flexible enough to handle all of the unknowns that come with fast growth in the company.
- Write clean and scalable services, components and APIs and the backend that our products depend on.
- Collaborate with our cross-functional team to define features and build powerful and easy-to-use products and customer-facing workflow tools.
- Help develop effective processes for ensuring our products have high quality code and minimal defects.
About You
- 5-7 years developing and launching web applications/systems into a production environment.
- Experience in at least one of Ruby, Python, or similar language.
- Comfortable in a Unix/Linux workflow.
- Prior experience designing and building backend services and APIs or frontend components.
- Strong ability to effectively identify and pursue challenging problems.
- Interviewing, teaching, and/or mentoring experience as it will help you relate to our mission and culture.
- UI/ UX experience using AJAX and modern frameworks like React as well as plain JavaScript is a strong plus.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team
Benefits of joining Karat:
While doing meaningful work is rewarding in itself, we also offer the following programs and benefits for all our full-time employees:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Medical / dental / vision insurance
- Flexible vacation and paid company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- State-of-the-art equipment for your work station
Statement of Non-Discrimination:
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,”we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.
We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.