Senior Software Engineer

Lattice is on a mission to build cultures where employees and their companies thrive. In an age where employees have more choice than ever before, businesses that put employees first are winning – and Lattice is building the tools to empower those people centric companies. Lattice is a people management platform that offers performance reviews, employee engagement surveys, real-time feedback, weekly check-ins, goal setting, and career planning in a way that allows companies to focus on employee development, growth, and engagement – yielding stronger employee retention, performance, and impact to the bottom line. Since launching in 2016 we have grown to over 2,750+ customers globally, including brands like Slack, Pinterest, Reddit, and Asana.

We’re a small and impactful team of software engineers continuously working to improve our product and our craft. We use a modern, cutting-edge tech stack and love experimenting with new technologies to create our products. We work highly cross-functionally in partnership with our Sales, Customer Success, Product and Design teams to shape the product we support.

You have 5+ years of professional experience writing and maintaining production-level applications.

• You’ve worked with a modern programming language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, etc.
• You’re no stranger to SQL—you know how to efficiently model data and write performant queries in a relational database like PostgreSQL.
• You know the ins-and-outs of maintaining and scaling an application actively serving customers in production.
• You seek out the root cause when debugging software defects, and champion improvements that prevent future issues.

You’re a great communicator and collaborator.

• You take care to write code that your colleagues will also own, understand, and maintain.
• You’re clear and concise in explaining your thought process and in enumerating the tradeoffs made in your work.
• You work well with designers and product managers to come up with optimal solutions. 

You enjoy taking an active role in the development process.

• You love mentoring and supporting other software engineers who are newer to the industry.
• You have experience taking the lead in planning and executing the development roadmap for software projects.

Responsibilities

• You’ll build software to help companies build cultures in which their employees thrive.
• You’ll work with other engineers to build and own products across a modern tech stack. Our current stack includes React, Relay Modern, GraphQL, Node, and PostgreSQL. We rely on AWS to host our infrastructure.
• You’ll independently lead the execution of complex projects, including those that require cross-functional collaboration with product managers and designers.
• You’ll provide substantial mentorship to less experienced colleagues, helping to refine their technical craft and expand their knowledge.
• You’ll make contributions to our engineering practices, identifying and evangelizing improvements to improve our team output.