Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

We’re looking for a senior software engineer (full stack) with 3+ years of experience in building browser extensions and web applications. If you have a keen interest in integrating machine learning models for personalized content recommendation, you could be an excellent fit for our team!

About the Client:

This company is a social web highlighter that people use to highlight and organize quotes and ideas from the web seamlessly, and access other like-minded people’s learning simultaneously. With generative AI, we aim to offer personalized outputs such as a writing assistant, research assistant, personalized summary, digital twins, and more.

• Available Applications: Explore our Chrome Extension and Safari Extension. We are also excited to be in the process of building a mobile/tablet app, using GraphQL with Rust for our native iOS and Android applications.
• Media Exposure: We are featured in several media such as Forbes, The Economic Times, Make Use Of, PC Gamer, Ness Labs, Aurelius Tjin’s YouTube, UC Berkeley’s Blog, and more.
• Team Structure: Join our tight-knit team of three, comprising a co-founder, a software engineer, and a design & backend expert, as we work to rewrite and strengthen our browser extensions and web applications.

Why are they building the company?

• Mission: To democratize access to other people’s learning and experiences that they have collected throughout their lives as a utilitarian legacy. As Glasp stands for "Greatest Legacy Accumulated as Shared Proof", we want to visualize one’s contribution to human knowledge history.
• Vision: To provide access to the highlighted world’s information in one click.

What you will be doing:

• Spearhead the rewriting and strengthening of our browser extension and web application.
• Build native mobile/tablet apps for both iOS and Android with GraphQL and Rust.
• Incorporate basic ML for building a personalized recommendation system.

Experience that they're looking for:

• Proven experience building web applications and browser extensions using Javascript, TypeScript, NextJS, and other modern frameworks.
• Experience in building native mobile/tablet apps for both iOS and Android.
• Familiarity with Firebase/Firestore, Typescript, and Python.
• Basic knowledge in AI/ML for recommendation systems is a plus!
• Ideally located in San Francisco, but remote work is welcome from any time zone, with a daily standup at 8 PM PT.

Benefits:

• Compensation: $500-5000 USD/month
• Enjoy a flexible and collaborative remote working environment.
• Be part of a team that values constant communication and daily syncs for fast and efficient teamwork.
• Benefit from a 3-month probation period to ensure a mutually beneficial partnership.