Senior Software Engineer, Data and Integrations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of Elicit's scholarly search and data platform, ensuring its coverage, freshness, quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Convert customer and business requirements into technical plans in collaboration with product teams, sales, and partners.

• Integrate new evidence sources into Elicit for LLM-based functionalities while maintaining structure, citations, and provenance.

• Develop secure, rights-aware integrations tailored for enterprise clients and content partners.

• Transform access, privacy, isolation, and auditability needs into actionable product features.

• Guide features from initial concepts to production across frontend, backend, and data layers.

• Deliver small incremental releases with staged rollouts, comprehensive monitoring, and rollback strategies.

• Oversee the operations of what you create, track usage, and manage integration complexities.

• Develop product features beyond integrations, ensuring the data platform is user-friendly for engineers.

• Utilize coding agents regularly and meticulously review their outputs.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering.

• Proven experience in ownership of production systems and independent architectural decision-making.

• Proficient in Python; live coding will be part of the interview process.

• Familiarity with TypeScript; experience with React is advantageous.

• Background in designing, debugging, and optimizing distributed data pipelines.

• Experience with Spark or other comparable distributed systems.

• Strong SQL skills.

• Practical understanding of partitioning, joins, columnar formats, and the impact of data layout on performance and costs.

• Experience in integrating complex external data, including APIs, bulk exports, file drops, schema changes, rate limits, partial failures, and overlapping records.

• Commitment to data quality, entity resolution, provenance, and observability.

• Proven experience in delivering user-facing features from start to finish.

• Product judgment that links infrastructure efforts to researcher capabilities.

• At least one year of experience in an early-stage or growth-stage company.

• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Pragmatic use of coding agents without compromising quality.

• Willingness to travel for quarterly in-person offsites.

• Ability to work with time zone overlap between GMT and GMT-8.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity offered for all positions, featuring employee-friendly 10-year exercise periods.

• Flexible work arrangements: choose between the Oakland office or remote work with time zone alignment between GMT and GMT-8.

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance fully covered for you.

• Generous coverage for family insurance needs.

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) / Health Savings Account (HSA) options.

• Generous vacation policy with a minimum recommendation of 20 days per year.

• Paid company holidays.

• Monthly wellbeing stipend of $200.

• 401K plan with a 6% employer matching contribution.

• Provision of a new Mac and a $1,000 budget for workstation or home office setup in the first year.

• Annual $500 budget for workstation or home office expenses thereafter.

• $1,000 quarterly budget for AI experimentation and learning initiatives.

• Access to a team administrative assistant for personal and work-related tasks.

• Participation in quarterly in-person team retreats or offsites.