Senior Software Engineer

Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: United States, Canada

Job Description:

Software Engineer, LX Team - December 2023

Who We Are

Highlight is an agile in-home product insights platform focusing on consumer product goods innovation. Highlight sends curated discovery boxes to its engaged community in exchange for feedback via our research-optimized app. Our platform boasts 90% survey completion rates, can get products in tester’s hands in days, and seamlessly collects qualitative feedback at scale.

Highlight is a women-owned, minority-owned startup growing to work with innovation and insights teams at companies like P&G, Mondelez, Nestle, Purell, Mars, and more. Highlight has brought together a community of brands and consumers united in a mission to create better products for all and democratize access to data for both emerging and enterprise brands.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Project Logistics team. The Project Logistics team works to enable our internal and external customers by developing on our market research platform that connects brands and customers.

Your Impact

• Work within a team following the Empowered Product Teams model

• Assume responsibility for features and functionalities that directly contribute to the overall business impact

• Adopt a test-driven development methodology, demonstrating a strong commitment to excellence and quality

• Influence foundational technical decisions

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver a delightful customer experience 

• Embrace an experimental and resourceful approach to assist the team in making well-informed, data-driven decisions

• Craft scalable solutions while building software for growth

About You

• 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role

• Experience working on product minded teams with end to end ownership of the product

• Hold a bias toward action and delivery

• Have an understanding of user centricity and delivering user value

• Thrive in a deeply collaborative environment (designers, PMs, engineers and stakeholders)

• Passionate about quality, security and SRE

• Proactive and driven individual with a keen attention to detail, strong analytical capabilities and excels in both independent and team-oriented environments

• Experience working with any of our tech stack: Go, C#, React, Typescript, AWS, GraphQL, Postgre DB, and DataDog

• Prior experience working in fast paced startups is a plus

Product Development Values

• We are deeply curious

• We are data driven

• We are customer obsessed

• We thrive on big ideas and experimentation

• We are intentional and thoughtful

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with 100% premium covered

• Unlimited PTO

• Flexible, remote WFH culture

• Access to the iconic Hearst Tower & its facilities in NYC (should you choose to be in person)

• Compensation:

At Highlight, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to succeed. We are committed to building a team that comes from a wide range of backgrounds - including but not limited to - race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status. If you’re someone who can think rigorously and isn’t afraid to challenge assumptions, join us.