Harmonic is the startup discovery engine. We believe in innovation, entrepreneurs, and efficient capital markets. It pains us to see great startup opportunities consistently go undiscovered. So, we dedicated ourselves to mapping out the startup landscape and building the index and tools that ensure the most promising founders get found and funded.
The world's largest and most prolific venture capital firms rely on us to find and invest in the next Google, AirBnB, Uber, Stripe, and Anduril. We play a crucial part in ensuring hundreds of billions of dollars get routed efficiently and that the innovations the world would most benefit from materialize.
We’ve been growing steadily and need passionate driven people to help us get to the next level. If you want to work in a high-growth environment with some of the most talented folks on the planet and resonate with our values, read on.
About the Harmonic team
- Explore Working with Sang to understand decision-making processes related to the engineering function.
- Explore the Team Page to get acquainted with the rest of the company.
The role
What you'll do:
- Influence and execute the overall vision of Harmonic’s offerings by collaborating with Product & Design to create products that help customers discover startups.
- Translate the needs of our customers by deeply understanding their needs and innovating our product features and services to exceed their expectations, ultimately enhancing their experience.
- "Get Shit Done" by working on every layer of our stack, proactively troubleshooting, and solving any issues that stand in the way of our customers gaining maximum value from our product.
Role requirements:
- Track record of building highly performant, highly observable, and highly scalable systems
- 1-3 years of experience building scalable frontend and backend systems
- Obsessed about your craft (tech talks, articles, open source, GitHub PRs, side projects, etc.)
- Able to work across disciplines with the minimum process to organize work and create predictability in an unpredictable space
- Have experience taking the lead in planning and executing the development roadmap for software projects
Plus if...
- 1+ years of experience in an early-stage startup
- Experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs on top of large data sources
- Experience implementing web applications that manage large amounts of data
- Experience working in Python/strongly typed languages
Pay
$120-160k Salary + Equity depending on the level
Our stackThe Process
Here’s our interview process:
- Recruiter Screening: 30-45 mins
- Take Home Exam
- Technical Screening: 1 hr
- Three rounds of behavioral interviews with team: 45 mins each
- References
- 🩺 Top of the line health, dental and vision insurance, with 100% premium covered
- 📈 401k matching
- 🍜 Free lunch in office
- 🍣 Monthly team dinner (we have a lot of foodies) for each office
- 🚂 Commuter benefits
- 🧳 Quarterly company-wide offsites. Locations so far: Barcelona, Puerto Vallarta, Austin, & Salt Lake City
- 🌍 Offices in NYC, SF, & LA
Top Skills
What We Do
Harmonic is on mission to make the startup universe discoverable.
Today, Harmonic.ai is used by hundreds of VC’s like a16z, Greylock, and Google Ventures as well as GTM teams like Retool, Notion, Brex, and Superhuman to connect startups with the capital and resources that they need to drive growth. Our team is backed by top-tier investors like Craft, Sozo, Floodgate, SOMA, Teamworthy, AVG and many others.
Open roles: https://harmonic.ai/careers
