Karat is transforming organizations around the world. We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead. At the core of Karat’s system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world.
Our Software Engineering team is dedicated to building the world’s most predictive, inclusive, and fair interviewing products for our clients and technical candidates alike.
What you will doAs a Senior Software Engineer at Karat, you'll own complex, technically demanding projects on our flagship interviewing platform and drive them end-to-end. You'll make significant architectural decisions, actively improve technical quality across the team's codebase beyond your own lane, and collaborate closely with engineering leadership to raise the bar on how we build.
This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.
- Embrace AI-assisted development as a core part of your workflow; stay current with emerging techniques and help evolve the team's practices as the field advances rapidly.
- Design and build sophisticated web applications across the full stack; own significant architectural decisions that ensure long-term maintainability and performance.
- Own and deliver complex, heavily ambiguous projects from design to release, independently resolving significant architectural questions and seeing work through to production.
- Proactively identify and address technical quality issues beyond your immediate project scope, looking across the team's systems to reduce risk and improve reliability.
- Mentor junior engineers, elevating the team's overall capability through knowledge sharing, code reviews, and hands-on guidance.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of Analysts, Data Scientists, Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to define and deliver product features.
- Champion engineering best practices, including testing strategy, performance optimization, and technical debt management.
- 7+ years of post-internship professional experience owning and delivering complex, full-stack web applications and distributed systems end-to-end in production
- Deep expertise in modern programming languages (Ruby, Python, React, TypeScript/JavaScript) with strong command of web frameworks and design patterns across the stack
- Strong experience with system architecture, microservices design, database optimization, and API development (REST and GraphQL)
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and scalable deployment technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring teammates and driving technical initiatives
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; proven ability to work with diverse stakeholders and translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Interest in technical interviewing, talent assessment, or edtech is a strong plus
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Statement of InclusivityIn keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.
We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at [email protected].
Skills Required
- 7+ years of post-internship professional experience
- Expertise in modern programming languages (Ruby, Python, React, TypeScript/JavaScript)
- Strong experience with system architecture and microservices
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
What We Do
The status quo for technical interviewing doesn’t meet the needs of candidates or hiring companies. Haphazard interview experiences, subjective evaluations, and lack of capacity and expertise mean too many companies miss their hiring goals and miss out on great software engineers. At Karat, it's our mission to create better outcomes for companies and candidates by making every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. Karat conducts first-round technical interviews on behalf of companies including Indeed, Atlassian, Intuit, Peloton, The New York Times and Wayfair. We do this through a community of Interview Engineers who are equipped with Karat's interviewing platform, battle-tested questions, and data-informed best practices. The result is highly predictive and fair interviews at scale that candidates truly enjoy. Karat has amassed the largest and most robust dataset of structured interview intelligence to produce never-before-seen hiring analytics. As the world continues to transition to virtual work, and the fairness of hiring practices in the tech industry come under greater scrutiny, Karat is uniquely positioned to be a valuable, strategic partner as companies transition to 100% remote hiring.
Why Work With Us
Karat is dedicated to unlocking life changing opportunities to create fairness and equity through technology. Our human centered approach to redefining the technical interview has created an incredible mission driven culture.
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