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 Staff Software Engineer at Karat, you'll lead the most complex, cross-team technical initiatives at the company and shape the direction of our engineering organization. You'll drive significant architectural improvements to our platform, set the technical vision for the systems your teams depend on, and bring Karat's technical voice into the room with clients, building trust, shaping product direction, and ensuring our most important relationships are grounded in deep technical credibility. Your impact will be felt not just in the code you ship, but in how the entire engineering organization builds.
This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.
- Embrace AI-assisted development as a core part of your workflow; lead the team's thinking on how emerging techniques should shape Karat's engineering practices at scale.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team technical initiatives, navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and driving projects through to production even when product direction is unclear.
- Own significant areas of Karat's technical stack, proactively identifying and proposing improvements that meaningfully advance developer experience and end-user outcomes.
- Design significant architectural changes to the platform, evaluating trade-offs at scale and ensuring decisions serve both current needs and long-term organizational health.
- Bring Karat's technical voice into the room with clients, building trust, shaping product direction, and ensuring our most important relationships are grounded in deep technical credibility.
- Mentor and elevate engineers across levels, contributing to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Champion engineering best practices across the organization, including testing strategy, performance optimization, and technical debt management.
- 10+ years of post-internship professional experience leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale, complex web applications and distributed systems in production; a demonstrated record of organizational-level technical impact
- Deep expertise in modern programming languages (Ruby, Python, React, TypeScript/JavaScript) with mastery of web frameworks, design patterns, and system design at scale
- Expert-level experience with microservices architecture, database optimization, and API design at scale (REST and GraphQL)
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and scalable deployment technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Proven technical leadership across teams and initiatives, with a track record of driving organizational-level technical improvements
- Comfort engaging directly with clients or external stakeholders, with the ability to represent complex technical work clearly and build trust in a client-facing setting
- 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
- 10+ years of post-internship professional experience
- Expert-level experience with microservices architecture, database optimization, and API design
- Deep expertise in Ruby, Python, React, TypeScript/JavaScript
- Comfort engaging directly with clients or external stakeholders
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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