Hello!

We’re a tiny startup building a product that aims to be used by every software team in the world. Ambitious work is fun, join us.

TLDR

– Pay range is $100k-200k depending on skill, 0.2-1.5% stock options.
– We work together in SF. But, remote is okay if you have been remote in the past and have a lot of experience.
– You would be Terrastruct’s 4th engineer (5th if you include founder/CEO, who’s like 60% engineer these days). You’ll get a comfortable salary, but the stock options at this stage of a high-growth tech startup are/will be worth at least 10x more. It’s also an opportunity 1000x rarer than the positions the FAANG recruiter has been spamming you about.

Experience

No explicit experience required. We just care about throughput/results. If you don’t have a stellar track record of success due to lack of opportunity but have high aptitude and the drive/ambition to work hard to achieve similar level of throughput as your teammates, we’re open to it!

Interviews

We appreciate that interviews are an investment of your time and emotions. Every step of the interview, from application to offer, you’ll hear back within 24 hour tops. If the onsite requires you take PTO from your current job, we’ll pay you for the day. If we decide not to move forward after an interview, we’ll let you know the concrete feedback to help you with your search, not a canned response.

Interviews are 1. 30 min phone chat with an engineer (we just round robin). 2. pair programming session on Zoom, 3. hangout and do some more programming and discussions with us for a day. No algorithms.

If you’re past 3, you can optionally 4. interview us. Come up with technical challenges, ask cultural stuff that’s important to you, whatever you want to do to make sure we’re a fit for you.

If you’re around SF/Bay area and have interest but aren’t convinced to interview, happy to meet for coffee/lunch and just chat. At worst, you’ll hear an interesting vision for the future that I’ve been thinking about since 2017.

Tech Stack

We use JS/TS React/Redux on Frontend, and Go, Terraform, AWS, Postgres on Backend. Just telling you to show it’s reasonable and modern, don’t care if you know the languages or tech, that part’s easy to learn.

Why us

No managers/pm’s
Autonomy. Want to be left alone and just fix things around the codebase? Talk to customers and work closely with them to build features? Frontend and want to do some backend, or ML? We’ll support you to do whatever gives you energy.
We prioritize sustainability for the long run. I used to work at a company where on all-hands days, they served deep dish pizza. It was awesome, but everyone just KO’d right after. We have nutritious meals that don’t put you to sleep right after, get around 45mins to an hour of exercise every day (lift weights, sports, jump rope, etc), take days off when you’re feeling out of it.
We’re here to have fun and get career fulfillment by achieving big things. We’re confident you’ll get that here; in fact, if ever things start feeling boring or like you’re stagnating, we’re pretty well-networked in SV and we’ll help you transition to your next role by doing our best to get you internal referrals to places you want to go.
Top of the line benefits (health, dental, vision, 401k). Gym, sports. Breakfast, lunch, dinner covered in office.
We’ve raised only a modest $2M to date, and have room for 2 more engineers before raising our larger round in 2022. EDIT 01/03/22: 1 spot filled, only looking for 1 more.
We have a clear vision and traction, so we promise we won’t pull a fast one on you and pivot to crypto.
Backed by great investors, high growth company, something something rocketship, change the world etc, shape the future of our company etc you’ve heard it all before. We don’t think these platitudes do anything for (smart) people. We’ll be 100% genuine with you and respect your time; you can tell me what you’re looking for and I’ll give an honest answer, not a rehearsed sales pitch.

Why (maybe) not us

No managers/pm’s
No titles. You can put whatever you want on your LinkedIn or conferences and I can give future references on how you were a great Lead Principal Engineer Level VI, but internally, we’re all just software engineer.
Unstructured career progression. We don’t really do personal goal setting, promotions, feedback cycles. At our stage, we can just be candid with each other all the time.

Misc

We can sponsor H1B