Software Engineer - Product Growth

Working hours

Given that we are an all-remote company and hire almost anywhere in the world, we don’t have a location requirement for this role. However, your working hours must overlap with 8am-11am PST for at least 2 days/week.

Level

This job is an IC4. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.

Why this job is exciting

We are building a product-led, cloud-first growth motion, and the Product Growth team is critical to make Sourcegraph successful. Product Growth is a new team responsible for customer activation, onboarding, and adoption of Sourcegraph product in the customer's organization. The Product Growth team's main focus is shortening the time to value for our customers. Its current focus is building a signup and onboarding experience for Sourcegraph Cloud. 

As a software engineer on the Product Growth team, you will be at the forefront of our mission to build a Code Intelligence Platform [1], [2] working directly with future customers. You will be responsible for the Product Growth team's technical vision balancing the need to move quickly and iteratively and keeping a high bar for security, reliability, and quality. If you join us, we know you'll make a significant impact!

Within one month, you will…

• Meet with peers, stakeholders, and other members around the company to gain a sense of the team and the organization.
• Familiarize yourself with the product and the areas of focus the Growth team has.
• Work with current team members and leaders to solidify team mission and values.
• Deliver on your first initiative and measure the impact by tracking and looking at the data.
• Share your ideas for how we can continue to drive growth at Sourcegraph.

Within three months, you will…

• Build rapport with the team and become a technical lead and robust asynchronous communicator.
• Gain a more profound understanding of the needs of the product, design technical solutions, and drive their execution.
• Take ownership of the team's technical vision, influence the team's roadmap, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and other technical leaders within the engineering organization.

Within six months, you will…

• Be seen as a subject matter expert in Product Growth across the organization.
• Make a significant impact on cloud-first product-led growth at Sourcegraph.
• Participate in the interview process for other engineering candidates.

About you 

As part of our values-driven, all-remote core team, you'll have the opportunity to work on a wide array of technologies, delivering the best experience for new and potential customers. 

• You are passionate about digging into new tools, frameworks, and platforms.
• You have experience in a startup environment.
• You have a history of thriving in environments where experimentation and failure are celebrated.
• You are proactive, with a drive to identify opportunities for improvement and come up with creative solutions.
• You have a high level of comfort dealing with ambiguity and the ability to focus on the most impactful tasks.
• You have a deep passion for the web ecosystem.
• You have a strong desire to continually think about end-to-end user experiences, starting from discovery.
• You are an excellent communicator.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional development experience as a full-stack developer, including technical lead roles
• At least 6+ years includes working with TypeScript (or another typed language) to build and test high-quality code.
• Experience using React or another modern web framework
• 6+ years experience with a backend language. Familiar with Node.js, Golang, and Postgres or willing to learn.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs with high security, scalability, and reliability in mind
• Previous experience on growth teams or very iterative product development work: rapid prototyping, A/B testing, feature flags.
• You have demonstrated the ability to work effectively and ethically in a busy tech environment and respond quickly to changing priorities.
• You have solid analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills and a growth mindset. You are user-centric.
• You work independently, are biased for actions, make decisions and take the initiative.
• You have an eye and passion for well-designed interfaces and are familiar with UI principles.
• Previous startup or developer tools/platform experience.
• Previous experience with large-scale SaaS product and user journeys

Compensation

We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully focused on helping Sourcegraph succeed, not worried about paying bills. You will have the flexibility to work and live anywhere in the world (unless specified otherwise in the job description), and we’ll never take your location or current/past salary information into account when determining your compensation.  As an open and transparent company that values equitable and competitive compensation for everyone, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph Teammate. To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources and target the high-end of the range, ensuring that we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world.  

The target compensation for this role is $190,000 USD base

In addition to our cash compensation, we offer equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.

Interview process [~5.75 hour total interview] 

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after all!

Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…

• [30m] Recruiter Screen
• [30m] Hiring Manager Screen
• [60m] Resume Deep Dive

Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team…

• [60m] Coding Skills Interview
• [60m] Architecture Interview
• [45m] Cross-functional Team Collaboration

Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you meet cross-functional partners and gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…

• [30m] Values Interview
• [30m] Leadership Interview 
• We check references & make you an offer!

And that’s it! Please note - you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to meet during the interview process.