Software Engineer; Backend leaning

Position: Software Engineer (Backend leaning)
Velt’s platform is trusted by industry leaders including Pendo, Runway, Classwallet and is shaping the way users collaborate and work together online.

We are looking for a passionate Fullstack Engineer to build 0-1 products. Your work will power critical experiences on world‑class products and brands.

What you need to succeed:

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

• Strong engineering fundamentals

• Thrive with autonomy, own the details and project manage your own work

• Overall SWE experience of at least 3 years

What you will do

• Own projects like microservice architecture, usage analytics, APIs, integrations, webhooks, AI systems etc.

We are looking for the following four fits:

1. Startup stage fit:

• You have experience working independently with abstract problem statements.

• You have experience thriving in an unstructured and ambiguous environment.

• You get excited about just delivering - whether it’s a juicy challenging problem or a dry boring problem.

• You have the ambition to be the best in your craft.

2. Problem fit:

• You are excited about the problem we are working on and have an opinion about the problem/solution.

3. Experience fit:

• You have overall SWE experience of at least 3 years.

• You have worked at at least one company for >2 years.

• You have prior relevant experience of at least 1 year building one of these:
- microservice architecture, usage analytics, APIs, integrations, webhooks, AI systems etc.

4. Culture fit:

• You prioritize speed over perfection.

• You can explain difficult concepts to a 5 yr old.

• You are kind and can find common ground in difficult scenarios.

• You are hungry to learn and grow extremely fast.

Why you should join us

We are looking for someone who can hustle and is excited to go all in. This is not a 9-5 job. It's fast paced and demanding. We are working on very high impact products. This requires high velocity, low ego & lots of hunger. At Velt:

• You will shape our engineering practices, products, company culture & business.

• You will get equity and participate in the success of the company.

• You will work with an outstanding team.

• You will learn and grow at an accelerated pace.

• You will create your best work & shape the future of every shared experience on the web.

• Your code will get shipped to end users as soon as daily.

• Your work will matter. You will have a direct large impact on the company and our customers.

Submit the following when you apply:

• Why are you looking for a change right now?

• What excites you about the problem space and what is your point of view on that?

• Why are you the right fit?

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