Instawork

Instawork

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$200kDetected 37 days ago
PythonReactVue.jsAngularReact NativeDjangoBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewLLMsRobotics

About the role

  • Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI.
  • We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies-and we're just getting started!

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally - Work closely with Product, Design, and Data partners to ensure project alignment from concept through deployment.
  • Drive Personal Growth - Proactively seek opportunities to sharpen skills through code reviews and architectural deep-dives with senior engineers.
  • Own Features End-to-End - Drive feature development from coding through deployment, monitoring, QA, and iteration based on user feedback.
  • Contribute Technical Input - Provide input on team technical design, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalable solutions.
  • Product Delivery - Collaborate with PMs and designers to translate customer needs into technical solutions and shape product requirements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience with a focus on high-growth product environments
  • Strong coding and architectural proficiency-you prioritize moving quickly down the right path to ship reliable code daily
  • Full-stack proficiency-comfortable across backend services, APIs, and modern frontends (React, Angular, or Vue.js)
  • Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.

Nice to have

  • Fluency in our core stack (Django, Python, React, and React Native)-accelerates time-to-impact and onboarding
  • Experience with advanced deployment patterns-leveraging feature flags, config-driven behavior, and progressive rollouts
  • Exposure to LLM-based systems-includes prompt engineering, tool-call architectures, or agent workflows
  • Domain experience in two-sided marketplace or recruitment platforms

Compensation

  • The base salary for this position is $170,000 - $200,000.
  • At least 8 paid company holidays annually

Benefits

  • This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
  • A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Commuter stipend
  • Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
  • Flexible spending plans
  • Always Be Learning
  • This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:

Company info

  • We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don't shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.

This listing is sourced directly from Instawork's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.