Tavern Research

Tavern Research

Engineer II

Chicago, IL · Mid

Sponsorship not specified$147k-$172kDetected 20 days ago
JavaScriptPythonData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewDockerKubernetesData EngineeringLLMsControls5G/LTEResearchLeadershipCollaborationProblem SolvingAdaptability

About the role

  • You'll work on problems of moderate to wide scope, sometimes straightforward, sometimes full of unknowns, and you'll be trusted to navigate both.
  • That might mean stitching together APIs to move faster, integrating LLMs into new tools, or diagnosing why a data pipeline that ran perfectly yesterday is suddenly producing nonsense.
  • This role begins as a high-impact individual contributor position, but we value engineers who can mentor teammates, coordinate small project efforts, and grow into team leadership over time.

Responsibilities

  • Some days, you'll extend production systems to support new workflows; other days, you'll prototype ideas that could become our next core product.
  • You'll collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to influence how we build, not just what we build.
  • While remaining hands-on day to day, you'll be expected to anticipate bottlenecks, design with scale in mind, and ensure technical debt doesn't outpace our velocity.
  • Build and extend product features, balancing reliability with experimentation.
  • Own and evolve core product features and systems, contributing to architectural decisions and carrying work through to production.
  • Support the growth of teammates through code reviews, technical guidance, and setting a strong example for code quality and testing.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering peers, and occasionally clients, to ensure solutions solve the right problems.
  • Weigh trade-offs between speed, scale, and reliability, and help drive technical decisions that align with product and business goals.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional engineering experience, with a track record of owning projects end to end and supporting systems in production with increasing independence.
  • Hands-on experience supporting production systems, with a track record of debugging issues and strengthening monitoring and alerting over time.
  • you don't need a degree to work here.

Skills

  • builder, debugger, tester, occasional mad scientist.

Compensation

  • $146,500-$172,000 + Equity About Tavern Research Tavern Research is a political tech startup building tools and insights to help our customers win elections and make better, evidence-based decisions.
  • We specialize in scaling expert human work, such as content generation and survey research to support thoughtful, data-driven civic engagement.
  • We're a venture-backed, mission-driven, fast-moving, and mostly technical team focused on supporting campaigns and organizations working to strengthen democratic participation.
  • We are experimental by design and expect every team member to continuously improve how they work using new tools and technology.
  • Everything else is on our website.
  • If you still have questions, let us know when you apply!

Benefits

  • Benefits Premium health insurance Unlimited PTO Office closed for all federal holidays 401k match Equity Tavern Research is an
  • You're past the "learning the ropes" stage and ready to own projects from concept to deployment, while still eager to keep leveling up.
  • If building fast, shipping often, and learning from the weird and unexpected sounds exciting, we encourage you to apply.

Company info

  • You just need to be good at the things we're asking from you.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer.
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