Senior Software Engineer

About Beautiful.ai

Beautiful.ai is changing the way the world presents by building fast, foolproof tools that enable anyone to tell visual stories that win. The Beautiful.ai team is a playful, driven, and passionate group of pet-lovers, video-gamers, and pickleball enthusiasts. With a globally-distributed remote team and a San Francisco-based office, we find unique opportunities to get to know each other personally, while delivering on our goals. Data-driven decision making and an outcomes-focused mindset are core to our way of working.

Today, Beautiful.ai equips 100,000+ happy paying customers, from start-ups to multinational Fortune 500 corporations, with a leading presentation software solution. Companies like SAP, HP, Rakuten, LIV Golf and more trust Beautiful.ai to tell their stories. We are a Series B company and have raised capital from prominent investors including Shasta Ventures, Trinity Ventures and First Round Capital and are led by our CTO/Founder, Mitch Grasso, who is a second-time founder in the presentation space.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining key features of our product, working across the full stack using JavaScript, Node.js, React, CSS, and MongoDB. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build scalable and performant solutions, while mentoring junior team members and driving best practices in both front-end and back-end development.

What you'll do:

• Design, develop, and maintain features across the full stack using JavaScript, Node.js, React, and MongoDB, with a focus on building scalable and high-performance solutions, as well as a delightful user experience.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate business requirements into technical solutions, balancing user needs with technical constraints.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges, ensuring that systems are efficient, reliable, and perform well at scale.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers, offering guidance and helping them grow in their technical skills while also conducting code reviews to maintain high-quality standards.
• Contribute to technical decisions by advocating for best practices, ensuring alignment with long-term goals, and collaborating with team members to implement solutions that drive product success.
• Contribute to platform improvements such as optimizing front-end performance and reliability, improving code quality, or enhancing the CI/CD pipeline.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents during on-call rotations, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery.

What we expect from you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). A Master’s degree is a plus.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering, with a product development focus.
• Strong hands-on experience with react, typescript, javascript, and full stack development is required.
• Proven track record of successful delivery of product features, from technical planning to implementation to successful completion.
• Solid product and analytical thinking, with the ability to work with product managers to evaluate tradeoffs, assess technical feasibility, and provide input on scope and prioritization based on complexity and effort.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bay Area candidates preferred, or open to occasional travel as needed.

Our tech stack

Client Side: React, Webpack, vanilla Typsescript/Javascript for SVG layout, rendering, and styling
Server Side: Node.js with Express for API and server side rendering, various distributed node.js microservices
Infrastructure on Google Cloud: App Engine, Firebase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Stackdriver, Storage

Benefits:

• Flexible Time-Off & Remote Work
  
• Health Insurance – 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees; 60–65% coverage for dependents.
  
• Retirement Plan – Comprehensive 401(k) program.
  
• Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options available.
  
• Equity Compensation – Competitive equity package with a 4-year vesting schedule.
  
• Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance – Coverage provided where applicable.
  
• Parental Leave – Inclusive leave for birthing and non-birthing parents; policies vary by state.
  
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO) – Paid day off to support a nonprofit or community cause.