Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - El Paso, TX, USA

Role overview

Own meaningful engineering work on the central services and cross-platform SDKs supporting an audio reading experience for articles, online documents, and books. This senior role spans product planning, cloud backend development, API quality, and performance improvement rather than focusing on a single isolated feature. The El Paso, Texas listing describes a high-growth remote team that values independent execution and asynchronous communication.

Responsibilities

- Coordinate with product teams to frame projects, reduce unnecessary scope, and shorten the feedback loop with customers. - Make sound integration and user-experience tradeoffs while implementing solutions through a shared cross-platform SDK. - Increase loading performance and parsing quality by improving system abstractions, algorithms, and existing functionality. - Deliver Kotlin cloud functions, compact backend services, and background jobs for the core platform.

Requirements

- Evaluate technical changes systemically and favor straightforward architectures that are easier to operate and evolve. - Work quickly without sacrificing judgment, creating multiple options and identifying what is ready to ship versus what needs more time. - Demonstrate focus and self-management while adapting to changing priorities in a busy remote setting. - Collaborate across disciplines and negotiate product or design decisions with designers, marketers, and product managers.

Nice to have

- Kotlin Multiplatform expertise is preferred. Candidates coming directly from Java are still relevant for the role. - Experience building or operating services on Google Cloud Platform.

Benefits and work setup

- Contribute in a fast-growing environment with meaningful influence over engineering and product outcomes. - Join an entrepreneurial group that encourages initiative, intuition, and sensible risk-taking. - Work with a hands-off management approach that supports concentration and professional autonomy. - The United States salary range is $140,000–$200,000 annually, with bonus and stock eligibility depending on experience. - Build products that help millions of people access information, including users with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision, concussions, autism, and other learning or accessibility needs.