What you'll Do

• Build 0→1 products: Create new services, features, and user experiences from scratch — often starting with rough prototypes and evolving them into scalable, production-ready systems.
• Work through ambiguity: Take loosely defined, abstract problem spaces and transform them into clear technical and architectural approaches.
• Partner deeply with product & design: Participate in customer discovery, sketch solutions, propose alternatives, challenge assumptions, and help define what valuable and delightful looks like.
• Experiment rapidly: Build POCs, run technical spikes, validate ideas quickly, and iterate based on real customer feedback.
• Influence product direction: Bring an engineering-driven perspective to what we build, how we build it, and what tradeoffs are worth making at early stages.
• Design and build scalable systems once we validate the direction, balancing speed with long-term maintainability.
• Raise the technical bar: Contribute to architectural discussions, coding standards, best practices, and mentoring other engineers.
• Own quality end-to-end: From early prototypes to robust production code, you care deeply about reliability, performance, and customer experience.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of software engineering experience shipping real products in fast-moving environments.
• Proven success building new products or highly exploratory features (0→1, startups, innovation labs, greenfield initiatives).
• Comfort working with high ambiguity and incomplete information — you can define direction, propose solutions, and move work forward without waiting for perfect specs.
• Strong customer empathy and interest in learning directly from users.
• Fluency in full-stack development (or strong backend experience paired with solid product instincts), with hands-on experience in Python/Django, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and PostgreSQL.
• Solid understanding of system design, APIs, performance, and scalable architecture.
• Ability to balance speed vs. quality — you know when to build scrappy and when to build durable.
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to collaborate across disciplines.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• You’ll help define a brand-new product experience and shape its technical foundation.
• You’ll work in a space where engineering has a huge voice in product direction.
• You’ll operate at the intersection of creativity, customer needs, and deep technical work.
• The problems are meaningful, the ambiguity is real, and your impact will be visible from day one.

Benefits

• (US-ONLY) 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents
• Flexible vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge
• (US-ONLY) 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future
• Newest Apple products to help you do your best work
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ. ERGs directly support our company-wide DEI goals as a space for developing and retaining diverse talent

Notice to Prospective Candidates:

• Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted.
• We are aware of active recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name, in which individuals pose as our recruiters and post fake remote job openings and make fake job offers on the Internet. Please note, we will never do the following:Attempt to correspond with a candidate using a free web-based account, such as an email address that ends in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.
• Make an offer of employment without conducting multiple rounds of interviews face-to-face using secure video-conferencing technology.
• Ask candidates to cash checks to buy equipment on behalf of CaptivateIQ.
• Ask candidates to make a payment in order to be considered for a position.
• Make early requests for candidates' personal information such as date of birth, passport details, credit card numbers, bank details and social security number, etc.
• Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime.

154500 - 224540 USD a year