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Posted about 2 months ago
Full Time
$175,000 Annually
Silkline- Early Engineer – 4 openings
Salary: up to $225k for top talent
17.5% fee
Location: Seattle, WA (Udistrict area, don’t have exact address)
About Silkline:
Why join?
As an early engineer, you will play a critical role in setting Silkline’s technical direction. You will be hands-on, building our early product and talking directly with our initial customers and users. From the start, it is critical that you can build a 0-1 product with great UI/UX. As we grow, you will own and lead the architectural roadmap that will lay the foundation for the Silkline platform. Your technical leadership will be a key factor in supporting and growing our engineering and product teams.
Looking back on your first 12 months at Silkline, you will have...
Must haves:
Nice to haves:
Things to avoid:
Notes:
Salary: up to $225k for top talent
17.5% fee
Location: Seattle, WA (Udistrict area, don’t have exact address)
About Silkline:
- Silkline is the platform that top hardware buying organizations use to seamlessly:
- Collaborate with suppliers
- Track requests, RFQs, quotes, orders, and more
- Monitor team and vendor performance
- Have 30 customers
- 5 employees right now
- Total funding: 5.8 million
Why join?
- Repeat founders with deep industry experience and strong start-up backgrounds
- Strong Seed raise from Origin Ventures (top Chicago VC) and Forward Deployed Venture Capital (Palantir spin out)
- Opportunity help power the re-industrialisation of America and partner closely with a range of customers trying to split the atom to delivering the next defence breakthroughs
- Unique ability to have extreme ownership over large technical parts of the stack and shape the team culture
As an early engineer, you will play a critical role in setting Silkline’s technical direction. You will be hands-on, building our early product and talking directly with our initial customers and users. From the start, it is critical that you can build a 0-1 product with great UI/UX. As we grow, you will own and lead the architectural roadmap that will lay the foundation for the Silkline platform. Your technical leadership will be a key factor in supporting and growing our engineering and product teams.
Looking back on your first 12 months at Silkline, you will have...
- Built and led the delivery of the early versions of the Silkline platform, spearheading pilot programs at initial customers
- Worked with the team to think through strategy and the evolution of the business
- Influenced new product and feature design while defining a long-term technical strategy aligned with industry best practices
- Designed and implemented platform integrations with outside APIs, partners, and cloud infrastructure
- Built something scrappily to show customer value, so that we have now earned the right to re-architect for scale.
Must haves:
- 3+ years of experience as product-minded software engineer with either top-tier start-up or educational backgrounds (must be very strong technically)
- Prior experience at a high pedigree start-up (fast growing, tier 1 VC backed, etc)
- Strong product technical fundamentals with experience across the stack in modern tech such as Typescript (preferred), React, Next.js, Python or Go
- Demonstrated track record of fast promotions and extreme ownership
- Ability to lean in cross-functionally whilst remaining highly product minded
- Significant/demonstrated interest in supply chains and adjacent industries
- Strong communication skills and ability to interface well with customers
- Clear signals of ownership and taking the initiative to fix problems
- MUST BE US citizen or green card holder and excited to be ONSITE 5 days a week in Seattle
Nice to haves:
- Prior experience in manufacturing or supply chain operations preferred
- CS degree from a top 30 university
- Experience building out various API integrations including various ERP systems
Things to avoid:
- frequent career shifts or recent management, need builders
- week technical skills (avoid C-based or other lower-skilled engineers)
Notes:
- Tech stack: Typescript, React, Next.js
- Interview process:
- Co-founder screen – 30 minutes
- Tech screen – 1 hour (it says 1 hour but I’m assuming more time than this), half take home exercise and half live discussion to continue the project
- Final on-site (3-4 hours) – 3 stages including a systems design interview (problem solving and product introduction), technical coding challenge, and lunch/drinks with the team)
