Senior Software Engineer

About Us:

AkitaBox is a Madison based startup with about 40 employees. We were founded in August of 2015 by a nuclear engineer, a building technology guru and a lifelong salesman who had a vision to advance the built environment to improve the lives of others. Our software-as-a-service product helps building managers and operators automate their manual maintenance processes, saving them time, money, and likely a few choice words. With our ridiculously easy to use software interface, phenomenal customer success and efficient implementation; our product is selling faster than a newly launched frontier AI model. If you’re looking for a startup company that values transparency, empathy, personal AND professional growth, but still knows how to have some fun - we’re the company for you. We’re disrupting the world’s largest market - the world you and we live in. Our team is expanding, and we want you to help us continue our growth.

What we will do for you:

We practice the golden rule - we treat you as you want to be treated. We only hire people we trust (seriously it’s written in our core values), so from day one, you’ll be treated as an expert with valid opinions. You’ll work with us, not for us. We want to help you achieve your goals, while you help us achieve ours. We have a relaxed and flexible small business work environment with tons of opportunity for growth and upward mobility. We’ve also got you covered with full health benefits, vacation, and paid holidays. In short, we let you be… well... You!

• Awarded - Top Workplaces
• Compensation will be a Competitive Base 
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible Schedule

Who you are:

You have a passion to work collaboratively and continuously learn.  You want to deliver a balance of sound engineering and help develop, design and execute ideas into creative solutions. You want to contribute to a company, find fulfillment in the work you’re doing and see the results of your efforts in real time. You’ll fit in here if you’re hardworking, find enjoyment in developing ideas  and want to be part of an awesome team that loves to celebrate a win!

Why Join Us?:

You will be instrumental in developing, designing, and owning new products and features from the ground up. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape our architecture, integrate next-generation AI capabilities into our platform, and directly drive our technical roadmap as we scale.

What you’ll do:

As one of our Senior Software Engineers, you’ll play a critical role in part of our team structure. You will help to make what matters most to our customers and users of AkitaBox when it is needed most. 

• Architect and lead the development of scalable solutions, making high-level technical decisions
• Translate business needs into robust technical requirements and epic plans
• Implement scalable, secure, low-latency and highly available web applications and APIs
• Design, build, debug, and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable, and readable code
• Execute full software development lifecycle
• Leverage AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate the software development life cycle while applying rigorous verification to ensure code quality and prevent 'AI slop'
• Follow industry standards in securing applications and data
• Perform validation and verification testing
• Write automated integration and unit tests
• Perform code reviews and offer constructive feedback
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Balance completed tasks vs implementing a perfect/elegant solution
• Participate in and help evolve our agile processes and sprint planning to improve team velocity and quality
• Elevate the team with creative and critical thinking
• Mentor and guide the broader team to elevate collective technical capabilities

Requirements

Candidates who not only understand what it takes to be a software engineer but to also work together as a team to develop creative solutions. 

• 5+ years of experience in SaaS development, with a track record of successfully designing, building, and maintaining products in production
• Expert-level proficiency in the full stack (TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, Prisma) and object-oriented design; openness to similar modern frameworks is welcome
• Proven ability in AI-assisted development, specifically managing AI harnesses, optimizing prompts, and maintaining code quality while detecting and remediating 'AI slop'
• Strong grasp of modern engineering fundamentals, including automated testing (unit/integration), CI/CD pipelines, Git/GitHub, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/containers)
• Self-driven and communicative professional with excellent creative problem-solving skills, adept at thriving in a fast-paced, collaborative team

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience designing, developing, deploying, observing, and maintaining:
  • Native applications, especially with Flutter
  • Relational database and schema to third normal form
  • Analytical data pipelines and star schema, especially with dbt and Snowflake
  • AWS infrastructure, especially with Terraform
• Solid understanding of UI/UX best practices and design systems (e.g., Material Design), with a strong eye for visual hierarchy and consistent spacing

To make our hiring process fair and fast, we may use artificial intelligence tools to help review applications and resumes. AI tools only assist our team. All final decisions on interviews, offers, or rejections are made by human hiring managers. We check our tools to lower bias, and we keep your data safe. If you need a different way to apply or talk with us instead of an AI tool, please reach out to our HR team for support.