Y Combinator Software Engineer
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Description
Smartcuts is building a browser extension that turns your clicks and keystrokes into shareable, no-code automations (1-minute video). We're looking for individuals who approach their craft with curiosity, clarity, and an appetite to learn to join our tiny but mighty distributed team.
Smartcuts investors include Y Combinator, SignalFire, and prominent angels including the founders of Fitbit, Hubspot, Lyft, and Segment.
We use ReasonML, ReScript, Next.js, Vercel, GraphQL, and the serverless database Fauna. Our choices were built on a preference for strongly typed, functional languages and for serverless architectures -- choices that allow us to focus on the necessary, not the incidental, complexity of the problem space.
Some of the interesting engineering and design challenges in this problem space?
- How do you design a product that doesn't expose engineering concepts to users?
- How can you design an algorithm that can reliably locate elements on a page, without asking the user to specify css selectors?
- How can you leverage AI to automatically detect and extract structured records from a web page?
Skills
As published by lever · 6 questions · 5 written answers
Basics
Resume/CV, Full name, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, Twitter URL, Other website
Short answers (1)
- Where are you located?
Written answers (5)
- Why are you excited about Smartcuts?
- If you have a GitHub or GitLab profile, or other projects you've worked on, please share links to them here. optional
- Are you more of a perfectionist who values the best solution or more of a hacker who values shipping things quickly? We know the world is gray, not black and white, but what's your baseline tendency?
- What languages, frameworks, and tools are you proficient in? Approximately how many years of experience have you had with each?
- Tell us about the software project you're most proud of that you built from scratch.