Projects you'll contribute to

You can view sample projects here.

What you bring to the role

• Strong technical aptitude that allows you to move comfortably around our tech stack, both back-end and front-end, with strong computer science fundamentals.
• Professional experience contributing to software development teams at a mid-career to senior level. We’re excited for you to unpack your past successes and build off your previous experience at Elicit!
• Above-average communication skills. Elicit is a small, highly-collaborative team, so you’ll frequently be tapped to communicate complex engineering topics with stakeholders across the company.
• Your past experience or exposure to working with language models. Because of the way language models work, you’re used to writing a lot of asynchronous code and thinking defensively about error handling.
• A sense of joy in what you do. One thing we love about our team at Elicit is that everybody’s a craftsperson who cares deeply about their field.

Our tech stack

• Backend: Node and Python
• Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind
• We like static type checking in Python and TypeScript
• All infrastructure runs in Kubernetes across a couple of clouds
• We use GitHub for code reviews and CI

Am I a good fit?

Consider these questions:

1. What are a couple of different ways to write concurrent code in Python?
2. What are the differences between var, let, and const in JavaScript?
3. What are a couple of different web technologies to asynchronously send data from a server to a client?
4. In which situations would you use REST vs. GraphQL vs. RPC?

Strong applicants will find it easy to answer these questions.

Location and travel

We have a great office in Oakland, CA, and we'd love to see you there if you're local. That said, we're just as happy for you to work remotely. We do get the whole team together for a quarterly retreat somewhere fun, because in-person time matters to us.

Benefits and perks

In addition to working on important problems as part of a productive and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on location):

• Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely with time zone overlap (between GMT and GMT-8), as long as you’re comfortable traveling for quarterly in-person offsites
• Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)
• Flexible vacation policy, with a recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays
• Every Elician receives a $200 monthly wellbeing stipend to spend on whatever supports your health and wellbeing.
• 401K with a 6% employer match
• A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
• $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget, so you can freely experiment with new AI tools to incorporate into your workflow, take courses, purchase educational resources, or attend AI-focused conferences and events
• A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks
• You can find more reasons to work with us in this thread!

Compensation

For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to keep salaries market-competitive, equitable, and simple to understand. For this role, we target starting ranges of:

• Senior (L4): $200-260k + equity
• Expert (L5): $250-300k + equity
• Principal (L6): >$280k + significant equity

We're optimizing for a hire who can contribute at a L4/senior-level or above.

We offer above-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity terms.