Software Engineer

rediem is a fast-growing early-stage, VC backed startup. rediem distills and productizes the core principles that inspire an iconic brand's cult-like following through an operating system for brand community and belonging. We work with some of the top consumer brands; Olipop, Sun Bum, Faherty and many more.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help shape the future of our platform and help create the future of social commerce. We have some exciting scale challenges ahead as we scale from millions of users to tens of millions of users and need someone with the right skills and attitude to help us continue to grow.

We want someone who is aligned with our values:
Radical Candor - Be hard on the work, not on each other. Operate with transparency and assume positive intent.
Excellence - Do everything to the best of your ability
Delightful customer experience - For our merchants and their customers. Anticipate customer needs before they are communicated
Initiative - Leave things better than you found it and be a team player
Embedded - In the culture, in the tech stack, in the customer journey, cross functionally in the merchant's marketing strategy
Minimal - Optimize for simplicity. You are finished when there is nothing left to take away

What You'll Do

Work in partnership with the CTO and other engineers on critical systems to improve their reliability, test coverage and maintainability
Build new features for our merchants and their customers
Build new features for our Customer Experience team
Build and evolve customer-facing APIs
Apply a camper's mentality to everything you do (leave it better than you found it)
Write and maintain third party integrations
Build bespoke integrations with our technology partners
Approach every problem with a lens for privacy, security, and reliability
Participate in on-call rotation
Help improve Mean Time to Detection and Mean Time to Recover over time
Collaborate with business stakeholders, customer experience team members and our designer
Collaborate with our designer to build pipelines that take our design system into production

Requirements

Core Requirements:

Strong experience building, deploying, and maintaining production systems with TypeScript
Ability and willingness to work across the full stack (React, backend, infrastructure)
Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Experience working with messy or legacy systems and improving them over time
Solid understanding of system design and API design
Familiarity with event-driven systems (e.g. queues, async processing)
Experience with databases (MongoDB, Postgres, etc.)
Strong debugging skills and ability to stay calm under pressure
Experience with CI/CD and improving deployment workflows
Pragmatic mindset: able to balance speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability

Nice to Have:

Deep experience with React architecture
Experience with third-party integrations (especially in e-commerce / marketing ecosystems)
Familiarity with Shopify ecosystem
Experience migrating from MongoDB to Postgres
Startup experience
Experience building or maintaining design systems

How We Work:

Small, senior team: you'll work directly with the CTO daily
High ownership, low bureaucracy
"Clean as you go" mentality - we aim to get 1% better every day
Pragmatic engineering culture: progress over perfection
Heavy use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, Codex)

Why Join Us:

You'll have direct, production impact on an application that has millions of end users
Strong growth potential as the company scales
Access to substantial AI tooling
Per-developer, monthly R&D budget
Competitive salary + equity
Fun, cooperative work environment

Interview Process:

Intro conversation with our CTO, Andreas Kavountzis (30 minutes)
System Design or API Design Discussion - We'll collaboratively design a Loyalty system (90 minutes)
Live Coding Session - We'll solve a real world problem, without AI assistance, to see if your skills align with our challenges (90 minutes)
Conversations with our CEO, Sarah Ganzenmuller, and President, Regan Jayne (30 minutes each)

Benefits

Compensation

Compensation includes cash and equity, depending on level. The salary range for this role is from $130-250K/year.

Why Join rediem

We work with iconic brands like Olipop, Sun Bum, Faherty, and Mrs. Meyers — and we're just getting started. Here's what our team values:

Founder-level access: You'll work directly with leadership on strategy and execution. Your ideas shape the company
Real ownership: You're not filling a seat — you're building rediem's go-to-market engine from the ground up
Category creation: You're not selling a commodity. You're helping define how brands build community using AI
Growth trajectory: Early-stage equity means your work directly impacts the company's trajectory — and yours
Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance. Flexible PTO. Remote-first culture. Equity package
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