CB Insights

Software Engineer

CB Insights • $130K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React
  • Experience with Kubernetes and AWS
  • Ability to integrate AI solutions into systems
  • Proven track record of shipping end-to-end projects
  • Strong independent work capabilities
  • Technical decision-making based on evidence and taste

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end development of core systems
  • Establish engineering patterns for future hiring
  • Collaborate directly with company founders
  • Continuously deploy to production
  • Shape the system architecture in the initial year
  • Manage multiple AI agents in parallel
  • Adapt quickly to new technologies and practices

Benefits

  • Top-quartile compensation and meaningful equity
  • Access to a top-tier office in San Francisco
  • Provision of a high-performance MacBook Pro and necessary tools
  • Comprehensive health coverage including full health benefits
Full Job Description
05. The Role

You'll own core systems end-to-end: agent platform, infrastructure, integrations runtime. You'll set the engineering patterns every future hire builds on, work directly with the founders, and ship to production constantly. We need your opinion, not just your code.

Most of the important decisions haven't been made yet. What you build in the next year shapes the entire system.

Stack: TypeScript, React, Bun, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS

You're comfortable running multiple AI agents in parallel. You pick up new things fast.

06. You Might Be a Fit If
  • You've shipped real things end-to-end, multiple times. You owned them.
  • You code with AI agents and lean into it, with enough taste to know what's worth shipping.
  • You hold strong technical opinions and change them when the evidence says so.
  • You move independently.
  • You want to do the best work of your career.
  • You want a true early-stage, in-person experience in San Francisco: fast-paced, high intensity.

07. What We Offer
  • Top-quartile compensation and meaningful equity
  • Top-tier office in San Francisco
  • M4 MacBook Pro and whatever else you need to move fast
  • Full health coverage

08. The Process
  • Screen (20 min): Quick chat, mutual fit.
  • Deep dive (45 min): Your career, what you've built, how you think.
  • Technical (60 min): Design a system with us. No leetcode.
  • Paid work day: A real task from our backlog, in person.
  • Offer: Under two weeks from first call to offer.

About CB Insights

CB Insights is a software and technology company that provides market intelligence and analysis to venture capitalists, corporate strategy and innovation teams, and investment bankers. The company's software platform provides data-driven insights on emerging technologies, startups, and venture capital trends. CB Insights' customers include Cisco, Salesforce, and American Express.
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