Senior Software Engineer, Routing
Designer Fund is a venture fund and design partner that invests in early-stage technology companies where design is central to value creation. It supports founders with product and brand design, hiring, fundraising, and access to a design-focused community.
About Designer Fund
Designer Fund invests in early-stage startups from pre-seed through Series A that use design to improve health, sustainability, and prosperity. The fund provides capital, design strategy, product and brand guidance, design hiring support, fundraising assistance, investor introductions, and access to the Designer Fund Collective of founders, advisors, and design leaders. Its portfolio includes technology companies serving sectors such as financial infrastructure, healthcare, developer tools, collaboration, climate technology, and productivity.
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About the Role
You will work on high-impact projects that combine cutting-edge technology, complex distributed systems, and challenging algorithmic problems in transportation, routing, and navigation. You'll have the opportunity to own features end-to-end, make key technical decisions, and shape the architecture and reliability of large-scale systems. You'll architect, build, and scale robust, high-performance systems from initial design through deployment to production, develop features and APIs in Golang, implement geometric and graph algorithms, and maintain Python and Java server applications.
Requirements
- BSc in Computer Science or equivalent (required), with an MSc as an advantage
- 4+ years of hands-on software development experience, including work with one or more programming languages (Python, Go, Java, etc.)
- 2+ years of professional Python experience — advantage
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms — advantage
- Strong grasp of core software engineering principles: data structures, multithreading, OOP, and design patterns
- Proven experience building and scaling highly available, distributed, large-scale systems
- Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, and software architecture
- Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and scale robust, high-performance systems from initial design through deployment to production
- Own features end-to-end, from concept through development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Develop features and APIs for concurrent applications in Golang
- Implement and improve geometric and graph algorithms to support core product functionality
- Maintain Python and Java server applications, ensuring reliability and stability
- Write production-grade code that is efficient, reliable, maintainable, and optimized for performance
- Optimize application performance, uptime, and scalability while maintaining high standards of code quality
- Run benchmarks and write analysis scripts for geographical data
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package which includes base salary and equity
- Health insurance with a discount for family members
- Hybrid work
- Career development and growth opportunities
- Freefit and other sports lessons
- 10bis/Cibus food allowance
- Happy hours
- Team events
