Senior Software Engineer, Routing
Designer Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech companies using design to improve health, sustainability, or prosperity for people. It backs founding teams, particularly those with design backgrounds, across sectors like fintech, healthcare, climate tech, and developer tools.
About Designer Fund
Designer Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in tech companies leveraging design to drive positive outcomes in health, sustainability, and financial prosperity. Its portfolio spans a wide range of sectors including financial infrastructure (Stripe), preventative health (Omada), collaborative tools (Notion), developer tools (Netlify), product management (Linear), payroll and benefits (Gusto), design tools (Framer), and healthcare infrastructure (Commure), among dozens of other companies across fintech, climate tech, healthcare, EdTech, and AI. The firm also runs 'Designer Founders,' a community and platform highlighting designers who have gone on to found and lead companies, reflecting its focus on backing design-driven founders and design-centric startups from early stages through growth and acquisition.
Skills
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