Capture
All your notes, tasks, and files in one super-fast workspace.
Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack
About the role
We’re building a diverse team to join us in our ambitious vision for the future. It takes a village to make an extraordinary product, and having a wide range of perspectives to challenge each other’s assumptions is crucial to our mission and to our success. We especially encourage women, people of color, and others from historically marginalized groups to apply.
As a Fullstack Engineer and one of our first technical hires, you will:
- Work closely with the founders to design, implement, and maintain key surface areas across the product
- Solve interesting architecture challenges (offline sync + collaboration, rich text, knowledge graphs)
- Write performant, high-quality, and maintainable code
- Pair-program with other engineers to ship features, tests, and bug fixes across our codebase
- Lead projects from conception to production launch
- Measure and iterate based on analytics and user feedback
- Develop empathy for the the people who use our products every day
Our tech
As a small team, we’re all generalists and constantly learning new technologies. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React, Node, and ideally TypeScript.
If you’re curious, this is the technology that currently powers our apps:
- React frontend, CSS-in-JS, utilizing hooks for composable functionality
- Replicache for realtime data synchronization and offline support
- Proprietary state management solution similar to Redux
- ProseMirror-based rich text editor
- Capacitor for our hybrid iOS app, with custom extensions written in Swift
- Electron for our desktop app
- Node, Postgres for our backend
- Hosted on AWS, Heroku, Vercel
- GitHub, Slack, Notion
Qualifications
- You have strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React or Node
- You get excited about delivering delightful experiences to end users
- You love the idea of owning projects end-to-end
- You have experience collaborating cross-functionally across product roles (designers, PMs)
- You're pragmatic and can reason effectively about prioritization and scope
- You have a bias for action and are quick to implement new features and systems
About the company
For full-time employees, we offer:
- Challenging work with a high degree of ownership
- Competitive salary and startup equity
- Work life balance and unlimited PTO we actually want you to use :)
- MacBook Pro, high-res display, and accessories
- Remote-first work (no mandatory commutes!)
- Budget to set up your home office
- Co-working space at an office if you want it
- Top-tier benefits, including: health, dental, vision, and 401k
- Regular team events and off-sites
We're a distributed team primarily based in New York City and San Francisco, however we encourage folks from any timezone or background to apply.
Why you should join Capture
Capture is a digital workspace company backed by world-class investors including Y Combinator, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Thrive Capital, and BoxGroup. We’re on a mission to help busy people get more done and stay organized across all aspects of life.
We’re building a better way to tame the sheer volume of information and ideas we all come across throughout the day, starting with the fastest system ever made for managing all kinds of tasks, notes, and files in one place.
The world needs more life tools, not just productivity tools. Capture is your operating system for life – a place to keep track of what matters, think through difficult concepts, and plan around important goals.
