Software Engineer, Internal Tools

Description

L9 builds companies, and we build the software those companies run on.

When a workflow is slow because the available tool is bad, we would rather replace the tool than accept the workflow. That can mean email, chat, dashboards, support tools, deployment systems, automations, or something that does not have a name yet.

The work changes often. You might ship a small tool in a day, then spend the next month replacing a system the company depends on.

This is not a role for maintaining one narrow product surface. You will find problems, decide what should exist, build it, and keep it reliable.

What you'll do

• Find slow, repetitive, or unnecessarily complicated work
• Talk to the people doing that work and understand what is actually broken
• Design and build the tool that removes the problem
• Own projects across frontend, backend, infrastructure, automation, and product
• Replace outside software when building our own gives us a real advantage
• Keep internal systems simple, fast, and dependable

Good fit

• Build production software quickly without making future work miserable
• Comfortable owning a project from vague problem to working system
• Move easily between product decisions and technical implementation
• Prefer small, boring systems over elaborate architecture
• Care about interface details because internal users are still users
• Question tools and processes that everyone else has learned to tolerate
• Use whatever helps you work better, including AI
• Do not need a roadmap, a large team, or a pile of meetings to make progress

If a bad internal process annoys you enough that you start building its replacement before anyone asks, you will probably like this job.

Benefits

• $450k salary + equity
• Bonus
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• $50 daily food stipend
• $50 daily rideshare stipend
• $500 monthly wellness stipend
• $500 monthly therapy stipend
• $1000 monthly rent stipend
• All public transportation costs covered
• $200 monthly hobbies stipend
• $100 monthly clothing stipend
• Take any stipend as additional salary instead

Interview process

1. A 15-minute call to see whether we want to work together
2. One 60-minute working session where you build or improve an internal tool

No trivia. No take-home project. Use any tools, documentation, software, or AI you want.