What's Coming Up & What You'll Work On

Since we're small and you'll wear many hats, we figure it makes more sense to outline our future plans and projects that you'll be part of, rather than guess at specific responsibilities.

• Building out our public API in Rust. This includes building an API that's fast and secure, but also one with great documentation and is easy of use - especially since we want our API to be used by those without a traditional engineering background. Seamlessly autogenerating an API endpoint for every app is great, and having it provide real value is even better.
• A flexible permissions system, so that it's easy and safe to give your users - for example, customer service - the ability to write to the database through Slight apps.
• Adding graphs as a first-class entity within Slight, and allow them to be embedded anywhere safely.
• A seamless Google Sheets integration: Slight data apps will be called directly within a sheet to help anyone who "lives in spreadsheets". This helps say finance teams to keep their mission-critical spreadsheets up-to-date and iterate quickly when building their own analysis on top of Slight data app. Similarly - a Slack integration.
• Python and R support. There are two parts to this: we want to support secure Slight apps written in both languages, and also make it really easy to call Slight apps from within a Python or R session anywhere.
• WebAssembly support: along with Python and R, we want to support fast apps written directly in code ready to run on the browser.

Compared to our more general software engineer role, this role is more specific to the core Rust components of our backend. You will still likely get your hands dirty in all sorts of interesting places with code.

About You

We are hiring for strengths, not eliminating based on weaknesses. Thus while we’re looking for very strong candidates, we have minimal hard requirements.

We don’t have an explicit experience requirement, although because we’re extremely early and quite small, engineers early in their technical career are unlikely to be a great fit for us right now.

We do require that you have strong proficiency in at least one programming language, and you must be willing to learn and get up to speed early with Rust.

We stand strongly behind our values. Lastly, two nice-to-haves (not requirements) would be experience in a startup or company that has launched a new product, and cloud infrastructure knowledge.