Software Engineer, Product

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: (Salary details not provided)

Astral is building next-generation developer tools for the Python ecosystem. They've created Ruff (a Python linter and formatter) and uv (a Python package manager), and are now building a state-of-the-art type checker and hosted services. The team includes contributors from projects like ripgrep, bat, hyperfine, and maturin.

This role involves building the company's first hosted product, a full-stack, greenfield effort integrated with Astral's open-source tooling. The candidate will be part of a small, rapidly iterating team working alongside the CEO. They will significantly influence the technical stack and direction of the product.

Requirements

• Experience shipping across the stack in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated, deep expertise in at least one area (e.g., front-end or back-end).
• Ability to design and productionize backend APIs.
• Experience standing up and iterating on front-end stacks.
• Ability to design data models and database schemas.
• Experience building data pipelines.
• Experience designing and productionizing cloud infrastructure stacks.

Responsibilities

• Designing (and productionizing) the backend API.
• Standing up and iterating on the front-end stack.
• Designing data models and database schema.
• Building out data pipelines.
• Designing (and productionizing) the cloud infrastructure stack (e.g., cloud providers, content-serving, hosting, deployment).
• Contributing to a highly collaborative, asynchronous team environment.

Application Instructions

The hiring process is entirely remote and does not include live coding segments. It consists of three phases:

• A take-home project (building a tool based on a pre-defined specification).
• A presentation (presenting on some of your work).

Company Information

• Company: AstralAt
• Mission: To make the Python ecosystem more productive by building next-generation developer tools.
• Team: Remote and distributed, hiring from Pacific Time to Central European Time. Twice-annual in-person on-sites.
• Compensation: Competitive salary and equity.
• Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare and more.
• Collaboration Style: Minimizes meetings, maximizes time spent working in code; asynchronous collaboration (Discord, GitHub, Notion).
• Values: (Details not provided)