Software Engineer

At Podium, our mission is to arm every local business with a complete platform and outcome-driven AI employees that convert leads into real, paying customers. Every day, millions of workers use our AI lead conversion and communication platform to help them get more leads and make more money.

Our work and focus on helping local businesses thrive has been recognized across the industry, including Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000, and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies.

At Podium, we believe in fostering a culture that thrives on hiring and developing exceptional talent. Our operating principles serve as a compass, guiding daily behavior and decision-making, and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you resonate with our operating principles and are energized by our mission, Podium will be a great place for you!

The Role

At Podium, we’re looking for talented software engineers who want to make a significant impact in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. As an engineer at Podium, you’ll have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects that directly influence the success of our products and the businesses we serve.

As part of our engineering team, you'll collaborate with professionals across departments, including Engineering, Sales, and Customer Support, to innovate and solve real-world problems for small businesses. You’ll build scalable, high-performance systems, develop new features, and leverage emerging technologies like AI and machine learning to continuously improve our platform.

We embrace change and ambiguity, and we’re looking for engineers who are eager to drive technical solutions that shape the future of Podium. If you're passionate about solving complex problems, fostering a culture of learning, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, we’d love to have you on our team.

What you will be doing:

• Work in a collaborative environment at Podium where Engineering, Sales, and Customer Support collaborate closely to innovate for our customers.
• Join a cross-functional team spanning Brazil and the US, where engineers play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of internal tools.
• Contribute to the Internal Tools team by creating solutions that empower Podium's Go To Market team to support small businesses effectively.
• Engage with a variety of products, integrating features through 3rd party APIs and harnessing AI LLM technologies to enhance our internal tools.
• Make a direct impact on business outcomes by leveraging AI to optimize our tools and drive success for small businesses.

 What you should have:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience with focus on backend development as this job is mainly backend work.
• 4+ years of coding experience with at least one modern language such as Python, Elixir, Ruby,  or Go with function-oriented design.
• Experience with front end development and web programming using React, TypeScript or JavaScript
• Experience working with Databases (Postgres), APIs and web infrastructure
• Evidence of exposure to OpenAI technologies or any LLM AI/ML emerging technologies
• Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)

What we hope you have:

• 4+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer on an Agile development team, in a hyper-growth SaaS setting
• Passion for learning, problem solving and mentoring your peers
• Courage to ask questions, deal with ambiguity, and flexibility to pivot with business priorities
• Strong experience with algorithms, data structures, and code
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Experience with web infrastructure and distributed systems
• Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms

BENEFITS

• Open and transparent culture
• Generous vacation time, plus three 4-day summer holiday weekends
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Retirement Plan with competitive company matching
• Bi-annual swag drops with cool Podium gear and appareal 
• Additional benefits for fully remote employees