Software Engineer - Marketplace

The role

You will build product systems to find, qualify, activate, and retain experts. You will work with Growth, Operations, Design, and founders to turn ambiguous opportunities into software.

What you will do

• Build end-to-end product experiences across expert acquisition, onboarding, assessments, matching, activation, and retention.
• Partner with Growth and Operations to identify bottlenecks, instrument the funnel, and ship improvements.
• Own experiments from idea through implementation and measurement.
• Develop internal tools and automation for customer-facing and operational teams.
• Create durable product primitives and clean interfaces.
• Use data, user feedback, and technical judgment to make tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and maintainability.

Required qualifications

• 3–5 of professional software engineering experience, ideally building high-velocity product, growth, marketplace, or workflow software.
• Strong full-stack engineering ability and a track record of shipping user-facing product from ambiguous requirements.
• Excellent product sense.
• Comfort working closely with non-technical partners and translating their needs into simple, robust systems.
• High ownership, strong judgment, and the ability to move quickly without creating unnecessary complexity.

Nice to have

• Experience with growth engineering, marketplace liquidity, onboarding, conversion optimization, or product analytics.
• Experience at a fast-growing startup or on a lean team where engineers owned both product decisions and execution.
• Interest in AI, data products, or tools that make complex work more scalable.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
• Monthly Wellness Stipend

About the company

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. They are based in San Francisco and serve frontier AI labs.