Study Startup Associate

September 26, 2026

Job Description:

Create a culture of distributed technical ownership and decision-making
Drive the use of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for significant decisions
Ensure decisions consider tradeoffs, risks, and existing architectural precedent
Encourage engineers to lead technical design, providing guidance and challenge
Drive engineering best practices across design, development, testing, security, observability, performance, and reliability
Keep technical debt and architectural risk visible and actively managed
Contribute directly to complex, high-risk, or strategically important work
Participate in technical design and code reviews
Pair with engineers on difficult problems and provide technical leadership during production incidents
Directly manage, mentor, and develop engineers
Set expectations around quality, ownership, and performance
Provide feedback and career development
Participate in hiring, onboarding, and performance management
Partner with Product to turn priorities into technically sound plans
Ensure complex work receives appropriate technical discovery and design before development
Surface technical risks, dependencies, and complexity early
Balance delivery with technical debt, reliability, and long-term platform health
Own the engineering execution and technical outcomes of the team

Requirements:

7+ years experience building and operating production SaaS applications
5+ years experience with Java and Spring Boot
Familiarity with Angular and Single Page Application (SPA) development
Experience with containers and cloud-native application patterns
Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and modern software delivery
Experience working within a DevOps philosophy, including ownership of deployment, observability, reliability, and production support
Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, data modeling, performance, scalability, and security
Demonstrated experience leading technical decisions and developing engineers
Must be authorized to work in the United States
Must indicate whether employment visa sponsorship will be required

Benefits:

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