Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Compa Technologies, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Engineering Sites- Orange County, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Team at Compa Technologies, you will own and lead backend and infrastructure projects that power the company’s real-time compensation intelligence platform, enabling enterprise customers like NVIDIA, Stripe, and OpenAI to make data-driven compensation decisions.
• Day to day, you will design, build, and maintain backend services and AWS infrastructure, develop and scale application backends using Django and Postgres, improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows, and ensure reliability, performance, and observability of systems.
• You will join a collaborative, curious, and driven team at Compa, a venture-backed AI startup headquartered in Irvine, California, with growing engineering sites in Denver, Seattle, and San Francisco, focused on delivering compensation intelligence to leading enterprises.
• In this role, you will deepen your expertise in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, gain experience making architectural decisions in a fast-paced startup environment, and contribute to scaling the team and shared resources as the company grows.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering with an emphasis on backend systems
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating production systems on AWS
• Deep, hands-on experience with Python, Django, and Postgres in production
• Solid DevOps/SRE fundamentals (CI/CD, observability, incident response)
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database fundamentals

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work at a venture-backed AI startup revolutionizing compensation intelligence
• Chance to impact enterprise customers including NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, OpenAI, and Moderna
• Collaborative, curious, and driven team culture that values transparency, ownership, and continuous learning
• In-person work prioritization with engineering sites in Orange County, Denver, Seattle, and San Francisco
• Exposure to AI/ML, data warehouse, and infrastructure scaling in a high-growth startup environment

Skills & Technologies

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Senior

Onsite

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About Compa Technologies, Inc.

Compa Technologies provides a cloud-based offer-management platform for compensation teams. The software aggregates real-time market data, normalizes competing offers, and generates candidate-specific pay recommendations. Enterprises use it to streamline approvals, ensure pay equity, and document decisions for audit and compliance. Founded in 2020 by former compensation leaders from major tech firms, Compa integrates with applicant-tracking and HRIS systems and serves Fortune 500 and high-growth companies across North America and Europe.

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