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About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is the AI-powered system behind the world's most meaningful appointments, helping 100,000+ service businesses earn more revenue and free up time for the work they love. Our agentic workforce gets more clients in the door, grows profit per appointment, and keeps clients coming back - doing the jobs owners never had time for and couldn't justify hiring to fill. Businesses on GlossGenius process billions in annual payment volume, and see 65% more revenue using GlossGenius Payments by growing ticket size, rebooking clients at checkout, and saving on processing fees.

About the Role

GlossGenius has grown significantly, supporting tens of thousands of customers and seeing billions of transaction volumes on our platforms. As our customers continue to grow their businesses, we want to enable them to be more successful. For that, we're building AI features that will transform how our customers operate and grow their businesses

That's why we are seeking strong Software Engineers, All levels to join one of our Product or Platform-based teams. Product-focused engineers work at the intersection of business needs and technical solutions, solving key customer problems. Platform-focused engineers build scalable, reliable, and extensible systems that empower product teams to move faster, deliver with quality, and focus on customer value.

You must be commutable to our San Francisco office. We default to being in-office.

What We Work With

We are open to hearing from candidates who know different programming languages and are excited to learn more and grow their skills. Our current stack:

• Kotlin (micronaut, jooq), Ruby (Rails, Sidekiq), gRPC, protobuf
• Typescript / Javascript (React, Redux)
• React Native
• AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres and Terraform

What You'll Do

As a Software Engineer at GlossGenius, you'll play a critical role in shaping a platform that powers over 100,000 small businesses and processes more than $3 billion in payments annually. Engineers work on high-impact initiatives that support our rapid growth and evolving scale. Examples of your potential responsibilities include:

• Develop, release, and run large-scale web applications that empower beauty and wellness businesses to operate and grow.
• Build new AI features for our customers.
• Develop and define our microservice-based infrastructure.
• Build tools and solutions that enable internal teams to work faster, more effectively, with more confidence, and improve the value they can provide our users (Business Scalability team).
• Work on core experiences such as making payments friction-free for clients and customers, building tools to help customers earn more per hour, or enabling businesses to effortlessly grow and manage their teams.
• Focus on front-end development, crafting intuitive and engaging user experiences for our web and mobile applications.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security for our backend systems.

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of professional experience in software development.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• A strong desire to move fast and have a significant impact.
• Hands-on experience building with AI/ML APIs or LLMs, you've shipped something real using AI, whether in a production environment or a meaningful side project. You think critically about where AI adds genuine value and how to integrate it responsibly into a product.
• An entrepreneurial mindset, eager to take ownership and contribute new ideas to solve challenging problems.
• Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.
• Demonstrates strong collaboration skills and team spirit.

Benefits & Perks 

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG
• In-person opportunities that are designed to help team members foster collaboration and build community (ie; working out of a co-working space, team dinners, and other team building activities)
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office support

The starting base salary for this role in San Francisco is between $150,000-$230,000+ target equity + benefits. The base salary offered is dependent upon many factors including skills, experience, location, and education. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.  Additionally, this role is currently eligible to participate in GlossGenius's equity plan as well as a range of health & wellbeing, retirement savings, and other benefits within our total rewards offering.

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.