Software Engineer (Application Framework)
Company: Octus
Location: New York, New York, United States
Salary: $150k - $175.5k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-13
About this role
- The Application Framework team at Octus owns the foundational platform — APIs, SDKs, and shared services — that powers application development across the organization
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer who enjoys solving platform problems, shipping high-quality code, and making other engineers more productive
- AI is central to how we work — our team uses AI tooling throughout the entire development lifecycle, from design through code review
- This isn’t experimental or optional
- If you’re excited about building with AI as a core part of your workflow, you’ll fit right in
- Contribute to projects and shared SDKs from design through production, making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and quality
- Contribute to shared SDKs and libraries used across the organization
- Write meaningful tests — unit, integration, and contract — that give confidence to ship
- Grow toward owning larger initiatives independently over time
- Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving feedback that improves quality
- Collaborate with teammates through pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to technical discussions, architecture decisions, and sprint planning
- Help monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production systems in distributed environments
- Investigate and resolve technical issues systematically
- Maintain technical documentation — architecture, API specs, runbooks, and coding guidelines
### Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) benefits
- A flexible, hybrid working policy with home office reimbursements
- Reimbursements for career development and continuing education
- Generous paid time off – including vacations, sick leave and parental leave
- Employee referral bonuses
- Gym subsidies and other fun fitness benefits
- Kudos program to recognize and reward colleagues
- Manager training programs- 3+ years in software engineering, with experience building backend systems, APIs, or SDKs
- Experience working with cloud-based systems (AWS...