Engineering-driven tech companies

Engineers have the right resources and tooling to ship code every day.

Founded by engineers, Qualia’s priority has always been to develop truly great products. We’ve fostered a culture of high autonomy and alignment, enabling our engineering team to lead innovation and build products from the ground up.

To ensure our engineers have what they need to move fast and ship high-quality code, we also have powerful internal libraries and tooling to help our team explore options and solve problems quickly. For example, one of the many tools used by our team, Reval, (which lets you see front-end changes in real time as you make changes to code), was built by one of our co-founders, Lucas Hansen.

While the team has evolved over time, maintaining our core values has remained our top priority even as Qualia has continued raising funds (our Series D in late 2020), growing well beyond a $1B valuation. Our engineering team still sits center-stage, and we provide the tools and support needed in order for them to drive product development and guide the roadmap.

We place a large amount of trust in our engineers.

As an early hire on our Space Communications team, you’ll have a large impact in determining what we build and how we work. Our leadership team does a great job at communicating our vision, but since we’re building an entirely new platform, there’s no rulebook or ‘one right way’ to execute. To that end, we place a large emphasis on hiring smart, motivated people, and trusting them to get the job done. You’ll have the autonomy to hit the ground running and the tools needed to confidently and easily test and release code multiple times a day.

As we grow, engineers will be responsible for mentoring more junior talent and continue to have a large say on our roadmap. It’s an exciting time to join the team, as we’re looking to triple in size by the end of the year!

Both of our founders bring industry expertise.

Julianna (co-founder and CTO) was previously an engineer at Plaid and Strava, and a product manager at VGS. Reed (co-founder and CEO) was a product manager at Plaid. Together, they bring invaluable insights into our customers’ pain points. What’s more, two thirds of the team is engineering, product, and design.

At Stytch, product requirements are largely led by engineers. In fact, for the first year and a half since we were founded we didn’t have any product managers. Senior engineers defined product requirements in addition to the technical specs. As we build out our product management function, engineers will continue to play an important role in defining products and setting the roadmap. After all, we are building tools for developers!