**Position:** Software Engineer, New Grad (Zara)

**Type:** Hourly contract

**Compensation:** $180K - $250K/yr

**Location:** Remote

**Commitment:** 10 40 hours/week

**Role Responsibilities**

*   Contribute to the development of fullstack systems and product features.
*   Build backend services and APIs with clean, maintainable code.
*   Develop user-facing interfaces and improve product functionality.
*   Support database design and data modeling for performance and scalability.
*   Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver features.
*   Participate in code reviews, testing, and engineering improvements.
*   Debug issues and help maintain reliable production systems.

**Requirements**

*   Recent graduate in Computer Science or a related field.
*   Strong fundamentals in JavaScript or TypeScript.
*   Familiarity with React and frontend development concepts.
*   Familiarity with Node.js and backend development.
*   Understanding of databases such as PostgreSQL and data modeling basics.
*   Knowledge of APIs and system communication principles.
*   Strong willingness to learn with attention to detail.

**Application Process (Takes 20 Min)**

*   Easy Apply on LinkedIn
*   Check email for next steps
*   Participate in resume evaluation & interview stage

Software Engineer (New Grad) | Remote

Entry-Level Software Engineer | Remote

**About Karbon** Karbon is the global leader in AI-powered practice management software for accounting firms. We provide an award-winning cloud platform that helps tens of thousands of accounting professionals work more efficiently and collaboratively every day. With customers in 40 countries, we have grown into a globally distributed team across the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines. We are well-funded, ranked #1 on G2, growing rapidly, and have a people-first culture that is recognized with Great Place To Work® certification and on Fortune magazine's Best Small Workplaces™ List. Karbon is seeking a **Senior Full Stack Software Engineer** to join the team working on **Aider**, a product within the Karbon portfolio. This is a distinct engineering role with a different tech stack and problem space from Karbon’s core platform. You’ll work in an agile, product-focused team to design, build, and evolve highly interactive web applications. This role is frontend-led, with full-stack ownership and ~20% focus on backend/API work, primarily using Node.js. You’ll have strong autonomy, real product ownership, and the opportunity to influence how modern engineering practices—including AI-assisted development—are applied within Aider. About the Role! Product & Engineering Execution

*   Design, build, and maintain high-quality, customer-facing web applications using React and TypeScript, with a strong emphasis on frontend experience and performance.
*   Develop and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js, contributing to data flows, integrations, and platform reliability (~20% of scope).
*   Translate product requirements into clear technical designs, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
*   Own features end to end—from discovery and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.

User Experience & Growth

*   Optimize user experiences through thoughtful UI/UX decisions, performance improvements, and frontend architecture.
*   Use experimentation techniques such as A/B testing, feature flags, and funnel analysis to improve acquisition, activation, and retention.
*   Study user behavior data to identify opportunities for improvement and refinement across the product.

Quality, Collaboration & Ownership

*   Work closely with QA, Product, and Design to ensure features are well-tested, reliable, and meet user expectations.
*   Participate actively in code reviews, technical discussions, and architectural decisions.
*   Take ownership of existing systems as well as new development, making iterative improvements to keep the product healthy and scalable.
*   Collaborate effectively with a distributed, international engineering team in a low-politics, high-trust environment.

AI, Automation & Modern Engineering Practices

*   Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g. for code generation, refactoring, testing, and documentation) to improve development velocity and code quality.
*   Identify opportunities to automate repetitive engineering tasks and improve workflows across development, testing, and deployment.
*   Apply AI-enabled insights responsibly when analyzing user behavior, experiments, or product performance.

About You! We know great engineers come from many backgrounds. You don’t need to tick every box below to apply.

*   3+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development, with a strong frontend focus.
*   Advanced proficiency in React and modern frontend patterns.
*   Experience using TypeScript across frontend and backend codebases.
*   Hands-on experience building APIs and services with Node.js.
*   Working knowledge of state management libraries such as MobX (or similar).
*   Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
*   Familiarity with microservices architectures and distributed systems.
*   Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
*   Strong understanding of software engineering best practices across the full SDLC (testing, CI/CD, monitoring).

Product & Growth Mindset

*   Experience with feature flags, experimentation, and data-driven iteration.
*   Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially when working with ambiguous product challenges.
*   Passion for understanding user behavior and building software that anticipates user needs.

Ways of Working

*   Comfortable working autonomously with high ownership and accountability.
*   Strong communication and collaboration skills for working across time zones and disciplines.
*   Takes pride in craftsmanship and feels genuine ownership over the impact of their work.
*   Curious, creative, and excited about building consumer-facing software used globally.

Education

*   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience.

**Why Work at Karbon?**

*   Gain global experience across the USA, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada and the Philippines
*   4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra "Karbon Days" off a year
*   Flexible working environment
*   Work with (and learn from) an experienced, high-performing team
*   Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within
*   A collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity, invests in development, and provides consistent feedback
*   Generous parental leave

Karbon embraces diversity and inclusion, aligning with our values as a business. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. If you've made it this far in the job description but your past experience doesn't perfectly align, we do encourage you to still apply. You could still be the right person for the role! We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We don’t discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion, physical or cognitive ability, and other diversity dimensions that may hinder inclusion in the organization. Generally, if you are a good person, we want to talk to you. 😛 If there are any adjustments or accommodations that we can make to assist you during the recruitment process, and your journey at Karbon, contact us at people.support@karbonhq.com for a confidential discussion. _**At this time, we request that agency referrals are not submitted for this position. We appreciate your understanding and encourage direct applications from interested candidates. Thank you!**_

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Through proprietary software and AI, along with a focus on customer delight, Sleek makes the back-office easy for micro SMEs.We give Entrepreneurs time back to focus on what they love doing - growing their business and being with customers. With a surging number of Entrepreneurs globally, we are innovating in a highly lucrative space.We operate 3 business segments:

*   Corporate Secretary: Automating the company incorporation, secretarial, filing, Nominee Director, mailroom and immigration processes via custom online robots and SleekSign. We are the market leaders in Singapore with :5% market share of all new business incorporations
*   Accounting & Bookkeeping: Redefining what it means to do Accounting, Bookkeeping, Tax and Payroll thanks to our proprietary SleekBooks ledger, AI tools and exceptional customer service
*   FinTech payments: Overcoming a key challenge for Entrepreneurs by offering digital banking services to new businesses

Sleek launched in 2017 and now has around 15,000 customers across our offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. We have around 500 staff with an intact startup mindset. We have recently raised Series B financing off the back of >70% compound annual growth in Revenue over the last 5 years. Sleek has been recognised by The Financial Times, The Straits Times, Forbes and LinkedIn as one of the fastest growing companies in Asia. Backed by world-class investors, we are on track to be one of the few cash flow positive, tech-enabled unicorns based out of Singapore. **About The Role** Mission: As the Full Stack Engineer, you will be at the forefront of transforming our technology landscape through comprehensive, end-to-end AI solutions. Your mission is to architect, develop, and deploy scalable systems that leverage advanced Artificial Intelligence and automation capabilities to drive operational efficiency, product innovation, and user satisfaction. You will work closely with cross-functional teams—ranging from data scientists and product managers to UX/UI designers and DevOps professionals—to ensure seamless integration of AI-powered features where they deliver the greatest value, while maintaining a robust software architecture and intuitive user experience. Your role will be instrumental in ensuring our next-generation platform not only meets client and internal needs but also sets new standards for innovation, reliability, and excellence in the AI-driven software industry. Outcomes: **Deliver High-Quality Code:** Consistently submit well-documented, maintainable, and robust code through Pull Requests (PRs) that include comprehensive tests (unit, integration) and adhere to team coding standards and best practices. Aim for high test coverage (e.g., >80%) on new code. **Apply Strong Fundamentals:** Design and implement features demonstrating strong understanding and application of software architecture principles (e.g., SOLID, clean architecture), efficient database design (schema, indexing, query optimization), and API best practices (RESTful design, security). **Leverage AI Tools Effectively:** Integrate AI coding assistants and tools into your daily workflow to demonstrably improve development speed (e.g., reducing boilerplate, accelerating test writing, assisting debugging) without compromising code quality, maintainability, or introducing unnecessary complexity. Be prepared to share effective prompts and techniques. **Contribute to System Stability:** Keep production rollback rate related to your contributions under 2% by enforcing comprehensive testing, leveraging CI/CD pipelines effectively, and adhering to established DevOps best practices. **Engage in Collaborative Development:** Actively participate in code reviews, providing timely, constructive feedback based on engineering principles and best practices. Respond proactively to feedback on your own PRs, contributing positively to team velocity and knowledge sharing. **RequirementsProfessional Background:** You've excelled as a Fullstack Engineer, AI Specialist, or a similar role for 5+ years, developing and deploying scalable applications that harness the power of AI. **Front-End & Back-End:** Fluent in React, NodeJS/NestJS, Typescript and SQL, with hands-on experience in microservices that are modular, reusable, and resilient. Experience with VueJS and MongoDB is a bonus. **Databases & Architecture:** Comfortable with MongoDB/Supabase, ESR/RPC, and adept at designing solutions aligned with Clean/Hexagonal architecture, SOLID principles, ACID, and idempotency. **AI Frameworks & Tools:** Skilled in advanced AI ecosystems—LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.—with experience in prompt engineering, RAG, and an interest in specialized hardware like Groq. **Quality Advocate**: Passionate about maintaining high testing standards, security patches, and thorough documentation for AI pipelines, ensuring consistent and reliable performance. **Interpersonal Skills:** Able to communicate fluidly with Agile teams, bridging gaps between product, UX, data science, and engineering to deliver successful AI initiatives. **Cloud & DevOps Expertise:** Knowledge of AWS/GCP, when to leverage serverless/PaaS, and experience deploying microservices to Kubernetes—with a keen eye for best practices in MLOps and AI model lifecycle management. **Collaboration & Independence:** Equally comfortable working solo or in a team environment, driving projects from ideation to production while inspiring those around you. Behavioural fit is also important at Sleek, and we will be looking for candidates that have a proven track record of embodying the below attributes in their recent roles: Ownership: This shows reliability and helps build trust within the team. We move fast and need to know that everyone will see things through to completion and proactively help to get things back on track when challenges arise. Accountability is really important to us. Humility: There is so much we don't know. Humility allows for open-mindedness to feedback and a willingness to learn from others. It paves the way for collaboration and creates a positive work environment. It is a key ingredient of self awareness and emotional intelligence. Structured Thinking: Our business is complex with many layers (many services, many countries, many cultures). Regardless of whether you're more analytical or creative in nature, being able to show sound judgement is important to us. It ensures solutions are pragmatic and balance the needs of the organisation, team and customers. Attention to detail: You'll be managing multiple, complex workstreams from numerous stakeholders. It will be important for you to keep track of everything and notice when information is missing or inconsistent. Excellent listener and clear communicator: We have a variety of nationalities and for many people, English isn't their first language. For you to excel, you'll need to be present in your calls and make sure you properly receive and thoughtfully send messages to others in the business. Analytical Mindset: You have a keen eye for detail and a methodical approach to dissecting problems. You excel at analysing complex systems and processes to identify weaknesses and inefficiencies, and your ability to evaluate multiple scenarios enables you to devise the best testing strategies. You apply data-driven decisions to enhance testing coverage and performance metrics, ensuring the highest standards of software quality. Collaboration-Driven: You thrive in a cross-functional team environment, working closely with developers, product managers, and operations teams to ensure alignment on requirements and testing goals. You communicate effectively, advocate for quality throughout the development process, and proactively address potential issues before they arise, fostering a culture of shared responsibility for delivering exceptional software. Data driven: We are a data rich business with :15,000 small customers. Each decision we make can impact many more people than we realise - so it's critical that we use sound data to support our strategies and review the success of our initiatives. Can have tough conversations in a positive way: It's not a matter of if, but when difficult interpersonal situations arise. Disagreement, conflict and disappointment are a given in a fast moving business where people care about their work. People that proactively have tough conversations with kindness build empathy, trust and great working relationships. Interview Process: The successful candidate will participate in the below interview stages. A :15 minute chat with a member of the HR Team Take Home Assessment: A take-home assessment to demonstrate your knowledge and skills in both frontend and backend development. Estimated time: 2 hours. Note: Assessment is unrelated to Sleek's business, and will not be used or distributed beyond the interview process. Case study interview A :60 minute chat with the member of the team to validate the technical aptitude of the candidate. Career Deep Dive/Behavioral fit interview A :60 minute chat with the Senior Management to ensure behavioural fit. Offer + reference calls We'll make a non-binding offer verbally or over email, followed by a couple of short phone or video calls with references that you provide to us. Requirement for background screening Please be aware that Sleek is a regulated entity and as such is required to perform different levels of background checks on staff depending on their role. This may include using external vendors to verify the below: Your education Any criminal history Any political exposure Any bankruptcy or adverse credit history We will ask for your consent before conducting these checks. Depending on your role at Sleek, an adverse result on one of these checks may prohibit you from passing probation. By submitting a job application, you confirm that you have read and agree to our Data Privacy Statement for Candidates, found at sleek.com. **Benefits** Some other great things about working at Sleek... Humility and kindness: Humility is a core attribute we hire for, which means we have a culture of not taking ourselves too seriously and being able to laugh. Kindness is also incredibly important. We are committed to creating and nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment. Flexibility: This is a remote position. If you need to start early or start late to cater to your family or other needs, we don't mind, so long as you get your work done and proactively communicate. You can also work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year Financial benefits: We pay competitive market salaries and provide staff with generous paid time off and holiday schedules. Additionally, you'll be able to access our flexi benefits scheme for home office equipment or health and fitness expenditure. Certain staff at Sleek are also eligible for our employee share ownership plan and can share in the upside of our stellar growth trajectory as we work toward listing on a prominent stock exchange in the Asia Pacific region. Personal growth: You'll get a lot of responsibility and autonomy at Sleek - we move at a fast pace so you'll be making decisions, making mistakes and learning. There's also a range of internal and external facing training programmes we run. We're also at the forefront of utilising AI in our space and are developing a regional centre of AI excellence. It is our intention that if you leave Sleek, you leave as a more well-rounded person and professional. Sleek is also a proudly certified B Corp. Since we started our journey in 2017, we've been committed to building Sleek as a force for good. In just over 5 years, we've joined a community of industry leaders like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, and P&G who are building an inclusive, equitable, and a regenerative economy. We have planted over 29,271 trees to reforest our ecosystem and saved 7 tons of paper from landfills by processing over 1.4M pages through SleekSign. We aim to be Carbon Neutral by 2030.

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