Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

Location

San Francisco Office

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

Overview

Complete is on a mission to make compensation a winning advantage for the world's highest-impact companies. We are breaking compensation workflows out from spreadsheets and bringing them into the 21st century — think leveling and compensation cycle planning, total rewards statements for employees, [interactive candidate offers](#), and much more!

Why Complete?

We realize that Compensation is a key determinant to a company's success (and their biggest spend!). Yet, enterprises lack the expertise to build and operate a defensible compensation strategy, making it one of the most costly mistakes to their financial and operational efficiency. We believe that companies with creative compensation strategies are winning today and will continue to do so. Complete is backed by Accel and YC. We're also lucky to count technology leaders and operators like Will Larson (CTO of Carta), Eric Sagar (COO of Plaid), and Mathilde Collin (CEO of Front) as our angels and advisors.

Who we are?

🎯 We’re exceptionally product-minded builders. We obsess over quality and believe that software built in the 21st century should not require product trainings.
💜 Our culture is best described as low ego and painstakingly fast. Companies do not need big teams to prove PMF — they need focus.
🥇We’re a small team of < 10 with exceptional product and business acumen. It’s allowed us to compete and consistently win against competitors and this is your chance to get in on the ground floor!
⭐ Our customers include startups like Linear and Brex to public companies like Roblox, adding amazing logos every day...
🏢 We work in person in our SF office near Embarcadero BART, 4-5 days/week. We believe that bringing talented folks together in one room (with lots of whiteboards) is fastest way to win as a startup.

What are we looking for?

Complete is at an exciting inflection point and we’re looking for Senior or Staff Engineers to help scale us to $XXM+ ARR. You'll be a great fit if you like to move with urgency and high agency. We're engineers obsessed with customer outcomes who love challenging status quo. At a high level there are three areas you can expect to lean on at Complete:

Ownership:

We need experienced engineers who can own and grow entire lines of businesses end-to-end.

Autonomy:

We value autonomy believing small teams of highly experienced product engineers create magic!

Scale:

We're scaling! To new countries, X0k+ users & high-profile logos. We’re actively winning enterprise segment working on deep problems like revamping authorization, c ustomizability, observability, security & more.

Tech stack

We believe best engineers can operate in any tech stack especially now with AI tooling (Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor). Our core stack:

Python (Django) with Postgres
GraphQL API (Strawberry)
React frontend + React Query
Clerk for auth
Merge for ATS & HRIS integrations
Datadog,

Sentry, LaunchDarkly

GitHub,

Docker, Graphite, Slack, Notion, Linear We want to see what else YOU might add as we evolve!