Software Engineer, Growth
Austin, TX · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Austin, TX
About the role
- Base is hiring a full stack engineer to own the products and systems that drive acquisition, activation, and retention.
- This involves experimenting on and scaling existing products as well as building new growth products and infrastructure from scratch.
Responsibilities
- Turn ideas into shipped tests across the member journey, from redesigned sign-up flows to paid ads campaigns and referral experiences
- Write the code, read the results and decide what to test next
- Own the products and systems that drive acquisition, activation and retention
- Build the growth infrastructure that makes experimentation fast and trustworthy, including the data pipeline behind it
- Use judgment on where to create leverage and which problems are worth solving, optimizing for conversion without sacrificing clarity or trust
- Find opportunities and work from first principles rather than executing a handed-down roadmap
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience building production software in product or full-stack engineering roles
- Strong frontend and full-stack engineering skills, with comfort across modern web applications, APIs, data models, and stateful user experiences
- Strong product judgment and a track record of turning ambiguous ideas into shipped, useful products
- Experience building in 0-to-1 or fast-moving environments where user needs, product shape, and success metrics are still evolving
- Experience using product analytics, experimentation, and data to guide decisions
- Ready to work with intensity and urgency, and to hold a high bar for your own output
Skills
- Full-stack Engineering
- Modern Web Applications
- APIs
- Data Models
- Stateful User Experiences
- Product Analytics
- Experimentation
