Associate Software Engineer (College Graduate 2027)
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- At Solace, you won’t be relegated to small bug fixes or endless onboarding—you’ll ship real features to real users within your first weeks
- This isn’t a hand-holding job
- You’ll be challenged daily, expected to move fast, learn faster, and take ownership of your work like a seasoned engineer
- You’ll join a spectacularly talented team who will push you to grow, but you’ll also be expected to think independently, ask the right questions, and own your work from design through deployment
- You will commit code daily
- You will make mistakes
- You will learn from them and get better every single day
- If you’re the kind of person who wants to be thrown into the deep end and come out stronger, keep reading
- Ship production code in your first week—real features that impact real users
- Build across the stack, from database queries to API endpoints to UI components, learning the full lifecycle of software development
- Take ownership of features end-to-end. You’ll be accountable for what you build, and you’ll feel the weight and pride of that responsibility
- Work directly with senior engineers, product managers, and designers. You’ll have mentorship, but you’ll also be expected to drive your own work forward
- Debug production issues, refactor messy code, and improve systems—not glamorous, but essential, and you’ll learn more from this than any bootcamp could teach you
- Move fast and iterate. We deploy continuously, and you’ll see your code in production within hours, not weeks
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and product planning. Your voice matters here, even on day one
- What You’ll Learn:
- You’ll be working in our modern tech stack and will gain hands-on experience with:
- Typescript across all our applications
- NestJS API with TypeORM
- Postgres and Redis
- React with our custom UI library built on shadcn
- Tailwind CSS
- You are scrappy, resourceful, and eager to prove yourself. You don’t need all the answers—you need the drive to find them. You’re not afraid of ambiguity or hard problems; in fact, they excite you. You take feedback like fuel, and you’re looking for a place that will invest in making you exceptional, not comfortable
- Experience with at least one modern programming language (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.). Bonus if you’ve worked with TypeScript, React, or Node.js
- Grit. You don’t give up when things get hard. You Google, you ask questions, you figure it out
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)—graduating between December 2026 and June 2027
- Strong communication skills. You can explain your thinking, take feedback without defensiveness, and collaborate with people who aren’t engineers
- A hunger to learn and an ego small enough to admit when you don’t know something
- Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Projects that show you can build real things—personal projects, hackathons, internships, open source contributions. We care about what you’ve shipped, not just what you studied
- Extreme bias toward action. You’d rather ship something imperfect and iterate than wait for perfect