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Software Engineer, Core Product (Early Career)- San Francisco HQ

Orb

Orb

Software Engineering, Product
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 19, 2026

Location

HQ-San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Compensation

  • $160K – $175K • Offers Equity

About Orb:
We're a team that cares deeply about the work, the people we do it with, and the customers we do it for. Everyone at Orb has real ownership over their work, direct access to customers, and a voice in how the company grows.

We're at a stage where the decisions you make today show up in the product tomorrow. The problems are genuinely interesting and you'll be surrounded by people who are thoughtful, ambitious, and fun to work with.

For SF Bay Area and NYC residents, we've built a hybrid work culture where we are in office 3 days a week. For remote roles, we ask you to join us in person once a quarter. Our values, customer centricity, minutes matter, run with it, and attention to detail shape how we work and grow as a team.

About the role:

As an early engineer on Orb's core product team, you'll help build the technical foundations of a critical product that needs to be reliable and accurate at scale. You'll work closely with our customers to understand pain points in their business processes and help incorporate those insights into our product roadmap. Our customers rely on Orb to transform an inherently complex domain (billing, from data ingestion to subscription management and revenue recognition) into an efficient, powerful, and easy-to-use experience.

You'll be expected to ship real work fast, using AI coding tools as a force multiplier from day one.

In this role you will:

  • Own your changes end-to-end across the full stack, ensuring value is delivered to customers before considering a feature shipped

  • Use AI tools (Claude Code, Graphite, etc.) as a core part of your workflow to design, build, and iterate quickly

  • Learn from and contribute to a highly skilled team

  • Collaborate cross-functionally (PM, design, sales, customer success) to shape strategy and deliver value

About you:

  • New grad or early-career engineer (0–2 years) with strong full-stack fundamentals

  • Comfortable using AI coding tools and eager to push the limits of what they can do

  • Enthusiastic about working on a broad range of technical challenges across the stack

  • Strong attention to detail with deep user empathy, in visual UX, API design, and everything in between

  • Excited to engage directly with customers to shape the Orb product

  • Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate (with support from Orb)

Benefits:

  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • One Medical membership

  • Unlimited PTO plus an additional week off between Christmas and New Year’s

  • 401k plan

  • 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting

  • Commuter stipend

  • Catered lunches in the office

  • Annual learning & development stipend

  • Meaningful equity in the form of stock options

Equal Opportunity Employer

We work with each other day in and day out, and strongly believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is key to our long-term goals and success as a company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Compensation Range: $160K - $175K