Central
Eliminating business bullshit: payroll, benefits, compliance, etc
Staff Software Engineer - Full-Stack
About the role
Responsibilities
- Define, architect, build, and maintain great software
- Ship all the time
- Make customers happy
- Help build a world-class team
Requirements
- You have 6+ years of experience in professional full-stack development
- You consider yourself in the top 5% of your peers
- You are a clear thinker and communicator
- You want to win
- You believe work and life should be intertwined
- You know how to be productive in a startup environment
About the interview
Our interview process is designed to find engineers who align with our values. We focus on relevant skills that mirror the work we do—primarily full-stack development with a strong emphasis on customer-centric features. We aim to assess your ability to build, iterate, and ship quickly while maintaining the quality our customers expect.
Below is what to expect in our interview process. If you have questions, feel free to email us at hiring@central.inc.
Application
We ask every candidate to fill out a basic application which includes a few questions you will answer via recorded audio. This gives you a chance to tell us more about who you are and why you’d be a good fit for Central.
Take Home Project
We provide a take home project that allows you to showcase your technical and product skills.
“Onsite” Interview
The “onsite” interview, which is mostly done remotely these days, is a comprehensive assessment of your technical abilities, product thinking, and cultural fit. We’ll be looking for your ability to take ownership, your bias towards action, and how well you communicate your ideas.
Each interview is 1 hour long, with 45 minutes dedicated to the technical portion and 15 minutes for Q&A. The process is designed to give you a chance to showcase your skills in a variety of areas, including:
- Programming Exercise: Similar to the technical screen, we’ll ask you to solve a coding problem in your preferred language. We want to see how you approach the problem, write, test, and debug your solution, and discuss the tradeoffs you’ve made.
- Database/Systems Design: We’ll discuss how you’d design the schema and manage a relational database like Postgres, focusing on performance considerations and best practices.
- Debugging: You’ll be given a piece of code to debug, and we’ll assess how you approach finding and fixing issues.
- Founder Interview: Another session with one of our founders to further explore your motivations, interests, and how they align with Central’s mission.
Timing
The typical interview process takes 1-2 weeks from start to finish, though we can expedite it if needed. We’re happy to accommodate candidates with competing offers or tight timelines. The more information you can share about your situation, the better we can tailor the process to your needs.
About Central
We have a generational opportunity to reinvent how a company is operated. Our customers are working on incredibly ambitious problems like curing brain cancer, making the police force more efficient, preventing medical mistakes in hospitals, improving energy efficiency, and reducing our carbon footprint. Imagine what the world could look like if they all had 30% more time to focus on those problems instead of spending it on back-office bullsh*t — it’s extremely high leverage.
We envision a world where someone can start and operate a compliant businesses with a click of a button. Central handles payroll, benefits, hr, compliance, government filings, mail handling, and much more out-of-the-box so founders can focus on more important problems.
We’re building something special in a massive market. As one of our first 10 employees, you have an opportunity to be a major part of the story. Central is very likely to accelerate your career. Just see what our customers are saying:
The Slack bot never fails to impress. I’m so happy I never have to touch HR software again.
Awesome and simple to use. Always take inspiration from how clean and straightforward you make using Central
Since we got our first invoice from Central today, just wanted to reach out and say I think this is the best $150 I’ve ever spent :)
Highly recommend. 10x better than our former stack (Gusto, QBO, bill.com)
