Software Engineer, Product — Assists.com
Compensation: $80,000–$120,000 base + benefits Location: NYC (in-office)
About Assists.com
Assists.com is the leading next-generation senior living marketplace, helping families across the U.S. find the right home for the people they love. We’ve onboarded 60,000+ communities, helped thousands of families, and earn a referral fee of $5,000–$10,000 per placement.
Founded in 2023 by the founder of a unicorn (Flexport), we’re one of the fastest-growing startups in NYC. We move fast, set a high bar, and care deeply about the families we serve.
The Role
You’ll build the family-facing experiences and internal tools that power how millions of people find senior care for the people they love. You’ll ship features end-to-end, see your work in production quickly, and have meaningful ownership over both the product and engineering culture as we grow.
What You’ll Do
- Build and improve the systems that power our family-facing platform
- Develop personalization features that match families to the right communities
- Improve speed, reliability, and user experience as traffic grows
- Partner with product, content, and operations to launch experiments and new features
What You Bring
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent technical experience
- Hands-on experience with WordPress and PHP
- Strong sense for what makes a high-quality, fast, user-friendly web experience
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL/MariaDB)
- Bias toward action — you’d rather ship and iterate than wait for perfect requirements
- Strong written communication
Bonus:
- Web performance optimization (page speed, caching, image optimization)
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Cloudflare, GCP)
- A/B testing or growth experimentation
- Comfort with analytics tools and SQL
- Personal experience helping a parent or grandparent navigate senior care