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title: 'Full Stack Software Engineer at Strella'
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# Full Stack Software Engineer at Strella

- **Company:** Strella
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/strella/4b3c3e18-956b-4fa8-8c54-8d022bd6475e

## Job description

## ABOUT STRELLA

Strella is transforming how businesses gather and use customer insights with AI-moderated interviews and real-time synthesis, delivering human insights in hours instead of weeks. Our mission is to make fast, high-quality customer insights accessible to every business. We are a venture-backed startup and we’re looking to grow our team significantly in 2025 - join us!

We are seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer who embodies both technical excellence and a relentless drive to elevate our products. As one of our early engineers, you will play a large role in building our first customer-facing product.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Develop and maintain high-quality frontend and backend software solutions.
- Take full ownership of projects, from conception to deployment, ensuring robustness, scalability, and minimal technical debt.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate needs into technical solutions.
- Proactively improve existing systems, anticipating high-value projects and executing them autonomously.

YOU ARE A GOOD FIT FOR THIS ROLE IF

- You have a strong bias for speed and action. You ship high-quality products daily, independently resolving bugs and roadblocks
- You demonstrate exceptional proactivity in system and process improvements, autonomously executing high-value projects and delivering comprehensive solutions for large problems.
- You are knowledgeable about tools and strategies for quality product development, capable of independent project architecture with occasional support.
- You are a team player who isn’t afraid to work cross-functionally and exercise their product thinking skills
- You solve problems with first principles thinking and always come with solutions

## QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in full-stack development. Particularly, significant experience leading projects.
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamental concepts and web development
- Familiar with languages like JavaScript, Typescript, Node.js, React, REST APIs, PostgreSQL databases, Tailwind CSS, Vercel, GCP
- Highly comfortable with LLM prompt engineering in production software systems
- Proficiency in designing scalable, robust, and efficient software architectures. This includes making decisions about the overall structure of the application, selecting appropriate design patterns, and foreseeing potential future needs or changes.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

## BENEFITS

- Competitive salary
- Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Flexible PTO

## COMP

- Let’s talk

## About Strella

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Strella is an AI-powered customer research platform that automates in-depth interviews and delivers actionable human insights, enabling teams to run 100 customer interviews and get results by the next morning.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (with offices in Poland and the United Kingdom)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Lydia Hylton (CEO) and Priya Krishnan (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Customer Research, AI-powered SaaS, Market Research Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – Product teams, UX Researchers, Marketing, Strategy, and Consumer Insights teams at enterprises and fast-growing companies (e.g., Amazon, Chobani, Daily Harvest)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “AI-powered customer research that delivers human insights 10x faster, so teams can make smarter decisions in hours, not weeks.”

## Products & Services
- **Strella Platform (AI-Powered Customer Research)**: An end-to-end SaaS platform that uses AI to moderate in-depth customer interviews, synthesize themes, and generate highlight reels and reports. Supports 46+ languages, offers access to up to 8M global participants via a built-in panel, and includes features like AI-generated discussion guides, real-time probing, and a chat interface to query research results. Covers usability testing, concept testing, exploratory research, customer journey mapping, and market research.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $18M (Seed: $4M from Decibel Partners in Oct 2024; Series A: $14M led by Bessemer Venture Partners in Nov 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bessemer Venture Partners (lead Series A), Decibel Partners (lead Seed), Future Back Ventures, MVP Ventures; customers include Amazon, Chobani, Daily Harvest
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 187.5% year-over-year (from ~8 to 23 employees as of May 2026); expanding globally with offices in Poland and UK; featured in VentureBeat; increasing LinkedIn following (+221.5% yearly to ~3,784 followers). The platform delivers a 90% time-saving compared to manual qualitative research and a 70% cost-saving compared to focus groups.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first moderation**: AI conducts and probes interviews in real-time, removing human bias and enabling massive scalability (100+ interviews overnight) without sacrificing depth.
- **Speed + Quality combination**: Claims to eliminate the trade-off between high-quality customer research and speed, delivering synthesized insights in hours, not weeks.
- **Built-in participant panel**: Access to 8M global participants reduces recruitment friction, supporting both B2B and B2C research.
- **Multilingual capability**: Conducts research in 46+ languages, enabling global market research without translation barriers.
- **Synthesis at every level**: AI automatically analyzes themes across participants, objectives, and segments, and creates video highlight reels – making insights shareable and actionable.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product & Engineering**: Continuing to enhance the AI moderator’s intelligence and depth, expanding the chat-based insights interface, and improving the discussion guide generation.
- **Go-to-Market**: Scaling enterprise sales (adding Strategy & Operations and Account Executive roles) and building brand awareness via customer case studies and industry partnerships.
- **Global Expansion**: Strengthening presence in Europe (Poland, UK) while remaining headquartered in NYC.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage startup environment (23 people) with founders actively involved. Described as a fast-paced, high-impact place where employees shape the product and culture. Talent sourced from companies like Bain & Company, Microsoft, and Shell.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid model – expected to work on-site in either San Francisco (Engineering) or New York City (Marketing, GTM). Roles are posted as “Hybrid” (SF or NYC) or “On-site (SF or NYC).”
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Small engineering team (7 technical staff) with high ownership and direct impact on the core AI product. Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI/LLM applications for interview moderation and synthesis. Fast-growing company with strong investor backing and customer traction.

## Sources
1. [strella.io](https://www.strella.io/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/strella-io)
3. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/strella/__ld-clNuRbgOxWy2zCq2jX1N6BrTBniup5Qsq5ReiwkM)
4. [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/strella)
5. [strella.io/careers](https://www.strella.io/careers)
6. VentureBeat article (October 16, 2025) – cited in Tracxn profile

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