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title: 'Software Engineer at Level'
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# Software Engineer at Level

- **Company:** Level
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/level/am9icG9zdDpFwYRnsfHnZvMwFRxPnSiM

## Job description

## About us

We’re a fast-growing startup rethinking how back-office work gets done in financial services. Our first product helps automotive lenders resolve insurance claims more effectively, delivering better outcomes for both lenders and consumers through automation and AI. Small improvements can unlock significant value for our customers. Along the way, we’ve helped consumers avoid millions in debt.

Our work spans a wide range of engineering challenges — from building core application features and integrations, to designing reliable infrastructure, to creating AI/LLM-driven workflows that automate complex processes.

We’re an early stage venture-backed startup and scaling quickly. We’re scrappy, intentional, and focused on solving real problems for our customers. We bias toward shipping, learning fast, and building solutions that work in the real world.

Our headquarters is in New York City, and our team is distributed.

We’re backed by leading investors including 81 Collection, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Capital One Ventures.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/startwithlevel/

## The role

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. This is a generalist role and you are encouraged to apply no matter your expertise. We have opportunities across the stack. You can expect to own projects end-to-end, have customer facing engagements, and make foundational technical decisions that will shape our product and culture for years to come.

Some of your work will involve AI/LLM-based systems, but just as much will involve building the surrounding product and infrastructure that makes those systems valuable to our customers. If you enjoy tackling different kinds of problems, moving quickly, and taking ownership, this role is for you.

## What you’ll do

- Build features across the stack based on your strengths and the business’s highest priorities: backend services, frontend interfaces, integrations, agents and infrastructure.
- Design and implement AI/LLM-driven workflows as part of our automation platform.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into clear, functioning software.
- Balance speed with technical rigor, knowing when to optimize for learning and when to invest in durability.
- Help define and evolve our engineering practices and technical culture.
- Collaborate closely with the founding team and customers to shape product direction.

## What we’re looking for

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with exposure to fast-moving or startup environments.
- Strong technical depth: you can design systems, not just implement them.
- A generalist mindset, with the ability and confidence to work across multiple parts of the stack.
- Pragmatism: you can ship quickly without sacrificing critical quality.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward ownership and action. Bonus points for:
- Experience working with LLMs or building AI-driven applications.
- Background in fintech, insurance, or workflow-heavy enterprise products.
- Prior experience as an early-stage engineer or founder
- Contributions to open-source or research projects. Stack:
- Cloud & Infrastructure AWS- AWS Lambda
- Amazon ECS
- Backend- Python
- FastAPI
- Databases & Storage- Amazon DynamoDB
- PostgreSQL
- S3
- Frontend- React/Nextjs
- Typescript

## Our values

- Customer-first – we focus on solving real customer problems.
- Bias to action – more doing and fast learning help us deliver the right solutions.
- Ownership – no silos, no excuses: we all take responsibility.
- Strong opinions, open minds – clear points of view, constructive debate, open to better ideas, learning from each other

## Compensation & benefits

- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Unlimited PTO and flexible hours.
- New equipment to support your best work.
- Regular offsites and team travel budget to get together in person
- The opportunity to play a foundational role in shaping both the product and the company. 📍 HQ in NYC, distributed team.

## About Level

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Level designs and manufactures invisible smart locks and home access technology that fits entirely inside existing door hardware, preserving a home's original aesthetic.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by ASSA ABLOY AB in September 2024; operates as a subsidiary)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: John Martin (CEO) and other ex-Apple Product and Engineering leaders

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Smart home technology, consumer electronics, physical access solutions
- Target customers: B2C (homeowners, renters), B2B (property managers, multifamily housing), and channel partners (retail, smart home ecosystem integrators)
- Mission or purpose statement: To redefine the smart home with technology that is simple, intuitive, useful, and invisible — shifting focus from what they make to how they make it and who they make it for.

## Products & Services
- **Level Lock**: A complete smart lock that fits entirely inside the door, preserving the look of existing hardware. Offers keyless entry, remote access, and voice control via Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and SmartThings.
- **Level Bolt**: A retrofit smart lock that converts an existing deadbolt into a smart lock, keeping the exterior keypad and keyhole unchanged.
- **Level Lock Pro**: The latest flagship model, adding Ultra-Wideband (UWB) support for hands-free proximity unlocking. Winner of the 2025 Good Design Award in the Safety & Security category.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (acquired by ASSA ABLOY, a $30B+ market cap company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $82M (estimated); Total Funding of $171M prior to acquisition
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Cox Communications (led Series C), Walmart, Hut 8 Corp. Parent company: ASSA ABLOY (global leader in access solutions with ~63,000 employees). Key integrations include SmartThings, Josh.ai, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, Amazon Alexa.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired by ASSA ABLOY in September 2024 for accelerated innovation and global reach; launched Level Lock Pro with UWB in 2025; received 2025 Good Design Award; has issued 10 distinct electro-mechanical patents; tested to 250,000 operation cycles; available on Amazon.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Invisible design moat**: The core differentiator is that Level locks fit entirely inside the door, preserving the home's original hardware aesthetic — a unique position in a market dominated by bulky, visible smart locks.
- **Apple-caliber design DNA**: Founded by ex-Apple product and engineering leaders, the company brings a design-first, user-experience-focused approach to an otherwise utilitarian category.
- **Patented technology**: 10 distinct electro-mechanical patents create a defensible IP position.
- **ASSA ABLOY backing**: As part of the global leader in access solutions, Level gains supply chain scale, manufacturing expertise, and distribution reach while retaining its independent brand and design culture.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce growth and scaling paid digital channels (Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest).
- Expanding into the professional installer and multifamily housing market through partnerships and integrations.
- Continuing to push the "invisible design" ethos into new product categories and form factors.
- Leveraging ASSA ABLOY's global footprint to expand internationally.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a blank canvas where bold ideas and honest problem-solving are encouraged. Collaboration, curiosity, and a focus on "functional and beautifully practical" design are core values. Employee rating is 4.4/5.0 (51 reviews) with high marks for Work-Life (4.6) and Culture (4.4).
- **Work Model**: Fully remote team with occasional in-person collaboration opportunities. The headquarters is in Redwood City, CA, but roles are open to remote candidates.
- **Compensation**: Competitive base salary (e.g., Performance Marketing Manager range $135K-$165K) plus performance bonuses, 401(k), comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, and generous PTO.
- **Best for**: Engineers, product designers, and marketers who want the agility and culture of a startup combined with the global scale and stability of ASSA ABLOY. Particularly appealing to those passionate about hardware, consumer electronics, and design-forward products.
- **Notable Perks**: Education assistance, work with a passionate team building a design-forward brand, hands-on experience with innovative hardware products used globally.

## Sources
1. [level.co - About Us/Careers](https://level.co/about-us/careers/)
2. [level.co - Performance Marketing Manager Job Posting](https://level.co/about-us/careers/performance-marketing-manager/)
3. [LinkedIn - Level Home](https://linkedin.com/company/levellock)
4. [LeadIQ - Level Home Company Overview](https://leadiq.com/c/level-home/5da5a4c5408f0cc3d921d1fb)
5. [Prospeo - Level Home Overview](https://prospeo.io/c/level-home)

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