
Growth Engineer
San Francisco, CAFull-time$150–220K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Circleback is hiring its first growth engineer to own product-led growth engineering, working closely with the founders and Founding Marketer. The role focuses on improving signup, onboarding, activation, and retention; understanding how product adoption spreads across teams; and building analytics, experimentation, and in-product growth features across web, desktop, and mobile.
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Full job description
About Circleback Circleback is building the source of truth for everything said at a company–starting with best-in-class AI meeting notes, action items, and search. Every company runs on conversations — meetings, calls, emails — but almost none of that context is usable after the fact. We’re building the platform that captures, organizes, and acts on all of it, so teams can actually use what they know. We're a small team backed by Y Combinator. Profitable, growing virally, and thousands of paying customers including PostHog, Browserbase, Gumloop, and more.
Why join
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We ship fast with a high bar for quality.
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Small team, large problem: the category we're building didn't exist a few years ago.
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Profitable and growing virally through word of mouth, not paid acquisition.
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Build software people actually love and use every day.
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Free lunch and dinners, competitive salary and equity.
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Flexible health coverage and 401K matching.
The Role Circleback grows through the product itself. People get notes from a meeting with someone already using it, like what they see, and try it. Then it spreads inside their company. You'll be our first growth hire. You'll own growth engineering from day one, decide what we build and test, and have plenty of room to grow your scope as the company grows. You'll focus on what happens inside the product, working closely with the founders and our Founding Marketer, who owns channels and brand. You'll ship across the stack as part of a small team. What You'll Do
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Improve every step of the product-led loop: the notes a non-user receives after a meeting, signup, onboarding, and activation.
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Figure out why Circleback spreads to the whole team at some companies and stays with a few people at others, and build the product changes that close that gap.
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Build and maintain our analytics and experimentation foundation: event instrumentation, attribution, dashboards, and A/B tests the whole team trusts.
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Improve retention by learning what keeps people using Circleback long term and getting more people there.
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Ship in-product growth surfaces like upgrade flows, referral tools, and integrations. You'll work in web (React, Next.js, Prisma, SWR), desktop (Electron, Swift), and mobile (React Native).
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Work with the Founding Marketer on what to test, and share what you learn.
You might be a good fit if
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You've shipped production software, including growth experiments, and you've instrumented a funnel yourself (signup conversion, activation, or retention).
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You're comfortable digging into data yourself, whether that's writing queries or reading a funnel, and you're as happy doing that as shipping a feature.
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You care about users as much as implementation.
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You have strong product judgment and care about experiments that move signup, activation, or retention.
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You're low ego, direct, and comfortable operating without much process.
People who've thrived here have often been former founders, early startup engineers, or engineers who've owned features end-to-end. You don't need that exact background. We care much more about how you think and what you've built. Interview Process
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Recruiter screen
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Hiring manager conversation, including a walkthrough of a growth experiment you've shipped
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Technical interview
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Paid two-day work trial in San Francisco
How this job compares
Set against the 40,501 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–220K/yr
- California median$165–245K/yr7,649 salary ranges
- US median$135–217K/yr32,212 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $185K, is 10% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,523 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 40,501 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (32,858 postings).
- Education
- 14,142 of the 40,501 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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