Software Generalist at Open Orion, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
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Jul 28, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack engineering role at a small startup building engineering simulation software, focused on interactive 3D geometry visualization, backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines. The work spans React-based UIs, Python/Node.js services, AWS infrastructure, and geometry/mesh processing. Suited to a generalist engineer comfortable owning broad surface area and shipping quickly on a small team.
Mid level · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,650 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,250–2,150
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
No total years of experience are stated; seniority is assessed from scope (full-stack ownership across frontend, backend, infra, and data pipelines on a small team) which points to Mid-level rather than Junior, but the posting does not use a seniority label in the title.
FastAPI, Flask, and Django are listed as interchangeable Python backend options under the required section; FastAPI is listed first and used as the primary skill name with the others as alternatives.
AWS is listed with specific services (EC2, S3, Lambda) but 'or similar' is appended, indicating cloud platform flexibility; Azure and GCP are listed as alternatives.
Node.js appears in the 'What You'll Do' responsibilities section rather than the requirements block, so it is marked as preferred.
Three.js, Docker, CI/CD, WebSockets, Terraform/AWS CDK, and computational geometry concepts all appear under the explicit 'Strong pluses' heading.
Compensation is described only as 'competitive salary with equity options' — no figures are provided.
The posting strongly emphasizes a GitHub or portfolio link as a top priority signal for candidates.
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