Magic

We are the Engineering Team at Magic, a Y Combinator (W15) company. We connect businesses to virtual assistants, with over $30MM raised to date. Our team is currently composed of 16 engineers in 7 countries, growing to 30 engineers worldwide in 2022. Full Stack Product Engineers - JavaScript and AWS Lambda, Principal Engineer - set high standards for code quality, agile process, product development. Tech stack: JavaScript, with React on the frontend and Node on AWS on the backend, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB for our databases. Our workplace: 90% async (very few meetings), open source or civic work supported, work at any time you want from anywhere. Learning culture: mentorship, pairing, talks, conferences, new technologies. Unique hiring process: in less than 3 hours, meet our in-house technical recruiter, meet a hiring manager for a culture fit and pre-tech interview, then choose from 3 ways to showcase your abilities (choose one): (a) simulated code review, (b) show and tell from one of your GitHub repos or (c) live-code pairing to build a to-do application.