Coding copilots solve the last mile of software development.

How will AI solve everything else?

So much of the work that happens in R&D organizations has little to do with writing code. How will prioritization, collaboration, communication, review, and people management be refactored in the age of AI?

Span is an software development intelligence platform that enables R&D teams to build software together more efficiently, without coordination fatigue. We connect the data from your SDLC stack and HR stack to deliver insights to the right people, at the right time, and in the right tool — enhancing every process, interaction, and decision with superhuman context.

Our tool helps actively guide directly responsible people towards solutions towards problems such as:

• How do we make 1:1s and sprint retros more productive by surfacing context proactively?
• A project is behind schedule, why and what can be done about it? What scope should we cut?
• Which teams are spending an unexpected amount of time firefighting? Which teams are underinvesting in tech debt?
• What are the highest ROI investments we can make to improve developer experience?
• Who’s blocked and siloed and why?

We’re a team of experienced builders backed by Altman Capital, BoxGroup, Craft Ventures, SV Angel and dozens of founders from places like Notion, Slack, Instacart, Rippling, Opendoor, Fivetran, Branch, Lattice, Vanta and many more.

Co-Founders,

J Zac Stein, Henry Liu

Progress to date

Over the past 10 months, we’ve been building in “design partnership” for a cabal of companies that we respect. Our software is live and used by teams ranging from Series A startups to growth-stage unicorns to Fortune 500s. We are starting to see signs that we’re onto something big and are gearing up for go to market.

The role

We’re looking for a deeply technical backend engineer who will take our data pipeline, integrations architecture, and infrastructure to the next level. Here are some example problems you might solve for us:

• Create a LLM and RAG pipeline that is AST aware
• Create the data model and APIs powering service and code ownership for our customers
• Improve on our ELT architecture to scale to the next 10-100x
• Reduce analytics latency to minutes from hours