Software Engineer (C#) at Boostdraft

C# or/and Rust software engineering position in a highly-growing startup, developing a document IDE for non-engineers.

About BoostDraft

BoostDraft is a software engineering company that develops IDE for documents. It was founded by MIT and Stanford grad students, developing an assisted document editor for documents. It is a new document editor that employs error checking, reference checking and auto-completion using both rule-based approach and NLP, like what coding editors/IDE (e.g. VSCode, Pycharm) do.

Demo is in p9, 10, 11, https://link.boostdraft.com/sh1K

Background & Traction

We are currently focusing on Lawyers who draft relatively standardized but long documents, such as contracts. With only one year after our product launch, we already have more than 7,000 active paid users. We have several long-term, large-scale contracts with famed enterprises and law firms. As a result, we have been highly profitable from Day 1 and experienced exponential growth without outside funding at all.

BoostDraft was accepted by prestigious accelerator program, MassChallenge (Top 30 US accelerator), StartX (Stanford Accelerator, 7% acceptance rate), MIT Sandbox (Accelerator of Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Join our Engineering-First Team

At BoostDraft, we prioritize quality over quantity. As an engineering-first company. Around 90% of our team members are software engineers with extensive experiences from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HTC, Yahoo!, and R&D in NTT. Our CEO, Yohei, who has proven experience in both Software Engineering and Business management, and has built an organization that values and empowers software engineers.

Technical Challenges We Solve

• Performance improvement using both partial analysis and full analysis
• Synchronization between user input and on-memory text
• Cache efficiency to increase highlight performance t during/after user input
• Security preserving Natural Language Processing, such as Federated Learning

What’s your challenge

As a C# Software Engineer at BoostDraft, you will be tackling challenging technical problems, including:

• Design and implement classes and methods for IDE for documents
• Refactor existing code for better extensibility
• Interview with our users to understand their daily work and pain points
• Propose both innovative ideas and feasible ideas to achieve unprecedented features