Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This new graduate Software Engineer role is notable in the SaaS landscape because it sits at the intersection of product engineering and platform scalability. Airtable operates as a work-management and database-like SaaS product, so core engineering work tends to translate directly into customer-facing capability, reliability, and usability across a wide range of use cases.
For a long-term SaaS career, the breadth across backend, full stack, infrastructure, and AI creates early exposure to the full lifecycle of shipping and operating software that must perform consistently for many businesses. The emphasis on reusable systems, abstractions, and architectural improvement aligns with the kind of engineering maturity that becomes increasingly valuable as SaaS products expand feature surface area, integrate more services, and respond to user feedback with measurable iteration.
This position fits early-career engineers who prefer being generalists and want to build judgment around tradeoffs, when to refactor, when to optimize, and how to collaborate with product and design. It also suits those who benefit from structured onboarding and mentorship while developing practical habits around code review, technical discussion, and user-centered decision-making in a SaaS product environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
As a software engineer at Airtable, you'll collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams to build innovative solutions that help our customers work more effectively. We're hiring across a broad range of teams, including backend, full stack, infrastructure, and AI. You'll join a highly talented, diverse team and work on high-impact features.
We're looking for ambitious engineers who want to grow quickly - you'll be paired with mentorship and join a supportive team that will help accelerate your technical and leadership development.
Required:
- 2026 Graduate
- You must reside in or be open to relocating to our offices in either San Francisco or New York City for this position
- You will be required to work 2 days/week in-office.
- You will start with our July/August 2026 Cohort
Deadline to apply: March 6th, 2026
What you'll do
- Design and implement high-quality product features that are fast, reliable, and user-friendly
- Work across the stack, from backend services to frontend interfaces
- Create reusable and maintainable systems and abstractions that help us scale
- Drive technical decisions and architectural improvements within your team
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
- Identify opportunities to improve Airtable based on data and user feedback
- Learn our systems and best practices through structured onboarding and mentorship
Who you are
- You’re a software engineering generalist who values user-centric product development
- You must be graduating from an engineering degree seeking program (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in 2026
- You have experience in computer science, data structures, algorithms and software design
- You are experienced in software development and coding in a general purpose programming language
- You derive joy from refactoring and building clean abstractions in order to make complex systems fun to develop and easy to understand
- You take a thoughtful approach to decision-making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right
- You are interested in building cutting-edge AI products
Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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