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AI Job Search: My $340K Headway Offer, Including a $20K Sign-On
How I used AI to improve my resume, find matching software engineering roles, and apply, leading to a $340K Headway offer that includes a $20K sign-on bonus.
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Technical Design Doc Template: The 8 Sections I Write Without AI
How to write a technical design document: understand the task, weigh trade-offs, learn your company's stack, then fill an 8-section template, without AI.
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How I Code Review a 50,000-Line AI-Generated Feature
How Austin Starks code reviews a 50,000-line AI-generated pull request before shipping it to NexusTrade, the platform trading $40,000+ of his own money.
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Wait for a Requirement Before Adding a Queue
A queue adds infrastructure to maintain and another cloud bill. Wait for a requirement to justify it.
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Trading System Design: Junior Engineer Architecture
Part 1 of Austin’s trading system design series starts with a single-process application. It covers persistent order intent, stable order IDs, an…
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How I Use Codex to Find and Apply to Software Engineering Jobs
How a software engineer uses Codex to find remote, high-paying jobs, apply directly on company sites, and land offers at Coinbase, Figma and Headway.
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Stop Using GitHub Job Repos and LinkedIn for SWE Jobs
Why a software engineer with a $350K offer skips GitHub job repos and uses LinkedIn sparingly when looking for software engineering jobs.
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How to Pass the AI Coding Interview at Big Tech Companies
How to pass the AI coding interview: understand the codebase with a diagram, plan, review the plan out loud, and finish with test-driven development.
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How to Negotiate a Software Engineer Salary: My $210K Base Offer
A software engineer's three steps to negotiating a $210K base salary and a $20K sign-on bonus: interviews, rare expertise, and a competing offer.
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I Turned Down Figma for a Series D Startup. Here Are My 3 Reasons.
Why a software engineer turned down Figma for Headway, a Series D startup: the recruiting process, a side project policy, and a $210K offer.
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Figma vs. a Startup: Two $300K Jobs, and I’m Leaning Figma
Figma or a Series D startup? Austin Starks compares two remote software engineering opportunities around $300K and explains why he is leaning Figma.
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How to Read a Flamegraph: I Cut My Backtest Time in Half
Reading a real flamegraph from a Rust backtesting engine: the fixes that halved a ten-minute options backtest, and the parallel loop that made it 73% slower.
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What Is Lookahead Bias? Why Your Vectorized Backtest Is Lying
Why a vectorized Python backtest can show a fake equity curve: lookahead bias, position-dependent rules, and how an event-driven backtester avoids them.
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Figma Job Offer: I Turned Down $475K, Then Accepted My Dream Job
Austin Starks accepted a $300K-plus Figma software engineering offer after rejecting a $475K-plus package. His dream-job announcement sets up part two.
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3 Skills You Need to Get a Big Tech Software Engineering Job ($300K a Year)
The 3 skills that got me a $300K big tech software engineering job: AI-driven development, systems design, and solving LeetCode mediums in 20 minutes.
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Figma Software Engineer Offer After 6 Months of LeetCode: $300K a Year
I got a Figma software engineer offer after six months of LeetCode and system design prep. Around $300K a year, with Figma's revenue and gross profit growth.
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System Design Interview: From 1 User to 1 Million. Eight Steps.
Eight system design interview steps that take one app from a single server to one million users: cache, replicas, a CDN, a queue, then shards.
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Senior AI Engineer or Big Tech? The Job-Offer Trade-Off
Senior AI engineer or big tech? Compare title, equity, growth, liquidity, AI work, and career upside before choosing a job offer.