Junior Developer - BodySpec

Junior Software Engineer

Are you tired of support roles where you just follow scripts and never touch real code? As a Junior Software Engineer at BodySpec, you’re part of our engineering team from day one. You’ll troubleshoot real technical problems, maintain and extend the tools our team and customers rely on, and learn to make design decisions that hold up as we scale. You’ll start close to our users, handling support and fixes, with a clear path to owning bigger pieces of our systems as you grow.

First-year Junior Software Engineers in Austin can expect to earn up to $70,170 in total cash compensation, plus equity.

You'll Love This Job If You Have:

• Technical Curiosity: You want to understand how systems actually work, not just restart them when they break. You dig into logs, trace errors, and don’t stop until you find the root cause.
• Systems Thinking: You know writing code is the easy part now, because AI tools draft a lot of it. What matters is deciding what to build and how it fits. You think about where a change lives, what it might break, who maintains it, and whether it makes sense for the business, not just whether it runs.
• Ownership: You close the loop. When you fix something, you write it up, and if it’s happened twice, you automate it so it doesn’t happen a third time. You don’t wait to be told to do the obvious next step.
• Communication Clarity: You can explain technical problems to non-technical people without talking down to them, and you write up issues and decisions so your teammates don’t waste time. Your Slack messages are clear, concise, and actionable.
• Knowing When to Ask: You know when to keep digging and when to ask a teammate. You don’t ping someone the moment you’re stuck, but you also don’t burn a day on something a five-minute conversation would solve. And you never sit on a critical issue trying to be a hero.
• Patience Without Passivity: You stay calm with frustrated users and stakeholders, but you’re not a pushover. No ticket is beneath you, and you push for real fixes, not just band-aids.

What Will You Do?

• Troubleshoot technical issues across our website, admin systems, and internal tools, mostly via Slack with internal teams and external stakeholders
• Maintain and extend our internal and external tools, from small fixes to new features
• Write scripts and queries to diagnose problems, pull data, and automate repetitive fixes
• Learn our system architecture and contribute to design decisions: how a change fits the system, what it costs to maintain, and whether it’s the right fix for the business
• Provide weekend tech and dev support on a rotating schedule managed by the team
• Document solutions and build internal knowledge bases so problems get solved faster over time
• Grow from fixing and extending code to designing systems, with the goal of owning larger pieces of our stack

Requirements

• Based in Austin, TX and able to work in person at our offices
• 0-2 years of experience in software development, technical support, or an engineering-adjacent role (flexible if you can demonstrate the skills)
• Strong programming fundamentals: comfortable in at least one language and able to learn others
• Experience with databases and writing queries (SQL or similar)
• Real interest in software design and architecture: you want to understand why systems are built the way they are
• Excellent written communication, since you’ll live in Slack and email
• Ability to thrive with direct, unfiltered feedback - we’ll tell you exactly what you need to improve
• Availability for rotating weekend support coverage

Compensation

• Base Salary: $62,000
• Performance Bonus: Up to 7% of base salary annually ($4,340) - half paid in cash ($2,170), half in stock options
• Team Revenue Bonus: $500/month when we hit monthly goals ($6,000 annually - we’ve hit our goals 7 out of 9 months so far in 2026)
• Total Cash Compensation: Up to $70,170
• Equity: Stock options through performance bonus and additional grants based on performance

All team members regardless of position are eligible for additional stock option grants and profit sharing based on performance. We expect both cash and equity compensation to grow as the company scales.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Sick leave
• Company-wide peer bonus program for recognizing excellent teamwork
• Employee assistance program
• Regular team events (both virtual and in-person)
• Direct mentorship from experienced operators who’ve scaled companies before

BodySpec is transforming how people understand and improve their health through accessible DEXA scanning. As a Junior Software Engineer, you’ll keep our systems running smoothly today while learning to design the systems we need next. If you want to solve real problems, build things that last, and grow into an engineer who makes sound design decisions, we want to hear from you.