Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of issues from discovery to production, which involves defining challenges, shaping solutions, implementing, deploying, and ensuring customer follow-through.

• Develop full-stack features encompassing user interfaces, backend services, integrations, data management, and infrastructure.

• Work collaboratively with product, design, and business unit colleagues to assess opportunities and set priorities.

• Create prototypes, release incrementally, collect customer feedback and usage analytics, and refine solutions accordingly.

• Participate in customer discussions and collaborate with onboarding and customer success teams.

• Make architectural choices, simplify systems, and address technical limitations.

• Investigate production challenges and enhance performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.

• Provide context, mentor fellow team members, conduct code reviews, and enhance engineering practices and recruitment efforts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software development within startup-like settings.

• Expertise in full-stack engineering.

• Proficient in JavaScript, Ruby, or Python.

• Familiarity with Rails or a similar web framework.

• Experience with React or another frontend framework.

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL.

• Proficient in working with RESTful APIs.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or GCP.

• Comfortable participating in user interviews, shadowing onboarding processes, or utilizing metrics.

• Strong asynchronous communication skills.

• Ability to prioritize tasks, ship continuously, and creatively solve problems.

• Capability to work independently and address first-time challenges.

• Comfort and curiosity in utilizing AI tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Code Interpreter, or Claude.

• Must reside in the United States.

• Expected to attend various company-wide and team-specific onsite events throughout the year.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Vacation time.

• Wellness benefits.

• Flexible, remote work opportunities.

• Access to the Washington, DC office whenever desired.

• Team gatherings, visits to partner institutions, and retreats.

• A mission-driven, inclusive, supportive, and learning-oriented environment.