Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Engage with users, analyze support and product data, and track market trends to pinpoint problems that need addressing.

• Transform user and market insights into clear priorities while collaborating with partners.

• Initiate projects from the ground up, quickly deliver initial versions to actual users, and gain early momentum.

• Establish success metrics, release targeted versions, and leverage evidence to refine, expand, or discontinue efforts.

• Discover AI-enabled workflows that enhance software delivery.

• Create tools, context, checks, and feedback mechanisms for confident AI-assisted engineering.

• Make architectural, quality, security, and product trade-off decisions amidst incomplete information.

• Prototype or invest in sustainable architecture as needed and ensure systems are accurate, secure, and beneficial.

• Collaborate across product and engineering domains including APIs, web, mobile, and infrastructure.

• Share functional examples, articulate trade-offs, welcome feedback, and assist teams in adopting effective methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven staff-level impact as a hands-on engineer, involving shaping technical direction, constructing significant systems, and aiding others in delivering high-quality work.

• An ownership mindset with experience in launching products, features, internal tools, open-source initiatives, or companies with minimal structure.

• Demonstrated ability to transition from ambiguous problems to valuable outcomes, including prototyping and identifying when more robust engineering is required for production.

• Strong product judgment and curiosity regarding users and market dynamics.

• Practical expertise in AI-assisted development, including employing models or agents to create actual software or workflows and assessing their performance.

• Solid judgment regarding architecture, quality, security, and user experience.

• Proficiency in at least one engineering domain, with fundamental knowledge and a desire to work across the technology stack.

• Experience with APIs, web, mobile, and infrastructure.

• Low ego, high integrity, and clear reasoning skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical: In Tandem covers 100% of the premium for employees and 99% for all additional family members.

• 401k: Up to a 4% match with immediate vesting.

• Paid leave for all new parents.

• Learning & Development stipend for employees.

• Paid Time Off: 11 Holidays + Winter Break (3 Days) + Volunteer Time Off (1 Day) + Floating Holiday (1 Day).

• Personal Time Off: 15 days for 0-1 years of employment + 20 days for 1-3 years of employment.

• Supportive and flexible working environment – the option to work from anywhere!