About the role:As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Findhelp, you will play a pivotal role in expanding our platform that seamlessly integrates our nationwide system of social-services. Serving on a cross-functional development team, you'll collaborate closely with various teams and departments to ensure the delivery of top-tier products for our users. You will lead engineering efforts through a combination of a positive attitude, exemplary work ethic, and significant contributions to both the technical and cultural facets of engineering, all underpinned by a deep understanding of user impact. You will be able to consistently level up more junior engineers and the company in your own unique way.
What you'll do- Someone who works to understand the user's story to design intuitive experiences
- Own work from inception to delivery, and beyond
- Refactor legacy code as you create new features
- Mentor other engineers and foster their growth
- Work within a team and across teams to accomplish our mission of helping others
- Consistently write quality code with the end user in mind
- Architect for robustness, extensibility, scale, sustainability, and security
- Provide quality feedback in code reviews and willing to pair on coding tasks
Qualifications- 8+ years working as a professional software developer
- Experience architecting a feature to widen the impact for long term success
- Excellent technical writing and communication skills
- Experience writing technical designs and breaking down complex features to consistently deliver value
- Experience in Python and ReactJS preferred
- Comfortable working independently in a complex Python codebase
- Comfortable scaling up on Python if you haven't worked on it before
- Interested in mentoring others and fostering individual growth
- Good understanding of SQL, ORMs, and non-relational databases
- Preferred GCP experience, but other cloud experience welcome
- Understanding of web performance strategies and metrics
- Experience with or a strong understanding of microservices
- Ability to follow through on commitments
- Ability to communicate technical needs and solutions to product partners
We value being together : We believe being together enables stronger relationships, collaboration, and culture.
This position is in office and candidates must be located in Austin, Texas or Madison, Wisconsin.Perks at Findhelp- 401k & equity grants
- Free food and onsite gym at our Austin HQ
- Paid parental leave
- Competitive PTO & 10 paid holidays
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance with 100% company-paid coverage for employee only coverage
- Dog-friendly office in Austin HQ
- 24/7 access to telemedicine and counseling
- Book Purchasing Program
Here are some of the ways we support our staff:
- Culture Committee
- Leadership Development Training
- Paid Volunteering Time
