Remote Staff Software Engineer - Architect & Tech Leader

codeforamerica; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage with no-cost employee

Paid holidays

Sabbatical after 5 years

Parental leave

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Code for America in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help set the technical direction of an engineering team building high-impact public services. The role blends hands-on work with technical leadership and focuses on reliable delivery, sound architecture, and mentoring teammates. This remote role is open to U.S.

residents, with travel up to 10%. You will design features, write tests, mentor engineers, and establish technical direction while collaborating with product

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering production software with architectural ownership and data modeling for substantial systems.
• Strong coding, design, and code review skills with sound judgment on tradeoffs.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving how a team builds, tests, and ships software.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, bias toward action, and adapt to changing priorities.
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools responsibly within delivery workflows.
• Eligibility to work full-time within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship features that make government services easier for the public to navigate, iterating quickly and hardening them once proven.
• Write automated tests and develop monitoring strategies to maintain a high bar of service quality in production.
• Make architectural and data-modeling decisions for significant parts of a system, weighing tradeoffs such as speed versus maintainability and familiar tools versus the right tools.
• Establish direction for technical work within the team, anticipating challenges and documenting the reasoning behind key choices.
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional peers, adapting approach as priorities and tooling shift.
• Produce documentation and learning materials that strengthen the engineering culture and support others.

Skills

Software architecture

Data modeling

Mentoring

Code reviews

Delivery ownership

AI-assisted development tools

Job description

Code for America in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help set the technical direction of an engineering team building high-impact public services. The role blends hands-on work with technical leadership and focuses on reliable delivery, sound architecture, and mentoring teammates. This remote role is open to U.S.

residents, with travel up to 10%. You will design features, write tests, mentor engineers, and establish technical direction while collaborating with product