Senior or Lead Software Engineer

Boost My School; United States; Remote; USD 174,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Company laptop

Annual company retreats

Remote internet stipend

Job summary

Boost My School is seeking a Senior or Lead Software Engineer to join a remote-first team supporting schools and students across the United States. You will own critical features across the stack, contribute to production deployments, and help steer technology choices in a fast-moving environment.

You should bring 6+ years of software engineering experience, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for delivering impact.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Ability to own technical outcomes and drive results
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Wamiliar with rapid deployment and production readiness
• Excellent communication and feedback skills
• Bonus: experience with school fundraising or education tech

Responsibilities

• Deploy to production multiple times in first week
• Contribute across stack: infrastructure, frontend, backend, analytics, internal tools
• Help select future technologies (React/Relay frontend, Rails GraphQL API)
• Write maintainable code with CI/CD, linting and tests
• Support teammates and fill gaps in a small team
• Travel for company retreats about twice a year

Skills

Software engineering

Team collaboration

Ownership

Rapid deployment

Communication

Tools

React

Relay

Rails

GraphQL

Job description

Senior or Lead Software Engineer

Full-time, remote only, USA. $157-181K base salary. $174-201K all-in cash. Equity with 4-year vesting.

Love building a product that improves a user’s life so much that they can’t help but share it with their peers?

Boost My School is looking for a Senior or Lead Software Engineer to join our team helping schools ensure all students succeed.

Why work at Boost?

1. We make meaningful impact helping schools and students

• Boost is trusted by 350+ schools to bring in $200M a year from 100,000 families and donors
• Our platform and partnership with our schools delivers world-class satisfaction: 97% school retention and 85 NPS
• Every Boost team member has clear accountability over results that directly impact the success of our company and schools
• Our business model is designed so that we succeed only when our schools succeed
• You’re given a monthly budget to donate to schools of your choice on Boost

2. We win as part of a thoughtful and collaborative team

• Our work culture is inspired by championship sports teams
• Openly view all company communication outside of personal matters - we mostly communicate over Slack public channels and Notion public wikis
• Openly view company, team, and individual performance metrics
• Take on tasks in which you have the final say over your manager or the CEO
• Every full-time team member is financially aligned to top company goals through an annual company bonus
• Get to know your remote teammates at our all-company in-person retreat in July and departmental coworking onsites in fall/winter

3. We embrace ownership over our work, growth, and time

• Our hiring goal is for each team member to stay at Boost for 5+ years
• Internal meetings are scheduled during our core working hours (12pm to 4pm ET) so you have more flexibility over your time
• Use our weekly No Meetings Day to get uninterrupted work done (or to do your laundry while you work)
• Take care of errands or pick up your kids as long as you communicate accountability over the things you’re responsible for
• Receive regular professional development through weekly 1-on-1s and quarterly career check-ins
• Our company calendar is aligned with the school year - we have 15 company days off across major holidays and July Fridays Off
• Outside of the 15 company days off, we suggest taking an additional 10 to 15 days off, and require taking 1 week of continuous time off per calendar year
• Use your remote working stipend ($200/mo) for your internet bill, to buy lunch, or for professional development
• Company covers medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses through QSEHRA ($537/mo for individuals, up to $1,091/mo for those with families)
• A company laptop will be shipped to you before your first day

Responsibilities

• Join a fast-moving environment - you’ll deploy to production multiple times on your first week
• Be responsible for and implement initiatives that directly impact the success of our schools
• Make major contributions across the entire stack: infrastructure, frontend, backend, analytics, internal tools
• Play a role in selecting future technologies - our stack is an isomorphic React/Relay web app that talks to a Rails GraphQL API
• Work with teammates that care about writing maintainable code - we practice continuous deployment, incremental pull requests, strict linting, type checking, and strong test coverage
• Support your teammates and fill in gaps as needed since we are a small team
• Our team has less experience in Support, QA, and DevOps Engineering, bonus if you get excited by any of those
• Travel expectations: On average twice a year for company retreats, occasionally a school visit

About you

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, ideally at a B2B SaaS company
• You make meaningful impact: You always look for ways to better help your customers succeed
• You win as a team: You’re thoughtful and collaborate to accomplish shared goals together
• You embrace ownership: You hold yourself accountable for your actions and their results
• You overcommunicate: You go above and beyond to ensure you’re on the same page with your teammates
• You use radical candor: You give and seek out empathetic feedback to help the team grow together
• You move fast with intention: You make decisions and execute quickly to both succeed and learn faster
• Bonus: You’re familiar with the school fundraising industry - e.g. you helped raise money for your school or you know what “advancement” means