Senior Software Engineer

BibleProject; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

BibleProject is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Platform to independently deliver complex features, write maintainable code, review peers, and improve team velocity. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with Product and Design to translate clear requirements into scalable production software.

You will help architect and maintain shared platform services such as eventing, authentication, payment processing, and user activity using a federated GraphQL service layer across the app and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex software features on schedule.
• Strong opinions on performance, scaling, and code quality.
• Ability to mentor engineers and collaborate across product and design.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discussions and guide architectural decisions.
• Review code, mentor engineers, and improve team velocity.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate requirements into production software.
• Architect and maintain shared platform services (eventing, authentication, payments, user activity) via a federated GraphQL layer.
• Promote technical excellence and a quality developer experience.
• Contribute to BibleProject's product engineering culture and uphold its values.

Skills

Code reviews

System design

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Performance

Tools

GraphQL

Federated services

Job description

Core Functions

As a Senior Software Engineer, you independently deliver complex features on schedule. You write easily maintainable code, contribute to reviews, and steadily improve team quality and velocity. You mentor other engineers and collaborate closely with Product, and Design to turn clear requirements into scalable, reliable, and maintainable production software.

An average day may include leading technical discussions (both written asynchronously and verbal synchronously), reviewing code from colleagues, and troubleshooting critical and urgent issues. You’ll work closely with product managers and cross-functional teams to promote technical excellence. You’ll contribute thoughtful opinions on both code performance and user experience. You have an openness to understanding BibleProject’s content and paradigm for approaching the Bible so that you can help us achieve our mission.

You’ll help architect and maintain our shared platform services such as eventing, authentication, payment processing, and user activity using a federated GraphQL service layer, enabling seamless delivery to our app and website across multiple languages. You’ll also speak into infrastructure strategy and design, enabling a quality developer experience for other engineers who contribute to our technology products.

To be successful, you need to be a self-organized and motivated software engineer with strong opinions on performance, scaling, code organization & quality, and developer experience along with the exceptional technical skills to back them up. We’re looking for a top-tier engineer who can adapt to their current context quickly, learning and applying past experiences to the current work. This is an opportunity to apply your skills toward building elegant systems, and some of the best work of your career.

Most importantly, you’ll be an integral part of maturing the product engineering culture of BibleProject, setting and maintaining a high bar with regards to our standards and people and working to create an environment where great technical professionals like yourself can ship work worthy of our mission at a sustainable pace that reflects the BibleProject values: creative, humble, thoughtful, unifying, generous, and unhurried.

Senior Software Engineer- Platform

About This Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you independently deliver complex features on schedule. You write easily maintainable code, contribute to reviews, and steadily improve team quality and velocity. You mentor other engineers and collaborate closely with Product, and Design to turn clear requirements into scalable, reliable, and maintainable production software.

An average day may include leading technical discussions (both written asynchronously and verbal synchronously), reviewing code from colleagues, and troubleshooting critical and urgent issues. You’ll work closely with product managers and cross-functional teams to promote technical excellence. You’ll contribute thoughtful opinions on both code performance and user experience. You have an openness to understanding BibleProject’s content and paradigm for approaching the Bible so that you can help us achieve our mission.

You’ll help architect and maintain our shared platform services such as eventing, authentication, payment processing, and user activity using a federated GraphQL service layer, enabling seamless delivery to our app and website across multiple languages. You’ll also speak into infrastructure strategy and design, enabling a quality developer experience for other engineers who contribute to our technology products.

To be successful, you need to be a self-organized and motivated software engineer with strong opinions on performance, scaling, code organization & quality, and developer experience along with the exceptional technical skills to back them up. We’re looking for a top-tier engineer who can adapt to his current context quickly, learning and applying past experiences to the current work. This is an opportunity to apply your skills toward building elegant systems, and some of the best work of your career.

Most importantly, you’ll be an integral part of maturing the product engineering culture of BibleProject, setting and maintaining a high bar with regards to our standards and people and working to create an environment where great technical professionals like yourself can ship work worthy of our mission at a sustainable pace that reflects the BibleProject values: creative, humble, thoughtful, unifying, generous, and unhurried.

Core Functions

Leadership

• Lead technical discussions and provide clear guidance on architectural decisions, asking and answering clarifying questions and proposing improvements.
• Demonstrates best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment, and reflects them in day-to-day work and reviews.