Senior Staff Software Engineer

Open Roles; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k & equity grants

Free food and onsite gym at our Austin

Paid parental leave

Competitive PTO & 10 paid holidays

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Dog-friendly office in Austin HQ

Telemedicine and counseling

Book Purchasing Program

Job summary

Findhelp in Austin (HQ) is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead engineering efforts across our platform connecting social-services nationwide. You will own features from inception to delivery, mentor juniors, and drive robust, scalable architectures using Python and ReactJS within a microservices-based system.

You will collaborate across teams, improve performance, and ensure security and maintainability while contributing to culture and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience architecting features for long-term impact.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills.
• Experience writing technical designs and breaking down complex features.
• Experience in Python and ReactJS preferred.
• Comfortable working independently in a complex Python codebase.
• Comfortable scaling Python and expanding skills as needed.
• Mentoring others and fostering growth within teams.
• Strong understanding of SQL, ORMs, and non-relational databases.
• Preferred GCP experience; other cloud experience welcome.

Responsibilities

• Understand user stories to design intuitive experiences.
• Own work from inception to delivery and beyond.
• Refactor legacy code while creating new features.
• Mentor other engineers and foster their growth.
• Collaborate across teams to achieve Findhelp's mission.
• Write quality, user-focused code consistently.
• Architect for robustness, scalability, sustainability, and security.
• Provide quality feedback in code reviews and pair on tasks.

Skills

8+ years software development

Python

ReactJS

Mentoring

Technical writing

Technical designs

SQL/ORMs

Microservices

Cloud (GCP)

Web performance

Job description

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

We’re building a diverse, inclusive team

You’re welcome here. We want everyone to be able to easily connect to the help they need, and we want our teams to reflect and represent our communities. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer any and all Company policies, without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin or ancestry, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, or any other protected class, in accordance with applicable laws. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

Here are some of the ways we support our staff:

• Culture Committee


• Leadership Development Training


• Paid Volunteering Time