Senior Staff Software Engineer Lead Scalable Social Care

Findhelp; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; 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

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vis

Dog-friendly office in Austin HQ

24/7 access to telemedicine and cousn

Book Purchasing Program

Job summary

Findhelp, headquartered in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to expand our nationwide social-services platform. You will lead cross-team engineering efforts and deliver high-impact features with a focus on user impact.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive robust architecture, and collaborate with product partners to ship scalable, secure software across Python and ReactJS stacks.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

ReactJS

Mentoring

Tech writing

Communication

SQL/ORM

Microservices

Tools

GCP

Cloud experience

Job description

Findhelp, headquartered in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to expand our nationwide social-services platform. You will lead cross-team engineering efforts and deliver high-impact features with a focus on user impact.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive robust architecture, and collaborate with product partners to ship scalable, secure software across Python and ReactJS stacks.