Senior Software Engineer

Job Description:

• Manage the development and maintenance of all Scale to Win products and software.
• Build and develop new features and products while ensuring the continued functionality and integrity of all existing systems.
• Maintain existing product suite and strategically build for the future to ensure client needs are met.
• Contribute to system design, technical architecture, and long-term infrastructure planning.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end customer features.
• Participate in sprint planning, task estimation, and release deployment processes.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly, provide constructive feedback, and mentor team members.
• Respond to production outages and support cross-functional client technical requests.

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience and a proven track record of leading multi-sprint projects from requirements to shipped products.
• Design and operate distributed systems at scale capable of handling unexpected traffic spikes using resiliency patterns such as rate limiting, retries, queuing, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node, PostgreSQL, and AWS managed with Terraform.
• Experience integrating third-party services and gracefully handling service failures (carrier or telephony experience is a plus).
• Write clean, readable, and maintainable code, prioritize quality to prevent production errors, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable leading incident response to prevent recurrence, participating in a night/weekend on-call rotation, and working extra evenings or weekends during peak election seasons and high client volumes.

Benefits:

• 401k matching up to 6% after a provisional period.
• Ten paid company holidays, two floating holidays, and a week and a half-long holiday break at the end of the year.
• Generous paid vacation (up to 24 days a year with time accrued monthly); paid sick leave; paid short-term medical, caregiver, bereavement, and other personal leave.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave and an additional 4 weeks of part-time, fully-paid flex time for all new parents of any gender, including adoptive parents.
• Fully-paid premium, $0 deductible, top-notch medical insurance, as well as dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Remote working with flexible working conditions, a stipend to support your home office setup, and access to a company computer.
• Every employee is invited to donate 25,000 free texts to a non-profit of their choice each year.
• An annual $2,000.00 stipend towards achieving professional development goals.