Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tangerine Search Inc. is a fully remote, mission-driven political technology company founded in 2020. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing, maintaining, and scaling the company’s software products, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to design solutions that meet customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Design scalable systems and architectures spanning multiple services and teams
- Develop features as part of a remote engineering team while building resiliency into solutions from the beginning
- Define technical specifications and requirements for new systems, products, and features in partnership with product and stakeholders
- Lead multi-sprint projects from ambiguous requirements through successful delivery
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code with strong ownership and accountability
- Ensure feature quality, reliability, and completeness while balancing speed and long-term sustainability
- Review code, technical designs, specifications, and architectural decisions
- Manage technical debt and improve system maintainability
- Follow established engineering patterns and best practices
- Understand customer workflows and how technology supports their goals
- Troubleshoot software issues and perform ongoing upgrades to vendor integrations and infrastructure
- Build software with strong observability and monitoring capabilities
- Respond to alerts, support production systems, and create documentation/runbooks
- Identify potential failure points and improve overall system reliability
- Scale infrastructure to support high-volume events and periods of increased demand
- Participate in an on-call rotation for incident response and troubleshooting
- Lead incident follow-ups and implement improvements based on learnings
- Support technical requests from customers and internal teams, translating complex issues into clear solutions
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
- Proven ability to handle large or unexpected traffic spikes
- Experience leading multi-sprint projects from unclear requirements to successful delivery
- Strong understanding of resiliency patterns including rate limiting, retries, queuing, backpressure, and graceful degradation
- Experience integrating with third-party services and managing external system failures (telephony/carrier experience is a plus)
- Experience leading incident response and implementing preventative improvements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Benefits
- 401(k) 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 annually accrued monthly)
- Paid sick leave, paid short-term medical leave, caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and additional personal leave options
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave plus an additional 4 weeks of fully paid part-time flex time for all new parents, including adoptive parents
- Fully paid premium medical insurance with a $0 deductible, plus dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Fully remote work environment with flexible working conditions
- Home office stipend and company-provided computer equipment
- Annual opportunity to donate free communication credits to a nonprofit of your choice
- Annual professional development stipend of $2,000 to support continued growth and learning
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