Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bloomerang is a mission-driven company providing technology and support to help nonprofits increase their impact. The Senior Software Engineer (Technical Lead) will own a delivery team’s technical outcomes, shape technical direction, write production code, mentor engineers, and solve complex problems. The role also focuses on AI-driven engineering, automation, software quality, system reliability, and modern web application development.
Responsibilities
- **Own the team's technical outcomes.** Set a high bar for code quality, reliability, maintainability, security, and technical execution, and make sure the team follows through on what it ships
- **Lead technical direction and design within your team's domain.** Translate product and business problems into pragmatic technical solutions, independently shaping the approach for small-to-moderately scoped features and driving them through implementation. Partner with Staff Engineers and architects when decisions have broader cross-team or cross-product implications
- **Make the team better.** Mentor engineers across experience levels, provide actionable technical feedback, identify opportunities for growth, and help engineers develop the judgment and skills to solve increasingly complex problems independently
- **Champion AI-driven engineering and automation.** Use AI tools such as Claude Code and other emerging tools as part of your daily development workflow, while identifying opportunities to automate repetitive or high-friction engineering work. Experiment with new approaches, measure their effectiveness, and turn successful practices into repeatable workflows that increase team leverage, improve quality, and accelerate delivery
- **Balance delivery with long-term technical health.** Proactively identify technical debt, architectural risks, performance concerns, and reliability issues, and work with the team to address them while staying focused on product outcomes
- **Diagnose and resolve complex technical problems.** Use deep debugging, observability, and system-level knowledge to find root causes and improve the systems and practices that prevent issues from recurring
- **Own quality end to end.** Build quality into the development process through appropriate automated testing, code review, observability, and continuous feedback
Skills
- Strong, recent experience building and shipping production software as a hands-on engineer
- Deep proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript across the stack — Node.js and Express on the server, React on the front end — with strong experience in modern web development
- Strong experience with relational data modeling and SQL (PostgreSQL), REST API design, asynchronous programming, automated testing, and production debugging and observability
- Experience modernizing legacy systems incrementally — porting or strangling legacy code into a modern stack while a live product keeps running for customers
- Comfort building and operating integrations and data sync between systems, where correctness, idempotency, and conflict handling matter
- The ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed
- Experience serving as the senior technical engineer or technical lead on a team, influencing technical direction without relying on formal management authority
- The ability to take an ambiguous or moderately scoped problem, develop the technical approach, make sound tradeoffs, and drive it through implementation and delivery
- A strong ownership mindset; you care about the quality, reliability, maintainability, and long-term health of what your team ships
- The judgment to know when to make decisions independently and when to bring in broader architectural or organizational expertise
- Genuine, hands-on fluency with AI development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools
- Experience using AI meaningfully in day-to-day engineering work, including coding, debugging, research, code analysis, and problem-solving
- The ability to identify opportunities to use AI and automation to improve engineering workflows, increase team leverage, and raise quality—not simply to write code faster
- Curiosity about emerging AI capabilities and a willingness to experiment, learn, and turn useful practices into repeatable team workflows
- A track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical capability and confidence of the people around you
- The ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly with Engineering, Product, QA, and other partners
- A continuous-improvement mindset and willingness to challenge existing practices when there is a better way to build, test, operate, or deliver software
- A collaborative approach to technical leadership: you can drive a decision while still seeking input and bringing others along
- Experience with Java, or another JVM stack, in a legacy modernization context
- Experience with AngularJS, or migrating a legacy front end to React
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- Feature flagging and progressive delivery (LaunchDarkly, OpenFeature, or similar)
- API and end-to-end test automation (Playwright, Jest, or similar)
- Multi-tenant SaaS at scale
- CRM, nonprofit, or volunteer management experience
- Helpful, but not required: Experience with Java, AngularJS, Sequelize or a comparable ORM, AWS/cloud infrastructure, or CRM platforms
Benefits
- Generous health, vision, and dental insurance options
- HealthiestYou, a healthcare service that offers convenient, confidential access to quality doctors 24/7, anytime, anywhere
- 20 PTO days
- 3 flex days
- 4 optional volunteer days
- 12 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- 401k match
- Everything you need to be successful, shipped right to your door
- You may also be eligible for a discretionary bonus
- Permanent, full-time, fully remote position within the U.S. and select Canadian Provinces only
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