Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Feathr is a nonprofit marketing platform trusted by more than 1,300 nonprofits, providing software that helps organizations build community connections and grow their impact. The Staff Backend Software Engineer will own product areas, shape technical direction, scope and build challenging distributed systems, establish quality standards, advise on architecture and hiring, and mentor other engineers.
Responsibilities
- The technical solutions for the bets in your product areas, including the technical scope and the tradeoffs behind it
- The hardest technical work on the board, which you build yourself
- The quality standards for your areas, including code review and testing strategy
- Work you ship, until the bet closes at outcome confirmed. The team monitors the outcome metric for about 30 days after launch, and you handle monitoring, debugging, and fixes during that period
- Bets: feasibility, cost, and risk during discovery, and how the team breaks them into work items that match the technical scope
- Architecture: long-term technology choices, major changes to shared systems, and standards shared across pods
- Engineering hiring
- Technical scopes for the bets in your areas, with the options, the chosen approach, and the tradeoffs. These documents extend the Scope artifact from discovery
- Prototypes that retire feasibility risk before the team writes production code
- Working software, including the most challenging pieces in your product areas
- Standards, templates, and examples that other engineers reuse
- Upgrade and migration plans for the systems you own
Skills
- 8+ years building software that runs in production
- Expert skill in backend development
- Experience with our stack or a similar stack: Python and Flask-style APIs, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis on the backend
- You have scoped and shipped distributed systems that use queues, caches, and search
- You have run software on AWS and Kubernetes at production scale
- You have scoped solutions that other engineers built successfully
- You have mentored engineers and helped them advance to larger roles
- You write clearly: your technical scopes and decisions are easy to follow
- You have built and improved CI/CD pipelines, and you consider security in the solutions you scope
- This position is Remote to candidates located in the U.S. or with the option to work from our headquarters in Gainesville, FL
Benefits
- Bonus potential of up to 12%
- Fully remote
- Health/dental/vision insurance
- Company Holidays + Winter Break
- Paid vacation + sick time off
- Full vision, dental, and ~99% health insurance for employees
- Sick time off
- Vacation time off
- Extended Wintr Break
- Parental Leave
- Wellness Reimbursement Credit
- Home Office Stipend
- Professional Development Budget
- Team hangouts and events
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