Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. In Tandem builds technology that helps families manage everyday routines and life transitions. The Staff+ Software Engineer identifies high-value problems, builds and validates software from initial concept through production, and improves engineering practices through AI-enabled workflows and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Seek out problems worth building for. Talk with users, learn from support and product data, and pay attention to changes in our markets. Turn those signals into a clear view of what matters, then take initiative inside shared priorities, and bring partners along as you learn
- Take it from zero to one. Start where there is no structure. Get a first version in front of real users quickly, find out whether anyone cares, and do the unglamorous work that earns early traction. Own the outcome, not just the code
- Carry useful work into production. Shape a focused first version, build it, and learn from real use. Define how you will judge success before you build, then use the evidence to improve, expand, or stop the work
- Raise the pace and quality of engineering. Identify places where an AI-enabled workflow can shorten the path from idea to shipped software. Build the tools, context, checks, and feedback loops that let other engineers use it with confidence
- Own the hard decisions. Move work forward when requirements are incomplete, make your reasoning visible, and bring consequential tradeoffs to the right partners. Choose when to prototype, when to invest in durable architecture, and how to verify that a system is correct, safe, and useful
- Connect the pieces. Work across product and engineering boundaries. Bring depth in a core platform and enough range across APIs, web, mobile, and infrastructure to help a feature succeed end to end
- Make others stronger. Share working examples, explain tradeoffs clearly, invite criticism, and help teams adopt what proves effective
Skills
- Staff-level impact as a hands-on engineer: you have shaped technical direction, built important systems, and helped other people deliver stronger work
- An owner's mindset. You've started something with little structure, such as a product, feature, internal tool, open-source project or company. You stayed with it through the early phase until it found users or you learned it wouldn't
- Evidence that you can move from an uncertain problem to a useful result. You know how to test a premise with a prototype and how to recognize when a prototype needs stronger engineering before it can be trusted in production
- Product judgment and curiosity about users and markets. You can explain why a problem mattered, how you chose it with others, and what changed for users or the business because of what you built
- Practical fluency with AI-assisted development. You have used models or agents to build real software or workflows, and you can explain where they helped, where they failed, and how you checked the result
- Strong judgment about architecture, quality, security, and user experience. You know which decisions need close attention and which can be accelerated
- Depth in at least one engineering area, with the curiosity and fundamentals to work effectively across the stack
- Low ego, high integrity, and a habit of making your reasoning visible so others can learn from and improve it
Benefits
- In Tandem pays 100% of the premium for employees AND 99% for all additional family members
- 401k: Up to a 4% match with immediate vesting
- Paid leave for all new parents
- Learning & Development stipend for employees
- Paid Time Off: 11 Holidays + Winter Break (3 Days) + Volunteer Time Off (1 Day) + Floating Holiday (1 Day)
- Personal Time Off: 15 days for 0-1 years of employment + 20 days for 1-3 years of employment
- Supportive and flexible working environment – work from anywhere!
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