The Staff Software Engineer is a key member of our engineering team, delivering new features and improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment using modern computing frameworks to drive our mission to make the world a little better everyday by powering our key community functions.

• Architect, design and develop robust APIs and microservices using NodeJS, Typescript & a modern React UI to serve over 50k monthly users across hundreds of customer communities.

• Build services with strong focus on latency, availability and scalability.

• Build, test, and deploy with technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.

• Support, troubleshoot, and monitor production systems.

• Act as a key contributor to analysis and evolution of scenarios that are pivotal to future sustained growth and success, and act as an evangelist for robust technical foundations.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across Design, Product Management, and Engineering.

• Be part of a culture-focused, globally distributed team.

• 8+ years of professional experience shipping scalable SaaS products

• 5+ years experience with a modern, high level language (ideally Typescript or NodeJS).

• 5+ years professional experience with relational and non-relational databases.

• 3+ years in a team leadership role (team lead, principal, senior, staff, etc)

• 3+ years professional experience with a cloud provider (ideally AWS).

• Experience building large-scale, consumer-facing enterprise SaaS software.

• Design and development of REST APIs.

• Experience designing microservices connected by stream processing, Kafka preferred.

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience

• Experience in optimizing applications for speed and scalability.

• Experience driving team improvement through process improvement and mentoring.

• Strong communication skills and a desire for transparency.

• Experience working as part of an agile team (Scrum or Kanban).

» Leadership: CEO Zac Bookman (MPA from Harvard and JD from Yale) is truly a mission-driven CEO. He was named one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and SF and Silicon Valley Business Times' 40 under 40 class of 2018!

» Funding: Over $250 million, late stage venture backed company, from top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Cox Enterprises, and Emerson Collective.

» Board of Directors: Includes iconic executives John Chambers (former Cisco Chairman and CEO), Marc Andreessen (Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world), Katherine August-deWilde (Vice Chair of First Republic Bank), and Amy Pressman (co-founder, former president, and a current board member of Medallia).

» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,800+ governments (and counting) using our products. Click here to read more.

» Culture: Winner of 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, Winner of Forbes 2022 Best Startup Employers, 50 Best Workplaces award. Check out our Careers Video!

» Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (seven consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies.

» Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.

Come join us and make a positive social impact!