Principal Software Engineer

🕒 September 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $143.9k - $176.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Code for America

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Government • Social Impact

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to improving government services and fostering resilient communities. The organization leverages technology to simplify access to food benefits, tax filing, criminal record clearance, and more, aiming to break down barriers and find real solutions for individuals across the country. Through partnerships with governments and communities, Code for America designs human-centered applications and provides consulting and advisory services to enhance social safety nets and government processes. By building tools and resources that facilitate easier benefit enrollment and tax services, Code for America strives to create a more inclusive government that works for everyone.

📋 Description

• Define technical standards and practices for engineering-wide reliable, high-quality software delivery • Craft features that improve navigation of government services and user experience • Solve ambiguous, high-leverage technical problems across domains • Own architecture and data-modeling decisions for systems spanning multiple services or teams • Develop durable, reusable shared services, libraries, and AI-enabled components • Produce documentation, technical decision records, and learning materials • Set and document technical direction and shared engineering standards • Mentor Staff and Senior Software Engineers • Partner with Engineering Managers, Directors, and cross-functional peers on technical strategy • Explore emerging technologies, infrastructure, frameworks, and AI-enabled capabilities • Represent Engineering in cross-discipline planning and decision-making • Report to the Engineering Director • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience • Deep expertise in system architecture, data modeling, web technologies, and API design • Track record of defining technical standards or patterns adopted across multiple teams • Experience solving ambiguous, previously undefined technical problems and building adoptable solutions • Expertise across multiple languages, frameworks, and technology stacks, with ability to ramp into unfamiliar ones • Ability to use AI coding tools judiciously, validate and refine generated code, and establish responsible usage norms • Experience with Agile software development models such as Scrum, XP, TDD, or BDD • Technical leadership across team boundaries at a multi-team scale • Experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tooling • Experience collaborating across disciplines and mentoring engineers • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English • Commitment to Code for America's mission • Willingness to travel no more than 10% of the time • Full-time residence within the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Laptop provided • One-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend and up to $500 reimbursement • Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month • $500 annual professional development stipend, prorated at time of hire • Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000 • Training/guidance for AI use and opportunities to gain AI-related skills • 100% employer match on the first 3% of 401(k) contributions • Additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5% after 3+ years of service, up to 5% employer contribution • At least one no-cost health insurance option for full-time employees (employee-only coverage) • Minimum 80% of dependent coverage costs • Remote work across the US • Open personal time off, subject to manager approval • Minimum 14 paid holidays • Organization-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day • Paid sick time, up to 96 hours annually • 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave • 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service • Collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment • Leadership and teammates who share strong work ethic and values and respect one another