Staff Software Engineer

🕒 September 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $128.9k - $157.8k / 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

• Craft new features that help users navigate government services and receive a dignified experience • Write automated tests and develop monitoring strategies to ensure high service quality • Work iteratively to ship minimal features, learn, and harden them to scale • Contribute to design, implementation, code review, and technical trade-offs, responsibly using AI-assisted development • Own architecture and data-modeling decisions for significant parts of a production system • Produce quality documentation and learning materials for internal and external audiences • Establish technical direction, anticipate challenges, document decisions, and explain the rationale behind approaches • Collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional peers as priorities, technology, and team needs shift • Commit to a path forward when the team is stuck and revise as new information emerges • Mentor engineers on technical judgment and engineering practice • Guide team norms, surface dependencies, align on shared patterns, and strengthen delivery practices • Report to the Engineering Manager • Travel no more than 10% of the time • Other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong expertise in system architecture, data modeling, web technologies, and API design • Experience working across multiple languages, frameworks, and tech stacks — or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly into unfamiliar ones • Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools judiciously, validating and refining generated code for quality, and modeling that discipline for teammates • Curiosity about emerging AI tools and a commitment to using them responsibly and effectively • Experience with Agile Software Development models like Scrum, XP, TDD, or BDD • Demonstrated technical leadership in a team environment • Experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tooling • Eager collaboration with peers and in providing technical and professional mentorship • Truly excellent written and verbal communication skills in English • Expert understanding and experience communicating with cross-functional peers and translating those conversations into actionable tasks • Deep commitment to Code for America's mission • Must reside full-time within the United States • Availability during internal meeting hours of 10 AM–3 PM PT

🏖️ Benefits

• Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another • A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment • Laptop provided • A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy • Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month • $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; 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 staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth • Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions • Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5% • At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage • A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage • Code for America employees may work remotely across the US • Full-time employees work 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday • Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-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