Staff Software Engineer

🕒 June 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $225.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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murmuration

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🌍 Social Impact

Consulting • Marketing • Social Impact

Murmuration is an organization that amplifies the power of civic engagement with data, tools, and research specifically designed for community-focused organizations. It believes that these organizations can drive significant change and create healthier, more equitable communities through collective action. Murmuration provides high-quality tech and data that enables these organizations to connect with and mobilize individuals effectively, ensuring that the voices of all community members are heard. Its offerings include a platform for organizing, enriched datasets, and actionable insights, all aimed at fostering meaningful connections within communities and driving transformative change.

📋 Description

• Drive to General Availability • Shape Explorer's technical future: advise on technical priorities, dependencies, and complexity; propose and defend well-reasoned solutions with clear documentation of tradeoffs and alternatives; • Take a pilot implementation from limited release to general availability, including making early architectural decisions, validating technical assumptions, and iterating toward a scalable design; • Harden experimental systems for production readiness, including reliability, performance, observability, testing, and operational excellence; • Architect for the long term: design and build the systems and architectures that will serve Explorer for years, with scale, reliability, security, and maintainability as first-class concerns; • Improve and expand the existing code base: reinforce secure coding practices, identify vulnerabilities early, and treat data privacy and access control as first-class concerns; • Drive test strategy, proactively identify and address technical risks, and drive quality improvements at the team level; and • Reduce technical debt, improve system quality, and contribute to objectives that span the broader organization. • Elevate the Team • Resolve ambiguity, navigate requirements that are actively being shaped, and bring structure and clarity without waiting for perfect specs; • Establish best practices for test strategy, code quality, and system design; raise the technical bar across the organization through documentation, advocacy, and role modeling; • Mentor senior engineers and help emerging technical leads build the judgment, ownership, and skills to grow; lead technical discussions, drive design consensus, and model the standards you expect from others; • Be like Ted Lasso: believe, build trust, and demonstrate kindness, empathy, optimism, curiosity, and vulnerability. • Lead Beyond Explorer • Set technical direction across teams beyond Explorer; own objectives that span multiple teams and align with division and organizational goals; drive the strategy, planning, decision-making, and execution needed to achieve them; • Lead significant initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems; align technical and non-technical stakeholders, communicate tradeoffs and risks clearly, and represent engineering in cross-organizational discussions and with product and leadership; • Champion secure coding practices at a systemic level, identify vulnerabilities across the product, and treat data privacy and access control as organization-wide concerns; and • Organize and lead incident response, involving the right people and delegating effectively; lead post-incident reviews including root cause analysis and clear prevention action items; follow through until learnings are shared and remediation is complete.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated full-stack fluency and a track record of delivering in production across a variety of languages and technology stacks • Experience taking a product from beta to general availability, navigating the operational, quality, and cross-functional demands of a production launch • Experience driving secure coding practices, data privacy principles, and access control patterns as applied in production systems • A test-driven mindset with experience writing, maintaining, and driving test strategy at the team or product level • A track record of effective collaboration with product, data science, and R&D teams, bridging technical and domain-specific perspectives across disciplines. • Deep, hands-on expertise across critical technical domains with the proven ability to lead system design, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices; your sound technical judgment shapes important decisions. • Experience with event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns; solid understanding of the tradeoffs among different event-driven architectures with the ability to defend one choice over the other. • Ability to reason across OLAP and OLTP data architectures and make sound design decisions for the systems that depend on them. • Comfort making sound decisions with imperfect information; able to design long-term architectures with scale, reliability, security, and maintainability as first-class concerns, and to clearly articulate tradeoffs and alternatives explored. • Ability to communicate and defend well-reasoned solutions through written documentation, sharing context, what alternatives were considered, and how conclusions were reached.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family members • Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match • A flexible unlimited PTO plan • Generous paid parental leave • Pre-tax commuter benefits • A company laptop • A flexible remote work environment • A home office setup stipend for all new employees • Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses • A yearly professional development fund • Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help • Yearly in-person staff retreats • A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.