Software Engineer

🕒 February 25

🏢🏡 Chicago – Hybrid

💵 $92k - $114.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Braven

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $1M Grant on 2022-10

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Braven is a nonprofit organization focused on empowering underrepresented young people, including first-generation college students and those from low-income backgrounds, with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks they need to transition from college to strong first jobs and meaningful careers. Braven partners with higher education and employers to provide a career-accelerating experience through a semester-long course and ongoing support until graduation. Their mission is to bridge the opportunity gap and ensure economic mobility for promising youths throughout the United States.

📋 Description

• Work primarily in Ruby on Rails or Python, showcasing proficiency and contributing to high-quality, maintainable applications. • Take ownership of well-defined tasks and deliver reliable, impactful solutions. • Apply software engineering best practices to improve processes, systems, and code robustness. • Keep end-users at the forefront of your work, prioritizing solutions that have a meaningful impact and enhance students’ experiences. • Solve technical challenges with creativity and a focus on enhancing team capabilities. • Provide constructive feedback on code and architecture proposals to promote team excellence. • Support junior engineers through guidance and collaboration, fostering a culture of continuous learning. • Create and maintain clear documentation for architectures, design decisions, and team protocols. • Contribute to scrums and sprints by sharing updates, addressing blockers, and refining tasks with the team. • Stay current with industry trends, security practices, and compliance requirements to ensure alignment with best practices. • Other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience • Proficient in full-stack development, with experience in Ruby on Rails and React, and expertise in backend, frontend, and database design, using BigQuery, PostgreSQL, and Git. • Strong organizational and task management skills, with the ability to prioritize work, ensure attention to detail, and make sound technical decisions independently. • Flexible and solutions-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing priorities. • Excellent communication skills, bridging technical and non-technical teams and managing stakeholder expectations effectively. • Collaborative team member with peer coaching experience, contributing to knowledge sharing, team growth, and fostering an inclusive learning environment. • Personal attributes of emotional intelligence, autonomy, empathy, and the ability to maintain composure in challenging situations, emphasizing a proactive, forward-looking approach in software development. • Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others. • Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and has prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year) • Braven supports your path to parenthood and beyond with $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health • Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month • Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents • 12 weeks of paid parental leave • A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff