Staff Product Engineer

🕒 August 26

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Candid

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2019

🤝 Non-profit

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

Non-profit • API • SaaS

Candid is a nonprofit organization that collects, curates, and distributes comprehensive data and insights about nonprofits and foundations. It provides searchable organization profiles, grant and funding data, research and analysis, and developer APIs and data services to help funders, nonprofits, researchers, and technical partners find funding, verify organizations, and integrate nonprofit data into workflows.

📋 Description

• Own engineering end-to-end for the team, including product surface, backend, infrastructure, deployment, and operations • Use AI-assisted development, including agentic coding tools, code generation, and LLMs, to multiply output • Build AI capabilities into the product through LLM integration, prompt and context engineering, retrieval, and agentic patterns • Apply sound judgment regarding evaluation, guardrails, and appropriate use of AI • Partner equally with the product manager and designer in discovery and delivery • Bring a point of view on customers and problems, pressure-test direction, and focus the team on outcomes • Produce reference implementations, reusable patterns, and scaffolds • Share learnings through demos, writing, brown-bag sessions, and pairing • Set standards for quality in code, tests, and documentation

🎯 Requirements

• 7-10 years of relevant experience • Extensive, hands-on software engineering experience • Track record of independently owning and shipping significant systems end-to-end without scaffolding or hand-holding • Demonstrated fluency with AI-assisted development tools • Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features in production • Strong architectural judgment and pragmatic build / buy / simplify instincts across the full stack • Genuine product sense and history of partnering closely with product and design • Evidence of force-multiplication through example, mentorship, reusable work, or influence without formal authority • High agency, bias to action, comfort with ambiguity, accountability for outcomes, and effectiveness without management overhead • Comfort with visibility and willingness to champion better engineering practices across the organization • Willingness to perform other duties and special projects as needed/requested • Sensitivity and respect for racial, gender, sexual orientation, and cultural differences • Commitment to Candid's values: driven, direct, accessible, curious, and inclusive

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) • Retirement contribution with additional option for a match • Paid life insurance and AD&D • Paid leave time (PTO, compassionate leave, volunteer, holiday, parental) • Short-term and long-term disability • Pre-tax transit • Flexible spending accounts • Supplemental insurance • Summer hours • Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program eligible employer • 35-hour work week