Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join a remote company based in Austin, Texas, as a software developer to help entrepreneurs launch and run their own businesses. The role involves working with engineers, product owners, marketing, and designers to deliver new features and enhancements that change the lives of small business customers.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of WordPress software development experience (Guttenberg editor, Advanced Custom Fields)
• Experience shipping web-based products, working with designers and product owners to develop and deliver workflows and libraries
• Extensive experience with operations, API development, and modern service-oriented architecture
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to articulate your decisions, whiteboard new solutions, present ideas concisely, and defend your ideas
• Excited about working with designers to create an amazing user experience
• Curious and comfortable learning new things and diving in where needed
• Familiarity with JavaScript, React, Python is a plus

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality, predictable, observable code and deliver it to production
• Own the delivery of new features by working iteratively with the design, engineers, marketing, and product owners to define and deliver new functionality
• Work in an agile, data-driven environment and have true ownership of the features you work on, from gathering requirements to delivering results
• Use data-driven decision-making to improve your code (logs, usage analytics, monitoring)
• Serve as a technical leader and mentor for the engineering team, providing guidance and support to less experienced developers
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team and across the organization

Benefits

• Good salaries
• Benefits (medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance)
• Parental and military leave
• Employee assistance program
• 401k + match
• Annual bonus
• Pet insurance
• RSUs
• Paid parking*
• 10 paid holidays