Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Collective, a company redefining how businesses-of-one operate, as a Backend Engineer. You will be a key architect of the backend for core products (Onboarding, Bookkeeping, Payroll, and Taxes), working with React, Django, and Postgres. This high-impact role involves crafting the v2 architecture, collaborating cross-functionally, ensuring timely project delivery, contributing to development standards, and mentoring junior engineers. Collective offers a competitive salary, remote-first environment, stock options, unlimited PTO, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive team culture.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of experience developing platforms for user facing applications with Python
• Strong foundation in core data modeling, API design concepts and service oriented architecture
• Solid understanding in concepts like graphQL, idempotency, API response latency, cloud deployments and troubleshooting
• Ability to understand the business needs with respect to designing the architecture, while effectively communicating complex ideas to the rest of the team and stakeholders
• Prior experience or strong ability in tech leadership responsibilities, such as taking charge in technical decision-making, strategizing for and managing technical debt, and creating roadmaps for future developments
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers
• Passion for working with users, building a platform that supports great user experience spanning web and mobile
• Comfortable working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• An appreciation for the importance of good documentation -- internal and external
• Attention to detail, especially around performance, accessibility, reliability and security

Responsibilities

• Craft the v2 architecture for Collective BE platform that delivers more complex interactions while maintaining a consistent experience wrt API, maintainability and reusability
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to novel products and features that our users will love
• Ensure timely delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible projects by participating in the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch
• Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and mentor junior engineers to grow their technical expertise
• Participate in writing design docs and reviewing code
• Work closely with product and design giving feedback on specs and mocks

Preferred Qualifications

• Has shipped a platform that has been used by other external applications/customers via APIs
• Experience working with a remote team
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure

Benefits

• Compensation Range: $198,000-$230,000 USD annual base salary
• A remote first environment
• A diverse and collaborative team culture
• Stock options package
• 14 company holidays + unlimited PTO
• 401K
• Employer paid Health, Vision and Dental Insurance. 100% coverage for employees
• 75% coverage for dependents
• Up to $5,000 for out of state travel expenses, if needed
• PC or Mac laptop + $750 Home office stipend
• Paid parental leave
• Team events and virtual gatherings
• $600 wellness bonus