Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join FreeWill, an award-winning social-good startup, as a Staff Software Engineer and make a significant impact. You will play a lead role in shaping the architectural direction, establishing the technical roadmap, and mentoring engineers. This role offers a competitive salary ($215,000-230,000) plus a signing bonus, stock options, and full benefits. Work remotely from anywhere in the US (excluding AL, CO, LA). FreeWill fosters a collaborative, inclusive culture and values diversity. The company is committed to building a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging.

Requirements

• 10+ years building production systems for complex web applications
• Extensive experience leading projects on teams of varying compositions, from single-engineer efforts to fully staffed multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong proficiency with modern web architecture including Node.js, Typescript, React, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), SQL, API design, continuous integration, and automated testing

Responsibilities

• Define and shape the architectural direction of FreeWill’s engineering efforts, building scalable systems that drive our future product innovations
• Play a lead role in establishing our technical roadmap and engineering culture
• Ideate and own the delivery of impactful technical initiatives, effectively soliciting team support and connecting deliverables to business value
• Mentor engineers across seniority levels, fostering an inclusive culture that empowers engineers to leap forwards in their careers
• Continually elevate the team’s proficiency with modern web tooling, while demonstrating the adaptability to deliver high-value solutions in unfamiliar problem contexts

Preferred Qualifications

• Early startup experience
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tooling, including infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and monitoring

Benefits

• Work from home
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible hours
• Competitive salary
• Commuter benefits
• Company stock options
• 401k
• Medical/Dental/Vision (some single coverage medical plans are 100% employer paid, subsidized rates for spousal, parent-child, and family coverage)
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Free One Medical membership
• Paid parental leave for all parents
• Regular (virtual) team events
• $250 monthly co-working budget which can be used for local co-working spaces
• $300 annual budget to outfit your home office or cover utility bills
• $1,000 referral bonuses for growing our FreeWill community
• $1,000 annual professional development budget