Principal Engineer Back End

Submittable · Remote

Company

Submittable

Location

Remote

Type

Full Time

Job Description


Submittable is a growing social impact platform used by thousands of companies, governments, and philanthropic organizations to manage their social impact programs and maximize their impact. We have helped big and small organizations worldwide run 134,000 programs and collect nearly 22 million applications to date.

Are you inspired by inventions? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? At Submittable we build software that enables our customers to drive positive social change around the globe. This is an amazing opportunity to join a growing SaaS startup focused on building a product that at its core, is designed to help.   

This is a senior technical leadership role on the Submittable engineering team. As a principal engineer you will have the opportunity to drive and own architecture for systems and services. You will have a strong influence on our choice of stacks, languages, and frameworks. You will help to mentor and grow our junior engineers, and you will contribute to building a positive and inclusive engineering culture. 

If you are ready for a new adventure at a growing SaaS startup, we would love to hear from you. Our engineering offices are located in Bellevue, WA and Missoula, MT. 

Responsibilities:

  • Play a central role in the technical design process of new systems, services, databases, and platforms
  • Ensure engineering efforts are high quality and moving in the right direction
  • Work cross functionally to ensure that infrastructure and test efforts align with planned feature timelines
  • Act as a consultant for feature teams and any technical issue in engineering
  • Function as the most senior technical resource for the various Scrum teams
  • Mentor software engineers and engineering managers from a technical perspective
  • Review code/PRs ensuring that our software is increasing in quality and providing feedback to ICs about their code
  • Work closely with internal engineering stakeholders and external product managers to couple the growth and capabilities of the platform to the needs of the company
  • Drive the reduction of technical debt through a cycle of continuous improvement and iterative change

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking (DNS, SSL, Virtual Networks, VPC, VPN, Routing, Peering, NATs, Firewalls, WAF, DoS Protection).
  • Must be able to work with technologies including: AWS, Azure, Git, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS CDK/SDK/API, Terraform, Python, .NET, Java, JavaScript, Bash, YAML, DAST, Datadog, Akamai.
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operation.
  • Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems.
  • Experience building cloud native applications that run on Kubernetes is desired.
  • Experience in communicating with other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
  • Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, making them more effective software engineers.
  • Experience influencing software engineering best practices across many teams.
  • Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States, however, we are unable to accommodate scholastic or employment visas at this time.

About Submittable

Submittable is on a mission to empower social good organizations with technology that accelerates their work and scales their impact. We partnered with thousands of organizations, governments, and corporations last year to launch 10,000+ programs, process over 4 million applications, and distribute $2.5 billion in funding and aid. Grow your career at a public benefit corporation and Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, while having a positive impact on people globally.

Submittable's headquarters office is in downtown Missoula, Montana, with a satellite office in Bellevue, Washington and remote employees located around the U.S.

We are proud to offer highly-competitive benefits for full-time employees, including:

  • Health insurance, 401K, life insurance, and optional HSA, FSA, and DCA accounts
  • Flexible hours, including flexible vacations and sick leave, and remote work options
  • Generous paid parental leave policy for mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents
  • Professional development stipends
  • Involvement in community outreach programs for all employees, including company volunteer outings at local nonprofits
  • Fully-stocked kitchens with complimentary snacks and beverages for all employees when working in either of our offices 
  • Weekly catered lunches in both offices 
  • Monthly company sponsored happy hours and gatherings 

As a product used globally, we're very motivated to hire and support employees who are representative of different and diverse backgrounds and experiences, including but not limited to diversity of ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion, ability, culture, and socioeconomics.

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Date Posted

11/16/2022

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