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About the role
We are looking for an ambitious Staff Software Engineer who wants to make an impact at a mission-driven company. You are excited to work with a low-ego highly collaborative team and take on a high level of responsibility across many projects.
FreeWill has set compensation and a non-negotiation policy for fairness reasons (we don't think that an individual's pay should be determined by how comfortable they are negotiating). As a result we like to be transparent and up front about the compensation. When we make an offer we provide multiple options so that employees can choose between compensation packages that prioritize salary or stock options. The salary range for this role is $215000-230000. This role is also eligible for a signing bonus and will come with stock options and full benefits.
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.
Technical Skills
- 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.
- Early startup experience preferred
- Strong proficiency with modern web architecture including Node.js Typescript React cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) SQL API design continuous integration and automated testing.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and tooling including infrastructure-as-code CI/CD and monitoring is a strong plus.
Hiring Process
The hiring process for this role is as follows:
- Recruiter Phone Screen (30 minutes)
- Hiring Manager Interview (30 Minutes)
- Coding Screen (45 minutes)
- Super Day Interviews: 3 Final Interviews with FreeWill team members (separate interviews- between 45 minutes and 1 hour)
- Offer (contingent on positive references)
Please note that steps in the hiring process can and may change and the Recruiter will be your point of contact in sharing about any updates in terms of the process. If you are selected to move forward in this process the Recruiter will share more details about the hiring process and interviewers. However this is a good estimate of what you can expect. For most roles our hiring processes take an average of 4-6 weeks.
Benefits
In addition to the immense personal and professional satisfaction you’ll gain from helping to raise $1T for high impact nonprofits in a kind and joyful work environment full time employees at FreeWill are eligible for the following 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
Perks
- 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
- $1000 referral bonuses for growing our FreeWill community
- $1000 annual professional development budget
FreeWill is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We are committed to finding talent that is not determined on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are a remote-first company that’s able to hire in 47 states and D.C. Unfortunately we are unable to hire in Colorado Alabama or Louisiana at this time. We also can’t sponsor working visas so all applicants will need to have work authorization in the US.
Don’t check off every box in the requirements listed above? Please apply anyway! Studies have shown that marginalized communities - such as women LGBTQ+ and people of color - are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. FreeWill is dedicated to building an inclusive diverse equitable and accessible workplace that fosters a sense of belonging – so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings!