Staff Software Engineer - Grants

Submittable is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our dynamic, growth-driven team in Missoula, MT or Seattle, WA. This position is open to remote candidates and is an incredible opportunity for someone looking to take on a technical leadership role in a rapidly growing company.

This person will be responsible for the technical leadership of a single engineering team, both strategically and tactically. As a staff engineer you will come up to speed on the software that the team owns and work with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and team members to drive the software forward in terms of both quality and new features.

The position is a full-time, individual contributor, code writing role reporting to the Director of Engineering.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Jump into our software and infrastructure, quickly becoming an expert on where we are today
• Identify near term improvements to our existing system. The improvements might include enhancements to our developer experience, infrastructure architecture, or core platform, to support near-term growth and stability
• Collaborate with other leadership on internal engineering initiatives, the engineering roadmap, and the burn down of tech debt
• Work on an engineering team with other software engineers and work closely with test engineers, and product managers. In most cases you’ll be the technical lead for the team, expected to mentor less senior engineers
• Drive rive productive engineering discussions, generating excitement and buy-in
• Write and review code

You'll Be Successful With:

• Legacy and modern Web Application design paradigms and at least one stack, top to bottom. Our legacy back-end stack is ASP.NET MVC, C#, and SQL Server while our new systems are using .NET Core, Lambda, and Postgres. On the front-end, you'll find React and Redux
• Software Engineering - we’re looking for an expert, someone who can and will learn what they need up and down the stack, from the infrastructure in AWS to .NET to React/Redux
• Modern cloud native infrastructure and design principles, specifically in the context of AWS
• Database design - we’re looking for someone with expertise in optimizing data centric systems. Ideally, experience would include using ORMs and migrating a system from direct-to-DB queries to thoughtful abstraction
• Scale - we utilize a complex ETL pipeline, SQS queues, Elasticsearch, and more for various large scale problems such as reporting and analytics
• Strong writing skills, and a preference for writing things down
• Strongly executing an engineering team with a track record of consistently delivering
• Ensuring engineers on your team feel supported and backed-up
• Creating tangible and measurable near-term improvements to our software and infrastructure