About the role

Staff Engineer leading technical strategy and major platform initiatives for a mission-driven software company supporting social services. Focusing on architectural direction and leveraging AI for efficiency.

Responsibilities

Own cross-team technical strategy for major platform areas — setting direction on architecture, reliability, and scalability, not just within your squad but across engineering
Lead complex, multi-quarter infrastructure and architectural initiatives from design through delivery, coordinating dependencies across teams
Define and champion engineering standards and patterns that make the codebase more flexible, scalable, and maintainable for all engineers
Partner closely with Product, Policy, and Technical Account Management to shape roadmap decisions with strong technical and product perspective
Identify and resolve systemic risks — including security, HIPAA compliance, performance bottlenecks, and incident response — before they become problems
Raise the technical ceiling for the whole engineering org through code review, design critique, and modeling excellent judgment
Proactively leverage AI and modern tooling to drive higher output quality and team efficiency

Demonstrated track record leading large-scale infrastructure and architectural projects across multiple teams or systems
Ability to set technical direction, not just execute on it — including navigating ambiguity, making principled trade-offs, and bringing others along
Deep experience building and maintaining configurable, enterprise-grade systems; government-facing software experience is a strong plus
Strong command of Ruby on Rails and React; GraphQL experience a plus
Product orientation — you think about user impact and business outcomes, not just technical elegance
Excellent communication skills: you can distill complex technical decisions for product, engineering, and non-technical stakeholders
Experience mentoring and elevating senior engineers, and a genuine investment in team culture
Fluency applying AI tools in your own workflow and excitement about building AI-powered product features

An above-market compensation package (salary + equity)
Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance - 99% of insurance premiums covered for you + your dependents
Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend
13 paid holidays; 11 federally observed holidays (including Juneteenth), plus Election Day and the day after Thanksgiving
16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for the arrival of a newborn or newly placed infant
Sick/mental health time separate from vacation days (accrue up to a cap of 80 hours)
4 weeks of sabbatical after 4 years of service at the company
401k, Commuter benefits, FSA, and DCFSA with administration paid for
$5,000 annual bonus for employees who volunteer as a CASA (court-appointed special advocates)
$2,500 annual reimbursement for ongoing learning and development, with opportunities to attend trainings/conferences, on-site speaker series, and lunch and learns
$300 reimbursement for initial office setup
$50 a month effective work reimbursement to cover internet, electricity, office setup costs, or lunch/snacks with coworkers
Paid jury duty