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Staff Software Engineer building reliable, accessible government-service technology at Code for America. Guiding technical direction, delivery practices, architecture, and engineering mentorship.
Responsibilities:
- Craft new features that help users more easily navigate government services and receive a dignified experience
- Write automated tests and develop monitoring strategies to ensure a high level of service quality
- Work iteratively to ship minimal features, learn, and harden them to scale once proven
- Contribute to design, implementation, and code review, and make technical trade-offs alongside the team, responsibly using AI-assisted development
- Own architecture and data-modeling decisions for significant parts of a production system
- Produce quality documentation and learning materials for internal and external audiences
- Establish direction for technical work, anticipate challenges, document decisions, and explain the rationale behind approaches
- Collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional peers as priorities, technology, and team needs shift
- Commit to paths forward when the team is stuck and revise as new information emerges
- Mentor engineers on technical judgment and engineering practice through pairing, documentation, structured learning, or coaching
- Guide team norms, surface dependencies, align shared patterns, and strengthen delivery practices
- Report to the Engineering Manager
- Travel no more than 10% of the time
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong expertise in system architecture, data modeling, web technologies, and API design
- Experience working across multiple languages, frameworks, and tech stacks — or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly into unfamiliar ones
- Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools judiciously, validating and refining generated code for quality
- Experience with Agile Software Development models like Scrum, XP, TDD, or BDD
- Demonstrated technical leadership in a team environment
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tooling
- Eager collaboration with peers, and in providing technical and professional mentorship
- Truly excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Expert understanding and experience communicating with cross-functional peers, and in translating those conversations into actionable tasks
- A deep commitment to Code for America's mission
- Main residence must be within the United States
- Availability during internal working hours of 10 AM - 3 PM PT
Benefits:
- Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another
- A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment
- Laptop provided
- A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy
- Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month
- $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire
- Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000
- Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth
- Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions
- Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5%
- At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage
- A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage
- Code for America employees may work remotely across the US
- Full-time employees work 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday
- Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day
- Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually
- 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave
- 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
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