Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Propel is on a mission to build modern, respectful, and effective technology that helps low-income Americans improve their financial health. All of our users deserve first-class experiences in their daily interactions with the social safety net and financial services, and too often, tech leaves this population behind. We’re a passionate team of 100 Propellers – all working towards a vision where all Americans can make it through every month with dignity and abundance. We're looking for a motivated Fullstack Engineer to join our engineering team at Propel to help make this a reality. This role will make an impact and possibly work across several products and stacks, including interacting with government programs, surfacing savings opportunities, healthcare, internal tooling, architecture, and more! We are looking for a passionate, user-centric fullstack engineer that is excited about working on meaningful and complex technical problems that have a positive impact on our users’ lives.

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years experience in designing, building, shipping, and maintaining complex full-stack software at scale
• Languages: Fluency in at least one backend and one frontend language, with a willingness to learn Python and JavaScript
• Environment: Experience working in a startup environment and possess the ability to operate effectively and independently when faced with ambiguity
• Flexibility: Flexibility in operating as a pure individual contributor or as a manager of a small team
• Ramping: Ability to ramp up quickly to our product ecosystem to contribute to large and impactful projects
• Communication: Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences and topics, both written and verbal
• Feedback: Ability to provide excellent feedback in technical specs, code reviews, a written and verbal format.

Responsibilities

• Be a strategic leader in identifying the best technical and product opportunities.
• Hop in to build a service from scratch to support a new product line or advocate for a large refactor of a legacy system.
• Lead a team at various points.
• Up-level and set the bar for engineering.
• Be a role model for others and establish best practices when it comes to technical decisions, code hygiene, written communication and documentation, and judgment when it comes to shipping high-quality products and projects on a timeline.
• Dive deep into the most important, highest complexity problems at the company.
• Tackle tough but rewarding challenges with autonomy and support.

Application Instructions

• Not specified.

Company Information

• Mission: To build modern, respectful, and effective technology that helps low-income Americans improve their financial health.
• Team Size: 100 Propellers