Staff Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

Guideline is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our expanding engineering team. You will join a distributed team of remote employees and employees based near our offices. As a Full Stack Engineer on an agile team, you will build upon our growing line of products that bring the possibility of a safe retirement to more people.

In Short

• Scope projects and design systems architecture for usability and scaling our products.
• Bring modern software solutions to an antiquated financial industry using your expertise of building full stack software solutions.
• Build elegant software from the ground up by creating user interfaces, using message queuing infrastructure, streamlining operations and designing systems architecture.
• Work with a group of passionate technologists to help automate administrative tasks and build unique solutions to solve our users' problems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building consumer-facing software products, with 2+ years leading technical direction for a team of engineers.
• Expertise in at least one backend language (Ruby, Python, etc.)
• Fundamental proficiency in the frontend framework React
• Well versed in operating one or more modern databases, designing scalable APIs, and building delightful user interfaces.
• Familiarity with building and scaling a distributed systems environment built with Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance — We offer multiple plan options with varying company premium contributions
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Company paid disability and life insurance
• Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Flexible time off in addition to company holidays
• We use our own platform and contribute 100% of employee contributions up to 5%
• 1-month paid Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
• Annual learning and development stipend — We reimburse approved professional development expenses, up to $750 per employee per year