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STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER (FULLSTACK)

Propel • Remote • Posted 2 days ago

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Remote • Full-time • $220,000-$240,000/yr • Senior Level

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Propel is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their team, focusing on fullstack engineering. The role involves making a significant impact across several products and stacks, including mobile banking, government programs, and internal tooling. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader in technical and product opportunities, uplevel the engineering team, and tackle complex problems with a focus on improving the financial health of low-income Americans.

Responsibilities

  • Identify the best technical and product opportunities.
  • Build services from scratch to support new product lines.
  • Advocate for large refactors of legacy systems.
  • Set the technical and product direction of the company.
  • Up-level and set the bar for engineering.
  • Dive deep into complex problems at the company.
  • Provide excellent feedback in technical specs, code reviews, and team discussions.
  • Mentor and up-level other engineers.

Qualifications

Required

  • 10+ years experience in designing, building, shipping, and maintaining complex full-stack software at scale
  • Fluency in at least one backend and one frontend language
  • Ability to operate effectively and independently in ambiguous environments
  • Ability to ramp up quickly to product ecosystems
  • Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred

  • Track record of identifying and driving change
  • Experience with building consumer-facing products for large user bases
  • Curiosity and excitement in new technologies, stacks, or novel problems
  • Excellent judgment in trading off speed of shipping vs. robustness and scalability
  • Ability to adapt and communicate across all levels of seniority
  • Focus on impact and ability to prioritize both long-term and short-term needs

About Propel

PropellerAds is a leading ad network in the technology-driven advertising industry, offering top-quality user acquisition and ad optimization solutions for affiliates. They focus on exceptional traffic quality, substantial volume, ad performance, and automation powered by AI algorithms to help affiliates achieve impressive results and reach their business goals efficiently. With a wide range of ad formats, including Push Notifications, PropellerAds caters to various industries such as mobile utilities, software, e-commerce, mobile apps, lead generation, and finance, making it an ideal choice for affiliates and agencies seeking effective advertising solutions.

Full Job Description

Are you a Fullstack Engineer looking to make a big impact at a mission-driven company? Do you thrive in high-autonomy startup environments? 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 mobile banking, 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.Here's how you'll impact the company:Be a strategic leader in identifying the best technical and product opportunities. Whether it’s hopping in to build a service from scratch to support a new product line or advocating for a large refactor of a legacy system, this role will have a strong voice in setting the technical and product direction of the company and be hands-on in making it happen.Up-level and set the bar for engineering. You will 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. When there is something that needs to get done at high complexity and scale, you’ll be someone we lean on to help get it done. You’ll be given both a lot of autonomy and a lot of support in how you want to tackle tough but rewarding challenges!Requirements:10+ years experience in designing, building, shipping, and maintaining complex full-stack software at scaleFluency in at least one backend and one frontend language, with a willingness to learn Python and JavaScriptExperience working in a startup environment and ability to operate effectively and independently when faced with ambiguityAbility to ramp up quickly to our product ecosystem to contribute to large and impactful projectsExcellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences and topics, both written and verbalAbility to provide excellent feedback in technical specs, code reviews, and team discussionsPassion for making a difference in the lives of our usersExceptional candidates will have:A track record of identifying the right problems to solve, advocating for and driving change, and keeping stakeholders in the loopExperience with building consumer-facing product(s) for large user basesCuriosity and excitement when confronted with new technologies, stacks, or novel problemsExcellent judgment when trading off speed of shipping vs. robustness and scalabilityThe ability to adapt and communicate smoothly across all levels of seniorityA focus on impact and ability to prioritize both long-term and short-term needsEagerness to participate at the strategic level when it comes to the technical and product roadmap and prioritization on the organization-levelPassion and skill for mentoring and up-leveling other engineersAt Propel, you'll enjoy:Meaningful work and a strong, shared sense of mission with a passionate and world-class teamReporting directly to the VP of Engineering, who reports directly to the CEORemote-friendly work environment with a dog-friendly office in Downtown Brooklyn and satellite offices in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. The team meets in-person for optional retreats.20 days of PTO and unlimited sick days4% 401K match$10k lifetime spend towards Carrot FertilityExcellent Medical, Dental and Vision optionsOther health and mental health focused benefits and perks Propel builds compensation bands referencing the 75th percentile of compensation for companies like us. Expected compensation for the role as scoped is $220K - $240K and will be based on how a candidate matches to our internal leveling guide. Bands may be expanded if someone is leveled more senior than the role was initially scoped.Additional Considerations:We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team, and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and abilities.We're currently accepting applications from the states where we have an established entity, which includes California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.More About PropelWe believe that Americans with limited income deserve modern, respectful, and effective experiences around their government benefits and money. Unfortunately, the status quo often fails to treat them as first-class citizens in their daily interactions around the social safety net and financial services. The tech industry hasn’t pulled its weight in solving the problems faced by low-income Americans.Propel’s mission is to change that. We’ve built Providers, the single most popular app in the country built specifically for low-income Americans. Over 5 million families each month use Providers to seamlessly manage their government benefits (programs like SNAP, commonly known as food stamps), conduct their banking, and save and earn money. Providers has been recognized by the White House, featured on the front page of the NYTimes, and carries over 500,000 five star reviews. Propel is a for-profit, venture-backed start-up company that holds its social mission at its core. We’re proud to be supported by a blend of nonprofits, impact investors, and world-class investors, including the Robin Hood Foundation, Andreessen Horowitz, Nyca Partners, Financial Health Network, JPMorganChase, Kevin Durant, Serena Williams, and Nas. For us to build a self-sustaining and profitable business, we need to deeply understand our user’s needs and build multiple successful products addressing those needs. If this challenge appeals to you, we’d love to talk!Join us, and let's build something amazing together!