Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Organization

Stand Together Foundation

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Job Description

Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.
Our community is growing and so is the impact of our work to move toward a society where everyone has the opportunity to succeed by benefiting others. We're looking for a Sr. Full Stack Engineer to support Stand Together Foundation and a pipeline of new and innovative technology projects, building across a cross-disciplinary team of strategists, data scientists, designers, and developers who believe in people and the power of technology to help people transform their lives and society. Our team seeks to build a series of ambitious products and services to improve the social sector and help ensure that philanthropic and public resources are targeted to individuals and communities who can benefit from them the most.
 
As a Sr. Full Stack Engineer, you will utilize your skills and business acumen to work with internal and external partners to understand multi-faceted technology and business processes and help drive the delivery of new products.  You will use process mapping best practices, visualization tools, and knowledge of technology to clearly lay out requirements and process maps on key processes and workflows.
 
To thrive in this role, you will engage with humility, curiosity, and strong organizational skills to bring visibility to complex business operations and workflows, and then partner as a consultant with stakeholders and developers to inform innovative solutions.
 
Many reading this job description likely will not have considered a product role in the social sector.  If you have experience building products at for profit companies and are ready to tackle some of society’s greatest problems, this role is the perfect chance to apply your well-honed skills to a completely new domain - with the potential to radically improve society.   
Why you want to work here: Leadership that values people over process
●      Work on a project focused team with autonomy to make decisions
●      Build impactful solutions that help people improve their lives
What you’ll do:
●      Work in modern technologies and frameworks
●      Be a valued member of an autonomous project team
●      Iterate and experiment to deliver new and existing digital, data-focused products to a diverse set of customers
●      Be a technical leader both within your project team and the STF community as a whole
●      Work with modern tech stacks/tools, and advance STF’s practice in the delivery of digital product
●      Work with different customer bases in a variety of technologies
●      Work across the full stack, seeing features through from concept to delivery
●      Help define the product roadmap and near- and long-term technology priorities
Where you’ll be:
●      We are based in Arlington Virginia, and would love an engineer who can come at least most days of the week. We're also considering talented candidates with remote preference.
When applying, please include links to any engineering portfolios/ GitHub repositories you think we should be across.  

Knowledge & Skills You Bring to the Organization

  • At least 6 years of experience in either frontend or backend web technologies and a strong interest in learning technologies across the stack
  • Experience leading software engineers or other technical practitioners
  • Passionate about user experience
  • Knows and cares about sound product delivery practices like continuous delivery, automated testing, and test-driven development
  • Willing to fail fast and continuously iterate
  • Values high quality, maintainable code, collective code ownership, and continuous improvement
  • Curious and collaborative, open to occasional pair programming and mentoring/learning from others
  • Low ego and willing to learn
  • Inclusive and open minded
  • Proficient in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms with deployment experience in at least one platform (e.g. AWS)
  • Experience with SQL a must NoSQL preferred but not required
  • Have professional experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js
  • Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks and tooling, like Next.js, Express, Storybook, or similar

Standout Candidates May Bring

  • Have driven technology on a project team before
  • Have experience with service-oriented products
  • Have professional experience with production statistical models and statistical programming languages such as Python, R, or Julia
  • Be an active community member who can learn and bring back new and exciting ideas

What We Offer

  • A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of people in America.  
  • A vision-driven organization of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others.  
  • Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve.  
  • Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting.  
  • Competitive health and wellness benefits.  
  • Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed.  
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs.  


    • For this position we anticipate paying between $110,000 - $175,000 per year. Actual amount may be higher or lower based on various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. Employees may be eligible to participate in our benefits programs which include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts, life insurance, AD&D, disability, retirement, paid vacation, paid parental leave and educational assistance. Specific eligibility criteria are defined by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline.

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.  Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.  
 
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.   
 
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.