Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

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Substantial is looking for a senior-level software engineer to provide technical leadership and guidance to our cross-disciplinary team of product strategists, designers, and developers and join us in our belief in the power of technological innovation to improve our lives and society. Together, our teams imagine and build ambitious products and services for our clients who range from up and coming startups to mission-focused non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 corporations.
As a hybrid company we’re open to fully remote candidates not based in Seattle.

What you’ll do:

• Be a valued member of our autonomous project teams
• Iterate and experiment to deliver on new and existing products
• Be a technical leader both within your project team, your department, and the organization
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, designers, and clients with a human-centered mindset
• Work with modern tech stacks/tools, and advance our practice in software delivery
• Work with clients from a variety of industries in a variety of technologies
• Work across the full stack, seeing features through from concept to delivery

Why you want to work at Substantial:

• Small project-focused teams, each with autonomy to make decisions
• Project variety w.r.t. scope, industry, tech stack, and duration
• Exposure and expertise with modern technologies and frameworks
• Overtime is rare and discouraged
• Leadership values people over process

Where you’ll be:

• We are a remote first, distributed workforce, enabling our team to find a work mode that best works for them
• Prefer an office to work from? We have a beautiful office in the heart of Capitol Hill Seattle, WA
• Working hours? We operate within the Pacific Standard time zone for collaboration, but teams are open to experiment as long as there is a shared agreement that works with the team and client

Requirements

Who You Are:

• An experienced developer with at least 5 years of experience in either front or back end web technologies, with a strong interest in learning technologies across the stack
• Passionate about user experiences
• Knows and cares about sound product delivery practices like continuous delivery and automated testing
• Values high quality, maintainable code, collective code ownership, and continuous improvement
• Curious and collaborative, open to occasional pair programming and mentoring/learning from others
• Inclusive and open minded
• Open to aligning broadly with the Pacific time zone for collaboration
• Based in the USA or Canada

We’d particularly love if you:

• Have professional experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js and/or Ruby on Rails
• Have led technology on a project team before
• Have experience in client services
• Have experience with service-oriented and/or event-driven architectures
• Have mobile development experience in Swift, Kotlin, or React Native
• Are an active community member who can learn and bring back new and exciting ideas

Benefits
Our comprehensive set of benefits is designed to help you do your best work and support your life in & out of the office.

• Healthcare (medical, dental, & vision w/fully-paid premiums)
• 401(k) program
• Profit-sharing policy
• Generous PTO policy (starting at 3 weeks/year), including two floating holidays
• Education and home office benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Flexible working
• A happy workplace (vibrant Capitol Hill location with great people, a fully stocked kitchen, free yoga and other perks)

About Substantial

Founded in 2006, Substantial is an industry-leading consulting studio recognized for an unmatched ability to deliver high-quality research and design with unparalleled technical excellence. Substantial has partnered with some of the biggest companies and most successful start-ups in the world to imagine, build and sustain business-changing products and services.
People of Color, LGBTQ+ individuals, women and members of historically marginalized populations encouraged to apply.
Substantial strives to be a diverse, inclusive and anti-racist workplace. We value diverse perspectives on our product teams and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and walks of life. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, physical appearance, age or national origin. Racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, or any other form of bigotry have no place here.
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