murmuration

Staff Software Engineer

murmuration

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $170,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AngularCloudGraphQLJavaScriptReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Be a driver: Decide on key architecture changes and features that help us design, build, and maintain components that build user trust. Your systems thinking will help us make smart long-term decisions and mitigate risks
  • Be a teacher: Share your technical expertise by helping us evolve our engineering best practices for code reviews, design, and development execution
  • Be a mentor: Share your approach to fostering an engineering culture that helps us all grow as technical and inclusive leaders
  • Be a collaborator: Work closely with our cross-functional teams such as Product, Design, and Data Engineering, to align technical work with product requirements that thoughtfully address user pain points and make our product more accessible for all (WCAG compliance)
  • Be a technical steward: Lead release planning and operational readiness by helping the team build confidence in managing builds, deployments, and maintenance for mission-critical features. Your guidance will ensure reliability, stability, and shared ownership of our systems
  • Be an advocate: Champion changes that matter such as continuous improvement, infrastructure upgrades that serve us at scale, performance optimizations, and technical debt reduction

Requirements

  • Proven experience building modern JavaScript/TypeScript solutions (Angular, React, or similar)
  • Proven experience designing APIs and relational data models (GraphQL or equivalent)
  • Proven experience leading feature delivery and managing releases in production systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical partners
  • Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership in team settings
  • Familiarity with accessible web standards (WCAG compliance)
  • **Nice to Haves**
  • Formal degree optional; we welcome candidates from nontraditional or retraining paths
  • Experience in civic-tech, nonprofit, or data-driven social-impact products
  • Familiarity with design systems and tools (Figma or similar)
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployment
  • Full-stack or open-source contributions
  • Experience mentoring or shaping engineering ladders
Benefits
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family members
  • Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match
  • A flexible unlimited PTO plan
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • A company laptop
  • A flexible remote work environment
  • A home office setup stipend for all new employees
  • Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses
  • A yearly professional development fund
  • Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help
  • Yearly in-person staff retreats
  • A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptAngularReactAPIsrelational data modelsGraphQLCI/CD pipelinescloud deploymentfull-stack development
Soft skills
communicationmentorshiptechnical leadershipcollaborationsystems thinkingproblem-solvinginclusive leadershipcontinuous improvementrisk mitigationteaching