Staff Software Engineer

About the role:

Code for America software engineers are involved in every stage of our products’ lifecycle, from prototyping and design, to developing features in response to user feedback, to operating technical systems at scale.

Staff Software Engineers further support organization-wide technical efforts and strengthen our software engineering teams as internal champions and subject matter experts for specific technology domains, tools, and processes.

This role will report to our Senior Director of Engineering and is expected to travel no more than 10% of the time.

In this position you will:

• Specialty Engineering
  • Every Staff Engineer at Code for America has a specialty area for which they act as a Subject Matter Expert in contexts and conversations across the organization.
  • Examples of how Specialty Engineering knowledge is currently applied:
    • Facilitating strategy and roadmapping conversations about areas of expertise.
    • Own technical decision making and documentation around the implementation and architecture of your SME area.
    • Authoring developer-centric documentation and best practice guidelines.
    • Working with other engineering leaders on how to upskill their teams in your area of expertise.
    • Create and maintain detailed learning and reference materials, including practical examples and prototypes.
• Product Engineering
  • Craft new features that help users more easily navigate government services and receive a dignified experience.
  • Write automated tests and develop monitoring strategies to ensure a high level of service quality.
  • Implement minimal features to maximize learning, and then harden features to scale when we know they work.
  • Support Engineering’s culture of writing by producing quality documentation and learning materials for internal and external audiences.
• Mentorship
  • Be a friendly face, eager collaborator, and mentor for other software engineers in your particular area of expertise.
• Other duties as assigned