Note: We support 100% remote work for applicants who reside in the following states: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington.

Textio’s mission is to build software that interrupts bias in communication and creates inclusive understanding between people. Our category-defining augmented writing products deliver insights into organizations’ culture and language patterns, helping build more equitable workplaces. We’re looking for a creative backend Staff Software Engineer to help us design and build the systems that power our visual reporting and other insights.

As an engineer on the Organizational Health team, you will collaborate closely with engineers, data scientists, and the product team to create the distributed services that drive our data insights. We build our backend services using technologies such as Python, Docker, AWS Fargate, Lambda, CDK, and RDS Postgres.

You will be joining a welcoming and collaborative team at a company with language and data at its heart. We’re seeking a new teammate who will bring experience, skills, and perspectives that complement and strengthen our own.

What you’ll do at Textio:

• Work in a small, empowered team with teammates across Design, Product, Data Science, and Engineering to craft services that power ground-breaking web applications
• Bring an experienced perspective on API design patterns to design and develop RESTful web services that run on AWS
• Create high-performance data processing services that aggregate, transform, and filter the data that power our graphical reporting
• Build data integrations with third-party APIs that enable high-value customer experiences
• Lead the team’s technical direction from the early exploration of ambiguous ideas to developing a concrete roadmap for the team
• Bring together work across the organization into a cohesive, achievable plan that aligns with team and company goals
• Mentor other team members, developing their technical capabilities, and teaching them what you have learned about running services in production at scale
• Be part of a culture that values collaboration, inclusion, learning, and experimentation

We would love to hear from you if:

• You have significant experience building, deploying, and maintaining cloud-based distributed systems at scale
• You possess a strong breadth of experience with various data persistence layers and cloud orchestration including RDS and other AWS services
• You have experience maintaining and extending a large Python codebase, leading the team on standard methodologies
• You have proven experience mapping ambiguous requirements into clear plans that enable collaborators across the organization to take concrete steps alongside you
• You are adept at bridging your work with different audiences, by maintaining close partnerships and communication across diverse groups
• You have a proven track record of mentorship and technical team leadership and invest time in the growth of your colleagues
• You are comfortable communicating your point of view and are curious to learn from others’ points of view

Benefits

We are looking to build a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive engineering team. We have a number of outstanding benefits to support that.

• We are a fully distributed team. Without a central office, everyone’s on an equal footing wherever you’re based. Our positions are open to residents of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
• We offer flexible schedules and unlimited time off. Take vacations to recharge and work the schedule that makes sense for you. We’re about long-term growth and success, so that means working sustainably.
• We provide outstanding health care, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
• Paid time to volunteer at non-profits. If you volunteer enough, we’ll match your hours with donations.
• On demand mentoring with Bravely.

The salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $175,000 - $257,000. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. We will provide more information on our benefits and equity upon requests. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted up to or over 100% of the offered base salary (no cap). Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for > Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq.

Textio embraces diversity and seeks candidates who will contribute to a climate that supports persons of all identities, abilities and backgrounds. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply.

The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Textio will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation please contact the our recruiting coordinator at henry@textio.com. 

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Learn more about our philosophy, benefits, and team at https://textio.com/careers/.

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