Staff Software Engineer

Posted 2 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
Senior level
Big Data • Machine Learning • Mobile
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will collaborate with engineers, design teams, and product owners to develop new features that enhance the experience of small business customers. Your responsibilities include coding, delivering new functionality, and leading the team in an agile environment, while ensuring high-quality output and using data-driven decision-making.
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Who We Are

We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance. 

We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business.  

If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place.

The Role

In this role, you will work closely with engineers, product owners, marketing, and designers to own new product features and enhancements that change the lives of our small business customers.  You’ll be at the forefront of our customer’s experience directly responsible for the entire acquisition ecosystem primarily consisting of our WordPress landing page.  This includes rapid experimentation, application performance and development, and leadership within the team.

This position will report to Sr. Director of Engineering and is a remote role.

Responsibilities

  • Create high-quality, predictable, observable code and deliver it to production
  • Own the delivery of new features by working iteratively with the design, engineers, marketing, and product owners to define and deliver new functionality
  • Work in an agile, data-driven environment and have true ownership of the features you work on, from gathering requirements to delivering results
  • Use data-driven decision-making to improve your code (logs, usage analytics, monitoring)
  • Serve as a technical leader and mentor for the engineering team, providing guidance and support to less experienced developers
  • Contribute to knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team and across the organization

Qualifications

  • At least 7 years of WordPress software development experience (Guttenberg editor, Advanced Custom Fields)
  • Experience shipping web-based products, working with designers and product owners to develop and deliver workflows and libraries
  • Extensive experience with operations, API development, and modern service-oriented architecture
  • Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to articulate your decisions, whiteboard new solutions, present ideas concisely, and defend your ideas
  • Excited about working with designers to create an amazing user experience
  • Curious and comfortable learning new things and diving in where needed
  • Familiarity with JavaScript, React, Python is a plus
  • Technology stack: Wordpress, Python & Django, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes, Go, JavaScript (ES 6+), React 16.8+, Redux, Apollo GraphQL, Node.js 12+, Express, Fastify

Bonus Qualifications

  • Tugboat
  • Rank Math SEO Pro
  • Redis
  • WP Control

Remote Culture. A great company culture leads to happy employees, and happy employees lead to happy customers. We provide our employees with good salaries, benefits, equity, and interesting challenges that have a positive impact. 

Let’s stay connected! We believe in staying connected, and we have a weekly “All Hands” meeting every week. We also have a social committee that hosts frequent events. We’ve held a virtual talent show, costume competitions, monthly lunch and learn series, Hackathons and more! 

Benefits.  The company offers various benefits to employees and their dependents, including medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance, as well as parental and military leave. Other benefits include an employee assistance program, 401k + match, annual bonus, pet insurance, and RSUs. Paid parking* and 10 paid holidays are also provided. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We believe in diversity, equity & inclusion. At ZenBusiness, every voice counts no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, location, or background. We celebrate the diversity of our teams, knowing that our products, services, and customers thrive best when we lean into and celebrate our differences.

Please check out our careers' page to learn more about our culture, benefits, and open opportunities.

*applicable to in-office employees

Top Skills

Go
JavaScript
Python
The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
357 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

ZenBusiness gives customers the power and support to scale their business. ZenBusiness has helped over 300,000 businesses get up and running by providing the tools and resources needed for success.

ZenBusiness is a trusted partner that gives entrepreneurs the power and support to scale their business. We use technology and automation to provide fast and low-cost services, expert support, and a personalized dashboard that puts everything entrepreneurs need at their fingertips.

Zenbusiness is the only business formation partner in the Small Business Digital Alliance initiative ("SBDA"), a national initiative of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) alongside such companies as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. While continuing our efforts to support new entrepreneurs on their journey to grow an LLC in 2022, ZenBusiness offers a $5K Grant Program. This allows small business owners to fund their business and passion.

Becoming an entrepreneur is stressful and intimidating, especially for underserved communities. ZenBusiness is dedicated to supporting such businesses by partnering with nonprofits and organizations with a passion for change. This includes work with the Lemonade Day, Latinitas, Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce, Inmates to Entrepreneurs, Kiva, Synergies Work assisting entrepreneurs with disabilities, and more. As a company, we support the volunteer work Zenbusiness employees are passionate about by offering volunteering time and opportunities in their communities.

Zenbusiness was rated by Forbes as one of the “Best LLC Services” in the country for the second year in a row with an outstanding 4.9 rating.

At ZenBusiness we strive to make the workplace a positive aspect of all of our employees' lives, by offering robust medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and vision insurances, competitive salaries, PTO, and generous parental leave.

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