Software Engineer, Feature Team

About the role

We are looking for a versatile generalist who thrives on a high degree of personal responsibility. You want to be involved in the whole process, all the way from requirements through implementation and deployment, and you enjoy working across the entire application instead of being stuck in a silo.

Responsibilities

• Dive into our UI, JS and back end to make investment portfolio management scalable and easy to use.
• Work closely with our product management team and our users to gather requirements and design solutions that make this happen.
• Quickly wrap your head around complex user workflows.
• Understand computing principles, strong analytical skills and good technical intuition.
• Communicate issues, potential solutions and tradeoffs in ways that make sense to a variety of stakeholders.
• Build internal tools or pick up new skills to achieve our goals.

Requirements

• 2-6+ years of experience building production web applications.
• Experience building interactive web applications using Javascript.
• Strong understanding of computing fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks with demonstrated ability to learn our stack.
• Demonstrated ability to understand user workflows and user experience.
• Competence working in a Linux environment: familiarity with common command-line utilities and Unix process management; comfortable with bash scripting.

Qualifications

• Strong individual contributor who can gather requirements, propose a variety of solutions and follow through with implementation.
• Able to dive into unfamiliar codebases and quickly build up working knowledge of how multiple components interact.
• Enjoy learning domain and application logic.
• Communicative and self-organizing.
• Habit of effectively gaining new skills to suit the task.
• Constantly improving own process to make oneself more effective.

Skills

• Software engineering as a discipline.
• Use AI where it reduces toil but not where it reduces understanding.
• Own and be able to explain every line of code they ship.

Benefits

We have more things to do than people to do them; if you are proactive, competent and reliable you can earn responsibility very quickly and help shape the way the department functions.

Pay

$135,000 - $150,000/year depending on relevant experience

Schedule

We prefer candidates who are willing to work in a hybrid environment. Candidates in the Boston area should expect to work in-office 2 days/week for the first 6 months. Candidates outside the Boston area should expect to travel to Boston for 1 week at a time several times in the first six months and 3x per year thereafter.

Visa Sponsorship

Smartleaf is unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future. This includes, but is not limited to, H-1B, F-1 (including OPT/CPT), J-1, or any other employment-based immigration or work authorization sponsorship. Candidates must have current and ongoing authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• Javascript (Stimulus)
• React
• PostgreSQL
• Debian Linux
• Open source coding agents + local LLMs