Your Company:

As the good marketing platform trusted by over 1,300 nonprofits, Feathr is purpose-built to help our customers unlock more results, time, and confidence.

Feathr's software marketing platform equips nonprofits with the tools they need to build purposeful connections with their community and grow impact with confidence.

We're working on building an amazing culture at Feathr, where amazing people (like you) can do their best work. If you're ready to grow and "help the helpers", all on a 4 day workweek, you've come to the right place.

But hey, don't take our word for it. Hear what current and former Flockers have to say about their experience.

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Compensation: 145k base + 10% company-wide bonus potential

Health, dental, vision, 4-day work week, Summr and Wintr breaks, paid vacation + Unlimited sick time.

Your Work:

Feathr’s SaaS platform is a critical component of the value we deliver to our clients. Feathr’s Sr. Software Engineers help us grow and maintain the technical components that allow us to meet the advertising, marketing, and web analytics needs of our diverse customer base. A Sr. Software Engineer at Feathr has a demonstrated interest and proficiency in web development.

You will work under the direction of a Director of Product on backend software development projects. Engineers at Feathr own their code from planning to maintenance to retirement - you will work with internal and external stakeholders to develop requirements and design technical solutions, collaborate with your engineering colleagues to implement those solutions, deploy and monitor your changes in production and address issues as they are identified.

Your Experience + Skills

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience

• 2+ years building distributed software

• Professional experience owning a process that included shipping a complicated piece of software to real users

Your Technical Skills

• Expertise with backend frameworks such as Flask or Django

• Understanding of modern CSS and HTML features

• Basic understanding of key data structures and algorithms

• Demonstrated focus on developing and maintaining security and compliance of enterprise data concerns

• Experience in writing automated unit tests for your code

• Planning and executing an integration with an API layer

• Knowledge of REST/CRUD API development

• Knowledge of best practices for securing enterprise cloud computing infrastructure through cloud vendor tools (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)

• Ability to maintain and scale containerized applications

• Ability to optimize data modeling for constantly growing business needs

• Ability to lead the conversation for a feature, solution, or choice

Your Qualities

• Curiosity and enthusiasm for all aspects of web development

• Service-oriented, team player who is here to achieve success for Feathr as well as themselves

• Pragmatic, customer oriented - you are building software to help customers, not for the sake of building software

• Comfortable adapting to quickly changing conditions. You might be working on one project but need to context switch to another unexpectedly in the case of a critical outage.

• Careful, detail oriented approach to building software - ask questions first, write code later.

• Comfortable breaking down technical concepts to non-technical audiences

• Your code solves immediate problems while building a sustainable system that lasts into the future

• Understand how to ingest and transform event streams from a variety of sources

Your Day

• Solve technical problems and document their solutions

• Plan and iterate over the product development lifecycle

• Work alongside other Product Team Engineers to design and develop feature

• Receive feedback on your code and features and iterate

• Collaborate with members of other departments to ensure technical solutions meet the business interests of the company

• Ensure the integrity, availability and confidentiality of Feathr’s data and operations.

Compensation:

Expected earnings are $145,000 base salary + potential 10% annual bonus.

In addition, you’ll receive fully covered health/dental/vision insurance, and other benefits like an educational budget, office food, and social events, not to mention an endless supply of job satisfaction!

Location:

After operating remotely throughout the pandemic for over a year, returning to the office briefly, then transitioning back to remote work, Feathr has made the exciting decision to officially move to a flexible work model. While Feathr is headquartered in Gainesville, FL, this opportunity is open to candidates located within the U.S. who are located in Eastern or Central timezones.

Feathr is headquartered in Gainesville, FL. We prioritize local Gainesville candidates, but are open to accommodating fully remote candidates in the Eastern and Central time zones. If you aren’t familiar, Gainesville is a hip mid-sized city with a talented, innovative population, incredible surrounding nature, and excellent quality of life.

Interview Process

As a part of our commitment to creating a fair, equitable, and positive interview experience for all candidates, we offer full transparency of our interview stages to give applicants an idea of the time and effort involved. Additionally, each interview stage consists of standardized questions and rubrics with a scoring system to ensure a consistent and fair assessment practice of all candidates.

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  Information Screening - The Talent Acquisition Specialist will invite candidates that move forward to a 15-minute virtual interview. This conversation will be focused on relevant work experience, compensation, role overview, and answering any questions the candidate has.

• Hiring Manager Interview - 1 hour virtual meeting with the Hiring Manager to answer role-specific questions.

• Work Assignment & Portfolio Review - Candidates will be given a work assignment prompt to complete a project that is relevant to the work they can expect in the role. The completion of the assignment should not take more than 90 minutes, and candidates are given multiple days to work on the project.

• Panel Interview - 1 hour interview with two to three key members of the team. This interview will dive deeper into the role, technical knowledge, and requirements of the position.

• Offer - The Talent Acquisition Specialist will reach out with the details of the offer to discuss with the candidate. After all the details of the informal offer are finalized, the candidate will receive their formal offer. At this time, we will run the background check.

  This is also the opportunity for candidates to provide any additional information or context if there are concerns surrounding their background check. Feathr believes candidates that have made it to this point in the interview process are truly talented individuals, and so we are open to dialoguing background screens before turning away candidates that have consistently excelled through the interview process.

Accommodations

If you require accommodations or assistance during the application or interview process due to a disability, please submit a request via this Candidate Reasonable Accommodation Request Form.

Benefits & Perks

We love our Flock and the work they do! But let’s be honest, life isn’t just about work. So we created a perks and benefits package that aims to help our team grow by including their wellness, families, passions, and personal time.

• 4 day workweek

• Full vision and dental, 99% health insurance

• Flexible Work Schedule

• Unlimited sick time for when you need to take care of your physical or mental health

• Vacation Time

• Extended Summr + Wintr Breaks

• Parental Leave

• Wellness Reimbursement Credit

• Home Office Stipend

• Professional Development Budget

• Team hangouts and events

You can read more about Feathr's decision to move to a 4-day workweek here.

Culture:

Feathr defines culture as the secret sauce that makes our flock members want to come to work everyday and do their best work. Like every company, we have an acronym that conveys the most important aspects of the culture we strive to have.

• Practicality: Am I incrementally improving something or delaying perfection?

• Ambition: Am I staying in my comfort zone as opposed to learning and communicating what is necessary to solve

• the real challenges?

• Clarity: Is my audience understanding what I’m communicating?

• Trust: Am I being sincere and trusting others to do the same?

• Service: Am I expecting more from myself than from others?

This acronym is only as useful as the integrity of the people who reference it and believe in it. Every person at Feathr will face challenges, the most important quality is a commitment to work through those challenges with self-awareness and honesty.

Feathr is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees. So, however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, if you think you’d drive value in this position, please apply.