Senior/Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Binti builds software for state and county government agencies, focusing on reinventing social services. We started in child welfare, with the mission of helping every child have a safe, loving, and stable family. To date, we’ve helped approve more than 100,000 families to foster or adopt, and we support over 46% of the nation’s child welfare system. We have expanded our product offerings in child welfare, moving more to the root of the problem, helping families stay together and avoid separation, and are now expanding horizontally across other areas in social services.

Binti is a for-profit, mission-driven software company based in San Francisco, CA. Investors include Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, and others. We’re a team of ~90 people and growing quickly. We care about creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome and can bring their full self to work. We have a huge, ambitious vision to rewire government to be more effective in expanding opportunities for people around the world, and we are looking for mission-driven, high-empathy, high-performance, and low-ego team members to join us on our exciting journey towards that vision.

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

We're looking for product oriented engineers who are skilled at leveraging AI both in their coding and in the products they build, and who are passionate about using technology to drive positive impact. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to take significant ownership of technical projects that will drive the success of the overall business. Strong candidates bring deep product and technical acumen, combined with the ability to move fast.

LOCATION

Binti is headquartered in San Francisco, California and this role would be expected to be in-person (in-person office days are Mondays and Thursdays across the company). Much of our team is local to the San Francisco Bay Area and works via a hybrid setup – in-person from the office some days and remote otherwise. Satellite offices, like Seattle, Washington, set their own in-office days and hybrid policies, but in general employees are encouraged to join the leadership team on the days when they will be in the office for collaboration and team cohesion.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead architecture discussions during feature development to ensure that projects are built in a sound, reliable, performant way

• Improve user experiences that software engineers and engineering teams depend on during their day-to-day workflow

• Full Stack coding, 60% back end and 40% front end

• Mentor other engineers on best practices for software engineering

• Optimize the performance of components for both latency and throughput

• Monitor all of the above in a scalable way

• Guide incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts

• Collaborate with Product Management to scope and execute product features while maintaining Binti’s values.

• Focus on the longevity of the codebase - notice and advocate for patterns that allow code to be flexible, scalable, and approachable to other engineers

• Help our team move quickly and learn while maintaining a welcoming and supportive culture

• Push our product so it continues to be a beautiful, yet intuitive and accessible interface for users from all walks of life

• Champion security and privacy, including looking for ways to make it easier to safeguard HIPAA compliance for sensitive data and incorporate security best practices

SAMPLE PROJECTS

• Spearhead development of new product areas like child intake and community crisis response

• Evolve configurable platform features like scheduling or application requirements into a reusable, performant layer that works for different workflows across the country

• Architect engineering design for storing of configurable relationships between humans, beyond biological relationships

• Transfer applications between agencies, accounting for variable workflow setups and agency-configured permissions

WHO YOU ARE

• Experience leading and coordinating large infrastructural and architectural projects and rollouts

• Comfort with a startup mindset, taking initiative, and comfort with MVP

• Knowledge and ability to effectively project manage

• Excitement to leverage modern tools and AI to drive greater efficiency and higher quality output

• Ability to architect, build and maintain configurable systems that unlock better workflows in foster care

• Can collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, technical account management, policy, and more

• Demonstrated ability to work across engineering teams on projects that elevate not just our own systems and designs, but those of other teams as well

• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation

• Excitement to jump into our Ruby on Rails and React architecture and write foundational and expansive features. Prior experience with product development on a web application is strongly favored. Ruby, Rails, React or GraphQL experience is a plus.

• Experience with configurable enterprise software, or better yet government-facing software is a strong positive.

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU

• A self-motivated, independent engineer who enjoys owning projects from inception to completion

• Solid programming foundations and experience full stack

• End-to-end experience building, shipping, and maintaining products

• Having a growth mindset, having a sense of urgency, and being comfortable with challenging the status quo

• Excited to level up themselves and bring everyone else along for the ride – leveraging modern tools and AI to do so

• Track record of breaking through walls on your way to success

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Ruby skills/experience on lock, Rails, React, and/or GraphQL experience a plus

• Curiosity, experience, and excellent judgment are also a plus

BENEFITS & PERKS

• An above-market compensation package (salary + equity)

• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance - 99% of insurance premiums covered for you + your dependents

• Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend

• 13 paid holidays; 11 federally observed holidays (including Juneteenth), plus Election Day and the day after Thanksgiving

• 16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for the arrival of a newborn or newly placed infant

• Sick/mental health time separate from vacation days (accrue up to a cap of 160 hours)

• 4 weeks of sabbatical after 4 years of service at the company

• 401k, Commuter benefits, FSA, and DCSA with administration paid for

• $5,000 annual bonus for employees who volunteer as a CASA (court-appointed special advocates)

• $2,500 annual reimbursement for ongoing learning and development, with opportunities to attend trainings/conferences, on-site speaker series, and lunch and learns

• $300 reimbursement for initial office setup

• $50 a month effective work reimbursement to cover internet, electricity, office setup costs, or lunch/snacks with coworkers

• Paid jury duty

At Binti, we celebrate having a diverse team and believe our differences make us stronger. Binti is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome all qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.