Staff Full Stack Engineer - Data

Submittable is a growing social impact platform used by thousands of companies, governments, and philanthropic organizations to manage their social impact programs and maximize their impact. In 2023 alone, we helped organizations worldwide run over 31,000 programs and collected nearly 3.2 million applications, resulting in $1.3 billion of funds distributed through our product on behalf of our clients. We are proud to partner with customers in accelerating mission-driven work in top causes, including Equity & Social Justice, Children & Education, Creative & Arts, Health/Wellness, Economic Justice & Opportunity, and the Environment & Climate.

Do inventions inspire you? Is problem-solving through teamwork in your DNA? At Submittable, we build software that enables our customers to drive positive social change around the globe. This is an amazing opportunity to join a growing SaaS company focused on building a product that is designed to help.   

As a Staff Full Stack Engineer on our data team, your expertise will be critical to helping us define, implement and improve the tools and features of our data and reporting infrastructure which crosses teams, products, and FE/BE stacks. You will lead the charge in solving challenging software problems with high visible risk, roadblocks, and occasionally invisible risks while driving complex tech designs with cross-service dependencies. Within and across teams, your voice will be critical to improving processes, raising standards, and helping technical and non-technical stakeholders decide whether to adopt new technologies.

If you are ready for a new career adventure at an exciting SaaS company, we would love to hear from you! 

This full-time role reports to our Director of Science following a hybrid schedule. Staff are expected to be willing to work from one of our engineering offices in Bellevue, WA, or Missoula, MT. 

How You’ll Make an Impact:

As a leading member of our Data Team, you will build accessible, scalable, and global software that enables customers and Submittable to gain insights, view comprehensive reports, save time within workflows by leveraging high-powered data tools, and provide critical input to our data governance policies and processes. This role requires deep integration with our Product, Project Management, and Design teams to ensure success and will work closely with our talented team of backend, frontend, analytics, and machine learning engineers as you launch innovative new data features, products and infrastructure. Recent projects for the data team include a customer-facing dashboard portal and data export tools that enable our customers to use data to manage their programs.

• As an expert on our software and infrastructure supporting data features and products, you’ll identify improvements to our existing systems (developer experience, infrastructure architecture, and core platform), while focusing on scalability and stability.
• You will play a central role in defining solutions in the early stages of research and developing complex technical designs with cross-team and cross-service dependencies. You will also work on data initiatives that cross the BE and FE stacks. 
• Collaborate with engineering leadership on internal engineering initiatives, deliver the engineering roadmap, burn down tech debt, and increase the productivity and effectiveness of the engineering team.
• Function as a senior technical resource on the data engineering team while collaborating with our product and design teams to deliver innovative data features and products. 
• Leverage your ability to concisely convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, providing cost/benefit analyses and making recommendations.
• Mentor software engineers and review code/PRs to ensure that our software is improving in quality. Provide feedback through coaching to ICs about their code.
• Drive technical debt reduction through a cycle of continuous improvement and iterative change.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure infrastructure, security, and test efforts meet planned feature work.

Skills & Experience We Hope You Bring:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience spanning a variety of software systems
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operation.
• Demonstrated communication skills and experience in partnering with other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, explain software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Proven experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills and develop