Your Company:

As the Nonprofit 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" 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.

Principal Backend Engineer

Compensation Range: $145,000 - $165,000 base, and a bonus potential of up to 12%
Benefits: Health/dental/vision insurance, Summr and Wintr breaks, Paid vacation + Unlimited sick time

Please note that the anticipated start date for this role is expected to be in mid-May.

Your Work:

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

You will work under the direction of the Associate Director of Product Engineering 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:

• 6+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on SaaS products.

• Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.

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

Your Technical Skills:

• Working with both synchronous and asynchronous environments

• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, and Python

• Experience with Advanced ElasticSearch APIs

• Expertise in MongoDB Queries and Aggregations, as well as regular maintenance

• Expertise in AWS infrastructure and services (EC2 and EKS at a minimum)

• Experience with self-hosted Drone CI/CD

Your Qualities:

• Patience and determination to work through complex technical troubleshooting obstacles.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and manage relationships with internal and external partners.

• Constantly look to hone your craft and share what you learn with your colleagues

• Service-oriented team player who is here to achieve success for Feathr, The Product Team, and yourself

• Pragmatic and 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 during a critical outage.

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

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and 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:

• Plan and iterate over the product development lifecycle.

• Work alongside other Product Team engineers to design and develop features.

• Break down complex technical challenges into manageable