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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Kansas City, Missouri | Remote-First

 Full-Time | Base Salary: $90,000 - $100,000

About backstitch

backstitch is a venture-backed HR technology company changing the way organizations communicate with their employees. Our software and strategic services help leading organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, create more connected, informed, and engaged workforces.

We're a small, collaborative company where developers have the opportunity to own meaningful work, influence technical decisions, work directly with company and technology leadership, and see the impact of what they build.

The Role

We're looking for a Software Developer with at least two years of full-time professional software development experience to join our Product team. You'll help develop, enhance, and scale the applications and services that power the backstitch platform. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll contribute throughout the development lifecycle, from technical scoping and architecture through implementation, testing, code review, deployment, and ongoing improvement.

We're specifically looking for someone with a strong software engineering and computer science foundation who has experience working on real production applications as part of a professional development team.

AI-assisted development is also an established part of how our engineering team works. Our developers use tools such as Codex and Claude Code to support ongoing development, code reviews, architecture exploration, debugging, and UI design. We're looking for someone who has already incorporated AI development tools into their workflow and understands how to critically evaluate and validate the solutions they produce.

How We Work

This is a remote-first position for candidates based in either Kansas or Missouri. You'll work from home and collaborate with the development team remotely throughout each sprint.

At the beginning of each quarter, our entire company comes together in Kansas City for approximately two days of company meetings, planning, and a team activity. backstitch pays for required travel and lodging for employees outside the Kansas City area to attend these quarterly company meetings.

New employees should also expect to spend approximately two days onsite in Kansas City as part of onboarding. backstitch will pay for required travel and lodging associated with onboarding.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, test, and ship features across our web and mobile applications.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, integrations, and customer-facing functionality.
• Work within an established production codebase and contribute improvements to its architecture, maintainability, performance, and scalability.
• Own development work from technical scoping through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Participate actively in peer code reviews and technical discussions.
• Use AI development tools such as Codex and Claude Code to accelerate development, investigate code, explore architecture, support code reviews, and prototype solutions.
• Critically evaluate AI-generated code and recommendations for correctness, maintainability, security, and architectural fit.
• Collaborate with Product, Customer Success, and other team members to translate customer and business needs into technical solutions.
• Participate in our Agile development process, including sprint planning and sprint kickoff meetings.
• Help continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and technical foundation.

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years of full-time professional software development experience working as part of an engineering or product development team and contributing to production software used by customers or end users. Internships, coursework, coding bootcamps, and personal projects can provide valuable experience, but alone do not satisfy the 2+ years of full-time professional software development experience required for this position.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field preferred, or equivalent depth of computer science knowledge demonstrated through substantial professional software engineering experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including software design, data structures, algorithms, application architecture, databases, APIs, and object-oriented development.
• Professional experience building and maintaining modern production web applications.
• Experience with backend development using languages such as Ruby or Python.
• Experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript development and frameworks such as React or Next.js.
• Experience working with relational databases, Git-based development workflows, automated testing, and peer code review.
• Ability to understand an established codebase, independently investigate technical problems, and develop maintainable solutions.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or comparable tools.
• Strong problem-solving, written communication, and collaboration skills.

Helpful Experience

Experience with any of the following is helpful but not required:

• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• AWS or other cloud infrastructure
• CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment
• Mobile application development
• Microservices and distributed application architecture
• SaaS product development
• Maintaining or modernizing established production applications

Benefits & Perks

• 100% company-paid employee medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous company stock options
• 9 paid company holidays per calendar year
• 60 hours of paid sick time per 12-month period
• Uncapped planned paid time off, subject to manager approval
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-first work environment
• Company-provided MacBook Pro and premium workstation setup
• Quarterly company meetings and team activities
• Direct access to company leadership

Work Authorization

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. backstitch is unable to provide current or future employment visa sponsorship for this position.

Join Us

We're looking for a developer who enjoys solving real customer problems, taking ownership of their work, and continuously improving how software gets built.

If you're excited about joining a product team where you'll have meaningful responsibility, work directly with technical leadership, and use modern AI development tools as part of your everyday engineering workflow, we'd like to hear from you.

backstitch is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome qualified applicants and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.