Senior Software Engineer

Carina is a not-for-profit technology organization founded in 2016 that operates an online home care "matching" system. The system matches consumers who need home care services with certified home care workers who are seeking work. Carina's platform has successfully matched thousands of home care providers and home care seekers, resulting in over 1,000,000 hours of in-home care delivered. These connections help care seekers stay safely in their homes with a higher quality of life and promote better health outcomes.

Carina is entering a new growth phase, entering new geographic markets in-home care and childcare where qualified caregivers are matched with care seekers via a new Carina platform. We’re growing Carina with a small team of experts in product design, cloud engineering, product management, partnering with marketing and customer service experts, and project managers that manage the go-to-market.

Position Details

Location: Headquartered in Downtown Seattle, remote work possible from CA, NM, NY, WA.

Work Schedule: Our typical business hours are 8:30-5:00 Monday-Friday.

Travel Requirements: Up to 10%

Category: Full-Time, FLSA Exempt, Regular

Physical Requirements: Must be able to sit and stand for long periods of the day.

Position SummaryWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the evolution of our platform experience, providing technical expertise to better service home care workers, consumers, and other users as Carina grows in Washington State and beyond. You Will:

• Collaborate with Marketing, PM, UX, partners and customers directly to understand the customer journey and to measure their success.
• Collaborate with Marketing, PM, UX on artefacts to capture decisions, justifications, and implementation history.
• Engineer rapid prototypes to collaborate with UX on experiments for defining what’s needed to achieve customer success.
• Collaborate with Marketing, PM, UX on defining user story requirements; then engineering implementation for product sprints, epics.
• Deliver user stories coherently bundled into product releases aligned with business milestones (customer pilots, industry events).
• Setup and manage cloud infrastructure; Dev -> Test -> Production environments including external dependencies integration.
• Setup automated build and test pipelines; including automated success and exception reporting.
• Engineer secure, robust, efficient solutions to deliver user stories and supporting infrastructure.
• Engineer and perform unit and integration testing for all code commits.
• Initiate code reviews for all code commits; with merges dependent on engineer peer/team review.
• Deploy approved (code) pull requests to a test environment for team review; deploy to production environment for critical bug fixes.
• Measure and analyze the performance of all code in a production environment. Own efficiency and optimization tuning.
• Align with customer success metrics.
• Contribute to engineering workshops to improve the quality, scalability of solutions; to deepen the knowledge of 'the stack' the engineering team manages.
• Collaborate in all team meetings; be ready to challenge assumptions and offer alternatives to breakthrough obstacles.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.

You Have:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field is required.
• 8+ years of industry experience contributing to a commercial app, platform, or service.
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, demonstrating increasing responsibility and leadership.
• An aptitude for a fast-changing, ambiguous environment.
• Additional skills and experience:
  • Programming Languages Java, Kotlin
  • Advanced knowledge of JavaScript: ReactJS, NodeJS, and proficiency in other modern frameworks and web stacks.
  • Experience with microservices architecture and service-oriented design.
  • Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, with the ability to design and implement scalable and resilient solutions.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as code in cloud environments.
  • In-depth understanding of database design and optimization, including experience with relational databases like Postgres.
  • Proficiency in additional programming languages, such as Python.
  • Strong expertise with CI/CD practices and tools such as Git and GitHub Actions.
  • Proficiency with virtualization technologies like Docker and familiarity with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
  • Proven ability to lead large technical initiatives and mentor junior team members.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
  • Demonstrated success in optimizing and improving the performance of production systems.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

It Would Be Nice If You Have:

• Nonprofit experience a plus

Salary Range:

• $104,963 to $140,418

Benefits

• Fully Paid Medical, Dental and Vision;
• 18 days PTO, 15 Sick days, 10 holidays, 1 floating holiday, 2 personal days and 1 week Winter Break;
• Defined Benefit Pension Plan and 401(k) options;
• Fitness, cell phone, internet and furniture stipends.

Carina provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.