Staff Software Engineer

About the position

As a Staff Software Engineer at Boundless, you’ll serve as a technical lead across key initiatives, shaping architecture and engineering best practices while delivering meaningful product experiences for immigrants and their families. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex, high-impact problems, and guide other engineers in making thoughtful technical decisions. You will also help scale the engineering organization by actively contributing to hiring, onboarding, and shaping a collaborative, inclusive culture.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead across key initiatives
• Shape architecture and engineering best practices
• Deliver meaningful product experiences for immigrants and their families
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex problems
• Guide other engineers in making thoughtful technical decisions
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding processes
• Help scale the engineering organization
• Take technical ownership of a major product or service area
• Drive architectural decisions and collaborate with other tech leads
• Translate ambiguous problems into clearly defined technical solutions
• Lead technical discovery and planning for cross-team initiatives
• Define and uphold engineering standards
• Participate in hiring processes to attract and assess top engineering talent
• Lead complex, multi-sprint efforts
• Propose and execute on structural improvements to the codebase
• Mentor engineers and support their growth
• Foster an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software development
• Strong background in backend systems and product-driven engineering
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering scalable architecture in production environments
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend framework (Rails preferred)
• Working knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks
• Comfortable working across the stack and owning features end-to-end
• Deep commitment to code quality, reliability, and thoughtful testing practices
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and leading by influence
• Collaborative and effective communicator, especially when navigating ambiguity
• Passionate about building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise in Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React/Typescript
• Solid understanding of security practices

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401K match
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Flexible spending accounts
• Pet insurance discounts
• Cell phone plan discounts