\nAbout BLEN\nBLENers are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems. For over 20 years, we've been helping government agencies and businesses transform their digital experience. We bring fresh perspectives to every project, from modernizing legacy systems to building cloud-native applications to experimenting with technology that’s just around the corner. We value building long and enduring partnerships to solve complex challenges by putting humans at the center of all the experiences. Our team thrives on turning tricky problems into solutions that are practical, accessible and performant.\n\n\nAbout this position\nAs a Senior Software Developer II - Full Stack at BLEN, you will take on a highly strategic role in designing, architecting, and developing scalable, robust digital solutions. This role demands a combination of deep technical expertise in both front-end and back-end technologies and the ability to collaborate closely with tech leads and sometimes take on tech lead responsibilities. You will be expected to think strategically, mentor team members, and deliver high-impact solutions while embracing ownership and accountability. In addition, this position requires a strong background in cloud services, system architecture, AI toolings, and an eagerness to innovate by building prototypes and transforming proof of concepts into production-ready features\n\n\n\nWhat we would like from you\n* Technical Leadership and Strategy\n* Collaborate closely with the tech lead, taking responsibility for the system's architecture and development strategy\n* Step in as the acting Tech Lead when required, making key technical decisions that ensure alignment with overall product and business goals\n* Design and implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Work on building prototypes and proof of concepts that later become major production features\n\n\n\n* Software Development and Problem-Solving\n* Leverage extensive full-stack development experience to lead high-complexity, outcome-driven projects\n* Proactively diagnose and solve architectural and technical issues, driving quality improvements in existing systems\n* Work hands-on with modern tech stacks, including advanced usage of cloud platforms, ensuring scalable system designs\n* Actively contribute to the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions and applications\n\n\n\n* Mentorship and Team Development\n* Mentor and support junior engineers, focusing on transferring skills in system design, cloud services, and AI technologies\n* Provide technical guidance across teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation\n* Engage in technical interviews, assessing candidates' skills and cultural fit\n\n\n\n* Communication and Stakeholder Engagement\n* Present design documents, architecture diagrams, and technical solutions to clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams\n* Communicate technical strategies and developments effectively across the team and external partners\n\n\n\n* Process Improvement and Innovation\n* Drive improvements in software development processes and practices, with a focus on high performance and scalability\n* Champion best practices in system design, architecture, cloud services, and AI development\n* Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in AI and cloud computing, applying this knowledge to drive innovation in the organization\n\n\n\nBasic qualifications\n* Essential Requirements\n* 10+ years of engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing and developing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Extensive experience with full stack development using Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, Java or Ruby on Rails\n* Hands-on experience with Python and AI toolings, including familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and other modern AI frameworks\n* Strong expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, ensuring systems are scalable and maintainable in a cloud-native environment\n* Experience working with both relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases like Firestore, MongoDB, ensuring effective database design, optimization, and scalability\n* Hands-on experience integrating external APIs and third-party services into applications\n* Strong cloud services management and configuration skills with AWS, Azure, or GCP, leveraging these platforms for high availability, scalability, and security\n* Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git), and experience managing large, complex codebases\n* Robust problem-solving skills, particularly in diagnosing and resolving complex system issues related to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and application performance\n* \n\n* Preferred Skills and Experience\n* Prior experience leading engineering teams or acting as a Tech Lead\n* Experience building AI applications and their underlying infrastructure\n* Familiarity with DevOps tools and best practices\n* Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance\n\n\n\nRequirement\n* Must be a US Citizen or legal resident and able to work domestically\n* Must be located in the United States\n* Must be able to attain low-level security clearance\n\n\n\nPerks\n* Work from anywhere.\n* Competitive pay.\n* A contribution to your health benefit.\n* The chance to work on high-visibility projects and make a significant impact.\n\n\n\nGet to know us\n* We are a small, creative and highly technical team.\n* Our heroes are the scrappy folks that dare to dream and do great things. We love people that care more about doing the right thing than taking a shortcut.\n* We believe in finishing projects and floor our clients by how much we cared about their project.\n* We believe in integrity and because we're small, we are very selective of our partners and clients.\n* We do not use phrases like 'human resource' because you are NOT a resource. You are a team member and we will treat you like one.\n\n\n\nWhat you should expect from us\n* We will treat you fairly.\n* We give you space to grow both personally and professionally.\n* We will hear your ideas even when we disagree -- especially when we disagree.\n* We will be equitable with our success and be honest with our challenges.\n* We will always tell you the truth. Even when the truth is difficult.\n\n\n\nBLEN's hiring process\n* Resume Review: Our team evaluates your resume and online profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, etc.) to assess qualification fit.\n* Role-Specific Assessment (depending on role, due in 24 - 48 hours): Complete a take-home assignment or live coding session to demonstrate technical skills. For this role, this will be the assessment: https://github.com/blencorp/blen-fullstack-engineer-take-home\n* Hiring Manager Screen (30 mins): Dive deeper into your experience and the role with the hiring manager.\n* Virtual Interviews (2 rounds, 30-45 min each): Technical and competency-based interviews aligned with Blen's values, conducted via Google Meet.\n* Decision & Offer: Post-interview, the hiring team decides. If selected, your recruiter will extend an offer and assist with logistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n$135,000 - $170,000 a yearThe salary range represents the compensation we expect to offer candidates who can perform the core responsibilities with minimal additional training. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skill set, level of experience, and scope of responsibility. Our recruitment team is available to discuss your specific salary requirements and to provide more information about how we determine compensation. We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices and encourage open dialogue about our compensation structure throughout the application process. We look forward to learning more about your qualifications and how they align with our framework.\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities\nThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Docker, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Ruby and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, DC

\nThe opportunity\n\n\nWe’re looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to elevate Chord as the leader in customer data platforms. You’ll join a growing team that is building a platform to empower modern and omnichannel brands with smart technology, unique customer experiences, and insightful data.\n\n\nIn this role, you will be responsible for building Chord’s storefront data SDK, which captures customer behavior on merchant’s ecommerce stores and feeds it into our data warehouse. You will also have an opportunity to expand our data reporting and administration portal, where merchants view key performance metrics necessary to grow their revenue. \n\n\nThis is a perfect opportunity for engineers who thrive on big data problems; using data to generate insights that lead to actions. As an early-stage technology startup, you will have an opportunity to influence the culture and practices of the Engineering team. You will have an instrumental role in the design and implementation of our flagship products. If you’re curious, willing to learn, humble, and a good team player, you’ll be at home here at Chord. \n\n\nAs a Full-Stack Engineer, you will be a key member of the Engineering team and will report to the Engineering Manager. You will work in a group with senior and principal engineers responsible for the end-to-end development of Chord’s software products. You will also regularly collaborate with members of our Product and Customer Success teams to contribute to product design and support customers.\n\n\nChord offers advanced technology for modern brands that want amazing customer experiences and unified data without a large engineering team. We like to think of our product as the tech engine for high-velocity e-commerce growth. Backed by top investors, Chord is a SaaS company led by industry veterans, and we’re seeking smart, focused, creative talent to help us realize our vision. \n\n\nOur company is proudly remote-first, distributed across North America. \n\n\n\nAs a Full-Stack Engineer, you will:\n* Design, build, and grow our proprietary storefront data capture SDK.\n* Design, build, and grow our analytics and data management platform.\n* Support projects to launch customers onto Chord’s platforms.\n* Analyze and resolve technical issues that arise during production operations.\n* Contribute to technical design discussions and proposals that improve our team's culture, processes, or architecture.\n* Collaborate within a cross-functional project and operations team to execute product plans and achieve company goals.\n* Learn and practice Chord’s engineering principles through pairing sessions with developers.\n* Support the growth of engineers around you.\n* Contribute to tutorials and documentation that our customers will love using.\n\n\n\nTo be successful in this role, you’ll need: \n* A reputation for being inclusive, curious, entrepreneurial, and thoughtful.\n* Proficiency in Javascript and Typescript.\n* Experience working with Node and React/Redux-based frameworks.\n* Skill in authoring and maintaining GraphQL or RESTful-based APIs. \n* Expertise in writing tests with tools such as Jest, Cypress, and React Testing Library.\n* Experience publishing and maintaining JS libraries. \n* Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools like Github, Sentry, and CircleCI.\n\n\n\nBonus points for:\n* Proficiency in Ruby on Rails and common frameworks/integrations such as Solidus, RSpec, FactoryBot.\n* DevOps experience with Heroku, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS).\n* Experience creating metrics and monitors in Datadog.\n* Experience with static website libraries such as Gatsby and NextJS.\n* Skill in building integrations using middleware platforms such as Segment.\n* Background working with payment processors such as Stripe and Braintree.\n* Familiarity with modern CMS systems like Contentful or Sanity. \n* Hands-on experience with complex ecommerce experience is a big plus. \n\n\n\nWorking at Chord, you can expect: \n* An investment in your physical and mental well-being; we offer 100% employee Medical Benefits coverage, with 69% dependant coverage. \n* Flexible PTO; we encourage you to take the time you need to be your best self at work. \n* An onboarding package and annual work from home stipend to ensure you have everything you need to be successful while working remote. \n* Generous Parental Leave with customizable transition back to work program.\n* To make an impact! We’re an early-stage company, which means there is space to champion ideas, and create and lead initiatives at any level in the Organization. \n* The benefits of working from home, with opportunities to spend quality time with the team at Chord in-person events throughout the year.\n\n\n\n\n$145,000 - $170,500 a yearThis is the expected salary range for US-based employment. \nThis is a full-time, salaried position that includes Equity. We set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies in our market. This salary range represents the full salary range for the position. The starting base pay offered may vary depending on factors including experience, expertise, market demands, and internal parity. \n\nAbout your application and the interview process\n\n\nChord is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you’re unsure about your qualifications for this position, we still encourage you to apply. \n\n\nOur interview process for the role begins with an exploratory conversation with the Hiring Manager. After that, we’ll invite you to a Zoom session with a range of stakeholders from across our organization. We aim to get to know you and allow you to learn more about our team and product while being respectful of your time. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, React, GraphQL, Testing, DevOps, JavaScript, Node, Ruby, API, Senior, Engineer and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York, New York

\nThis is a remote position.\n\nAd Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our team of experts from across the commercial industry and government brings the modern skills necessary to help agencies transform public services into digital services. Our work enables agencies to meet the needs of their users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government\n\nAs part of our team you will work with a small team of designers and engineers to design, develop, and deliver web-based applications and services. You'll work in collaboration with our government partners to better understand and translate policy and business requirements into features, user stories, automated tests, and working code. Your work will impact the lives of millions of Americans.\n\nStaff Software Engineers generally lead cross-functional, technical teams of 3 to 6 engineers and are the individuals primarily responsible for ensuring successful delivery for their team. They generally establish high levels of trust and operate with significant autonomy. This position is reserved for individuals with significant development and leadership experience. Staff Software Engineers are accountable for the code and systems they own, lead the resolution of major issues effectively and direct the evaluation of tradeoffs between implementation complexity and other costs. They have expert-level capabilities in at least one major technology stack.\n\nRequirements\n\n\nOur Federal contracts require that you be a U.S. Citizen to be eligible for employment.\n\nAll work must be conducted within the U.S.\n\nAs a government contractor, all hires may be required to meet additional pre-employment contingencies to the extent required by applicable law, at the time of hire or any time thereafter\n\nSome Federal contracts require a degree in computer science or additional years of experience as a substitute\n\nOur technical screening involves completing our homework assignments exclusively - we do not do any form of whiteboarding in our process\n\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\n\nEnsuring effective engineering delivery on their program or team.\n\nContributing to and delivering performance reviews with direct reports.\n\nDeveloping and presenting monthly reports based on program reporting requirements.\n\nShaping the technical direction of their program. \n\nManaging the technical relationship with the client, and influencing their technical decision-making. \n\nDemonstrating a deep awareness of how changes they make interact with all components in a broader system. This includes technologies for frontend, backend, infrastructure, usability, and design, as well as varying development, testing, and release methodologies within an organization.\n\nPlanning and executing on roadmaps for new projects without explicit guidance and direction from technical supervisors. \n\nActively driving conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders, and representing the engineering practice while advocating for the best technical solutions and communicating tradeoffs. Ultimately providing significant positive impact to a program’s roadmap.\n\nInfluencing the customer toward successful outcomes by establishing trust through reliable and successful execution and demonstrated competency.\n\nProviding vision for other engineers within their area of influence, and advocating for that vision while taking into account client requirements. \n\nPrioritizing high-impact work and delivering on that work over non-critical tasks.  \n\nPeriodically traveling to the client site to work with and present to partners and stakeholders as necessary. \n\nElaborating and evolving on complex and ambiguous products to uncover new constraints and opportunities.\n\nAssigning tasks to and monitor the progress of task completion for team members.\n\nProviding mentorship and guidance to team members through practice, code review, presentations, and architecture. This may include, but isn’t limited to game day design and execution.\n\nProviding general career development advice to team members, and staying up to date on career options and new opportunities within the company that may be beneficial for the growth of those engineers.\n\nReducing ambiguity in the systems they work with, including additional documentation, refactoring, and testing. \n\nEffectively communicate on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that they’ve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications. \n\nInforming program leadership of the health of your team and contributing to evaluation of team members, written or otherwise\n\nActively contributing code and performing code review on your applications as an engineer. \n\nParticipating in technical depth interviews with new candidates\n\nConducting regular 1:1 meetings and performance reviews with direct reports; providing general career development advice to team members based on their knowledge of company policy and process\n\nCreating opportunities for improving not just their immediate area, but similar areas in other programs across the company. \n\nEnsure that all systems operate smoothly and, in coordination with QA Manager, align with ISO and CMMI quality standards.\n\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n\n\n* Minimum 8 years of experience in software design and development, architecture, operations\n\nBachelor of Science in Technology or Engineering\n\n* 8+ years of experience utilizing DevOps tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation\n\n* 5+ years of experience building optimized docker containers\n\n* 5+ year of experience programming in a high level language, such as Ruby or Python\n\n* 5+ year of experience writing Groovy pipeline scripts for Jenkins\n\n* Experience collaborating with other teams, adopting their goals as your own\n\n* Programming in a major open source language or framework, such as Ruby, Python/Django, Go, JavaScript/React, or Java\n\n* Familiarity with static analysis tools and other CI tools used for security and compliance\n\n* Proficient spelling, grammar, and communication skills\n\n* Experience with Amazon Web Services, in particular ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, IAM, EC2, and S3\n\n* Understanding of basic networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, UDP, routing, load balancing, SSH\n\n* Experience and understanding of one or more different agile methodologies, including Scrum, XP, or SAFe.\n\n* A desire to expand your skills and gain experience with new tooling as needed\n\n* Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S now and in the future without sponsorship\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\nCompany-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance\n\nVanguard 401K Plan\n\nUnlimited Vacation\n\nContinuing Education/Annual Conference Attendance Stipend\n\n\n\n\nAd Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.\n\nIn support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility . The range of starting pay for this role is $128,183 - $169,065 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Amazon, Groovy, Ruby and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nOklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States