\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

Virtual Pricing Director is hiring a full-stack engineer to help implement our new legal tech web application - contributing across all aspects of our app, its data, architecture and deployment.\n\nWe’re a well-funded scaleup (no VC money) building the future of legal pricing, for small and large law firms alike. Our workflow and data management software means an end to overcharging clients, arbitrary pricing, and other bad practices that have existed for years.\n\nOur two directors are recognised world authorities in this domain, and bring a number of signed firms ready to use our software. We're off to a healthy start, busy preparing to deploy to one of the world's largest legal teams.\n\nThe work is varied, challenging, and we place equal emphasis on front and back-end. Because of the need to deliver scheduled features, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded firms, we’re looking for someone who relishes lots of hands-on work, contributing across the whole stack. \n\nOur app is powered by React, with Apollo Client for its GraphQL queries and mutations. It leverages Ant Design as the UI framework, upon which we build a mixture of UI components; some simple, some complex. On the back-end, we're using PostgreSQL as our RDS, TypeORM as our ORM, TypeGraphQL to define the API schema, and Apollo Server to deliver the GraphQL.\n\nBoth our front and back ends are coded in TypeScript. We believe in end-to-end testing and have therefore used Playwright to handle an automated E2E test script which runs before deployments.\n\nYou'll join us as we begin to roll out our product to some of the top law firms, and in time to help define, design and build the next two roadmapped modules, and to grow from there.\n\n\n**Upcoming projects across the team**\n\n* Building out a suite of new modules, from designing the underlying business logic and data models, to designing and implementing the application, front-ends and infrastructure\n* Standardising on common approaches that uphold modern enterprise architecture standards\n* New data visualisation and BI reporting solutions\n* Designing and implementing new APIs and data integration pipelines\n* Helping automate quality, CI/CD, and shaping a DevOps approach\n* Contributing to our development culture, methods, and tooling\n* Optionally; supporting dialogue with customers - discovery, requirements, technical solution design, implementation \n\n\n\n**We're looking for**\n\n* Someone with full-stack engineering abilities that span the application, front-end, data and infrastructure considerations\n* A good technical understanding of software engineering principles \n* Technology agnostic, and adept with TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL and GraphQL\n* An understanding of the principles of serverless applications, preferably based around AWS\n* Proficient with SQL, and web service design\n* An interest in upholding data security principles and helping choose and implement effective application architectures\n* Ability to unpack complex requirements, to uphold security of sensitive data and to conform to best practices\n* A collaborative, adaptable, user-centred approach\n\n\n**You may also bring - or like to gain - skills around**\n\nAnt Design | TypeORM | TypeGraphQL | Apollo Client | Apollo Server | Java | CircleCI | Heroku | Auth0 | AWS | TDD | Agile | Domain-driven design (DDD) | data modelling | integration patterns\n\n**Salary and benefits**\n\n* £70,000 - £90,000 - reviewed at six months - we're keeping an open mind\n* Share scheme for formative team members (once proven value to the business)\n* 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and a day for your birthday\n* Family-friendly and flexible culture - tell us what you need\n* Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications\n\n**About us**\n\nVirtual Pricing Director has developed groundbreaking software to assist law firms to understand and price their fees, be that £10k or £10m. We are the authority for legal pricing and our software has attracted the attention of the largest firms in numerous countries, with a number of partnerships and customers signed. \nWe're now strengthening our fully-remote development team - you'll be our fourth engineering colleague, with more to follow - offering a culture where you will work under your own initiative towards common goals. It's an opportunity to be a formative team member, joining a friendly flat-structured team that operates without ego, and to grow and improve together. \nVirtual Pricing Director is a privately-owned venture, founded by Burcher Jennings LLP and Validatum. https://www.virtualpricingdirector.com/\n\n**Location:** fully remote, within the UK only\n\n**Please note, we are only considering candidates that hold an established right to work in the UK**\n \n\nPlease mention the word **LOVES** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUK