Senior or Staff Software Engineer

Full-time, remote only, USA. $145-190K salary. Equity with 4-year vesting.

Love building a product that improves a user’s life so much that they can’t help but share it with their peers?

Boost My School is looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join our team passionate about helping schools set all their students up for success.

Why work at Boost My School?

1. Be proud of your impact helping schools and students

• Boost is trusted by 100+ K-12 and higher ed customers to bring in $50M a year from 60,000 families and donors
• Every Boost team member has clear accountability over results that directly impact the success of our company and customers
• Our business model is designed so that we succeed only when our customers succeed
• You’re given a monthly budget to donate to schools of your choice on Boost

2. Work with thoughtful teammates building a champion company together

• Openly view all company communication outside of personal matters - we mostly communicate over Slack public channels and Notion public wikis
• Openly view company, team, and individual performance metrics
• Use our weekly No Meetings Day to get uninterrupted work done (or to do your laundry while you work)
• Take on tasks in which you have the final say over your manager or the CEO
• Receive regular professional development through weekly 1-on-1s and quarterly career check-ins
• Get to know your remote teammates at our annual week-long in-person retreats and our optional coworking weeks

3. Join a culture that wants you to be your best self at work and outside of work

• Internal meetings are scheduled during our core working hours (12pm to 4pm ET) so you have more flexibility over your time
• Take care of errands or pick up your kids as long as you communicate accountability over the things you’re responsible for
• Our company calendar is aligned with the school year - we have 15 company days off across major holidays and Summer Fridays
• Outside of the 15 company days off, we suggest taking an additional 10 to 15 days off, and require taking 1 week of continuous time off per calendar year
• Company covers medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses through QSEHRA ($512/mo for individuals, up to $1,037/mo for those with families)
• A company laptop will be shipped to you before your first day
• Use your remote working stipend ($200/mo) for your internet bill, to buy lunch, or for professional development

Responsibilities

• Join a fast-moving environment - you’ll deploy to production multiple times on your first week
• Be responsible for and implement major architecture decisions and initiatives
• Make major contributions across the entire stack: infrastructure, frontend, backend, analytics, internal tools
• Play a role in selecting future technologies - our stack is an isomorphic React/Relay web app that talks to a Rails GraphQL API
• Work with teammates that care about writing maintainable code - we practice continuous deployment, incremental pull requests, strict linting, type checking, and strong test coverage
• Opportunity to grow with the company into a manager, if you consistently achieve targets and you exhibit the habits needed to succeed in the added responsibilities
• Work directly with and report to our CEO & Founder, who coded the first version of the product
• Support your teammates and fill in gaps as needed since we are a small team

About you

• You build champion habits: You set yourself up to be a champion by continuously improving what you do day-to-day
• You overcommunicate: You go above and beyond to ensure you’re on the same page with your teammates
• You embrace ownership: You demonstrate to the team that you’re fully accountable for the results of your actions
• You use radical candor: You proactively use radical candor so that your teammates trust you to deliver critical feedback
• You move fast with intention: You make decisions and execute quickly so that you both succeed and learn faster
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, ideally at a B2B SaaS company
• Bonus: You’re familiar with the school fundraising industry - e.g. you helped raise money for your school or you know what “advancement” means

If you want to apply for this position

Please email [email protected] with:

• your LinkedIn or resume
• why you would excel in this position at Boost My School
• short explanation of code that you’re proud of