Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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San Francisco, CA
Senior level
Fintech • Software
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll lead product development initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the delivery of complex software projects using your extensive experience in relevant technologies. You'll collaborate cross-functionally to translate business requirements into features while enhancing the software ecosystem with robust code.
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About Collective:

Collective is on a mission to redefine the way businesses-of-one work. Collective’s technology and team of trusted advisors enables our members to achieve financial independence by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services and access to a thriving community, all in one integrated platform.  We believe in empowering self-employed people to enjoy the same tax savings that big companies get. 

Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Techcrunch and more. We’re backed by General Catalyst, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary), QED Investors, Google’s Gradient Ventures, Expa and prominent investors who have financed and built iconic companies like YouTube, Substack, Twitch, Box, Hims, Instacart, Lyft, and more.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Collective team, you will make direct contributions to our codebase, lead and drive initiatives in product development, and help monitor and grow the team through technical mentoring and decision-making. Ideal candidates have experience as a senior-level contributor, guiding complex initiatives in both greenfield and brownfield environments with technologies relevant to our stack.

Responsibilities

  • Transform initial designs and technical blueprints into remarkable, end-to-end new product features that set industry standards.
  • Elevate our software ecosystem by consistently crafting top-tier, production-ready code that's not only robust but also a joy to maintain.
  • Collaborate with the team to make key architectural and technology adoption decisions that drive the product’s scalability.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior software engineers by lending technical guidance and solutions to blockers, performing code reviews, and developing recommended best practices in order to continually improve workflows and up-level the team
  • Own and implement substantial projects characterized by crucial and/or exceptionally intricate business demands by taking a direct and hands-on approach
  • Partner cross-functionally with a variety of internal teams such as Product, Design, and other engineering or business counterparts to translate high-level business requirements into products and features that our users will love 
  • Ensure timely delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible projects by participating in the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch

What we want you to bring

  • At least 5+ years experience working on a Software Engineering team with relevant technologies and methodologies.
  • Deep knowledge of or specialization in one or more relevant technologies in our stack:
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders across an organization.
  • Experience coordinating other Engineers through the delivery of a complex software project, including maintenance.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional partners and drive projects from specification to implementation.
  • A coaching and growth mindset open to getting and giving feedback and constantly improving yourself and others.
  • A strong sense of ownership of and responsibility for your work and that of the team.
  • An ability to be adaptable to an ever-changing and fast-paced environment.

Bonus Points

  • Growth expertise
  • Experience with an early stage or growth stage startup.

What we offer in return

Compensation Range: $200,000 - $214,500 USD annual base salary

  • A remote friendly environment
  • A diverse and collaborative team culture
  • Stock options package
  • 14 company holidays + Flex PTO
  • 401K
  • Employer paid Health, Vision and Dental Insurance
  • PC or Mac laptop + $750 Home office stipend
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Fertility benefits, up to $8k
  • Team events and virtual gatherings
  • $600 wellness bonus

 

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Collective, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our customers, and our community. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you’re good at what you do, come as you are. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Collective is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
229 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Collective is on a mission to redefine the way Businesses-of-One work. Collective is the first online concierge financial platform designed to give self-employed people the technology and team they need so they can focus on their passion, not their paperwork. Collective handles company formation, taxes, accounting, bookkeeping, and more.

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