Stride is the first portable benefits platform specifically designed for the nearly 60 million American independent workers who do not receive employer-based benefits. The Stride platform offers access to insurance — health, dental, vision, life and other supplemental insurance — as well as financial tools to track income, mileage and other deductible expenses to manage their tax obligations, all via a single app. Since launching in 2014, Stride has helped more than 4.4 million workers save more than $8 billion on their taxes and monthly health insurance premiums.
Stride partners with over 100 leading companies like Uber, Amazon, DoorDash, and Instacart to provide their independent workers with access to our benefits platform. The company is backed by $96 million in capital from Venrock, New Enterprise Associates, Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital Partners, Mastercard, Allstate and King River.
The Role: Senior Software Engineer, II, Full-Stack (2 Openings Across Different Teams)
Cash compensation range: $171,000 - $186,000 USD annually + equity
At Stride, we're growing our Engineering team and hiring two Senior Software Engineers to join us in advancing our mission to make benefits accessible and affordable for all. This is a unique opportunity to join one of two critical teams—Consumer or Platform/SaaS—both of which play a key role in building products that support millions of individuals and our trusted partners.
While each role is embedded in a distinct product area, both share a core set of responsibilities and values: strong full-stack development, scalable infrastructure, and a commitment to security, quality, and cross-functional collaboration.
About the Teams:
- Consumer Team: This team focuses on enhancing Stride’s core consumer-facing experience and insurance product suite. You’ll help drive the user journey for individuals navigating their benefits and coverage options. Your work will directly impact the experience of independent workers as they sign up for and manage their healthcare and insurance needs.
- Platform/SaaS Team: This team owns Stride’s engineering platform and partner-facing SaaS tools, building the systems and infrastructure that power our agent, broker, and platform integrations. Your work will enable partners to efficiently manage their users and will directly contribute to the scalability and success of our B2B offerings.
What You’ll Do (across both teams):
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-quality full-stack applications using Node.js, React, and modern web technologies.
- Lead the development of both backend and frontend features with attention to performance, accessibility, and reusability.
- Establish and promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, UX, QA, and Engineering leadership to define goals, ship features, and support iterative improvement.
- Take ownership of core areas of the codebase, infrastructure, and deployment processes using infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Mentor and coach junior engineers to help grow the team's skills and capabilities
- Partner with DevOps and Security teams to ensure compliance and best practices in security and reliability.
Experience & Qualifications:
We recognize that some groups are less likely to apply to a role if they don’t meet 100% of the listed qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet a majority of the qualifications and this role is aligned with your career trajectory.
When reviewing resumes we’ll be looking to see that you have:
- Senior-level experience (strong leadership, strategic thinking, expert problem-solving, effective communication, and the ability to mentor others while driving high-impact results and navigating complex challenges.) in full-stack web development, typically 7+ years.
- Developed proficiency due to extended use of TypeScript, JavaScript, and a JavaScript framework (React preferred).
- Experience with RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and package dependencies management (NPM/Yarn).
- Experience with secure coding practices and data security.
- Deployed apps/services to cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
If we have an opportunity to engage you in your interview process, we’ll look to assess that you:
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Actively listen and display empathy
- Flexibly assist scrum teams or other initiatives when needed
- Have a strong bias for alignment, action and growth
Helpful Information:
This resource will help explain Stride’s Compensation Philosophy and compensation practices, and will answer some common questions you might have.
Stride’s Compensation Philosophy utilizes a National Payscale, which is designed to fairly and equitably pay employees based on their performance and impact regardless of geographic location. For employees in the United States, our National Payscale leverages San Francisco Bay Area market data to determine our compensation bands for cash, commissions, or bonus (if applicable) and equity.
Unless otherwise noted, the cash compensation above is the total salary and does not include a bonus. In addition to cash compensation, all full-time Striders will be given stock options to participate in Stride’s equity incentive program. We want all Striders to be an owner of the company, value that ownership, and be able to participate in any future positive outcomes for the company.
Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons. Our compensation ranges are designed to be competitive, equitable, and growth-oriented.
We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about what’s included in total compensation, check out some of the benefits and perks Stride offers to all US-based employees.
At Stride, we believe in compensating Striders in ways that are true to their value in the marketplace, that inspire and motivate the team to execute our vision, that shape behavior toward productively building and sustaining Stride's culture, and that support the risks and rewards of a fast-growing technology company.
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing. This can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you!
Stride is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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What We Do
Stride is a strategic partner in driving technological transformation. With our team of seasoned engineers, designers, and product managers we go beyond the traditional boundaries of software development, and delivery, to achieve our clients goals and up-skill their teams.
As trailblazers in the utilization of generative AI, we’re harnessing new and emerging business intelligence and productivity gains to produce value and business outcomes faster than ever before.
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We provide a unique opportunity to continuously level up your technical, leadership, and communication skills.
Our consultants regularly rotate between different companies, teams, and tech stacks, providing many diverse avenues for personal and professional growth.
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