Staff Software Engineer

Guideline is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our expanding engineering team. You will join a distributed team of remote employees and employees based near our offices - San Diego, CA; San Mateo, CA; Austin, TX; and Portland, ME. As a Full Stack Engineer on an agile team, you will build upon our growing line of products that bring the possibility of a safe retirement to more people. You will work remote.

What You Will Work On

• Scope projects and design systems architecture for usability and scaling our products.
• Bring modern software solutions to an antiquated financial industry using your expertise of building full stack software solutions.
• Build elegant software from the ground up by creating user interfaces, using message queuing infrastructure, streamlining operations and designing systems architecture.
• Work with a group of passionate technologists to help automate administrative tasks and build unique solutions to solve our users' problems.

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of experience building consumer-facing software products, with 2+ years leading technical direction for a team of engineers.
• Expertise in at least one backend language (Ruby, Python, etc.)
• Fundamental proficiency in the frontend framework React
• Well versed in operating one or more modern databases, designing scalable APIs, and building delightful user interfaces.
• Familiarity with building and scaling a distributed systems environment built with Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP.

More about Guideline

Everyone should have a simple, affordable way to save for retirement. At Guideline, our plans are low cost and highly automated. This makes it easy for companies to offer a valuable benefit—and easy for people to invest in their financial future with confidence.

Compensation

At Guideline, we believe compensation should be fair and equitable. We take a data-driven approach to set our compensation bands; the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Please speak with a recruiter for additional information regarding our tier locations.

• Metro+:
  The base salary range for this position is $183,500 - $274,500 annually.
• Metro:
  The base salary range for this position is $171,500 - $251,500 annually.
• National:  
  The base salary range for this position is $158,000 - $245,000 annually.

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to receive equity in the form of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs). 

At Guideline, base salary is just one component of the overall Total Rewards package offered to employees.  All employees are offered comprehensive benefits and perks to help support you and your family.

• Flexible time off in addition to company holidays — We observe the NYSE Holiday Calendar
• 401(k) with matching contributions — We use our own platform and match 100% of the first 3% contributed, and 50% of the next 2% (for a max employer contribution of 4%)
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance for employees and 70% coverage for dependents
• Opt-out credit if all three plans are waived
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Disability and life insurance options
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching through Modern Health, for employees and their dependents
• Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
• Annual learning and development stipend — We reimburse approved professional development expenses, up to $750 per employee per year.

Guideline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  Additionally, Guideline participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at peopleops@guideline.com.

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