Software Engineer
Braven, United States
Job Description
Job Title: Software Engineer
Team: Systems
Location: In-Person in Chicago (IL)
Employment Type: Full-time
FLSA Classification: Exempt
Start Date: ASAP
About Braven
We believe that the next generation of leaders will emerge from everywhere. We empower promising college students with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact.
Learn more about Braven’s impact:
https://impactreport.bebraven.org/
https://jobsreport.bebraven.org/
About the Role
In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Software Engineer who will focus on the user experience to have a real impact on students’ lives. We want students using our platform to feel empowered, connected, and engaged. To accomplish this, we aggressively prioritize which projects we work on, aiming to provide the most value in the simplest way possible. We constantly iterate to improve our services as we see what works and what doesn’t. We’re agile and we like to have fun!
You will play a crucial role in our mission: prototyping new features, helping peers grow through code reviews, and learning new technologies. Braven is entering an exciting growth phase in which we need to balance agility to develop new features against discipline to ensure we use software engineering best practices.
This role is on the Systems team and reports directly to the Managing Director, Software Engineering.
What You’ll Do
- Focus on full-stack project initiatives (90%)
- Work primarily in Ruby on Rails or Python, demonstrating proficiency and an understanding of the framework.
- Innovate and solve problems creatively, enhancing technological capabilities.
- Take ownership of well-scoped tasks and reliably finish them at a high quality.
- Use knowledge of software engineering best practices to transform our processes, systems, and code to be more robust and maintainable
- Keep the end-user front and center in everything you do - elegant code is great, but real impact on students’ lives is better
- Innovate and solve problems creatively, enhancing technological capabilities.
- Improve the team via reviews, documentation, and cross-functional communication (10%)
- Provide feedback on colleagues’ code and architecture proposals
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
- Document architectures, design decisions, and protocols, maintaining clear and accessible records for future reference.
- Actively participate in weekly scrum meetings and sprints.
- Stay informed about industry trends, security best practices, and compliance requirements, ensuring the team's work aligns with current standards.
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in related technical field or 3+ years of technical training
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with web frameworks like React, ensuring versatility in full-stack development.
- Skilled in various software development areas, including backend, frontend and database design, with experience in technologies like BigQuery, PostgreSQL, and version control tools like Git.
- Proficient in project management, capable of prioritizing tasks effectively, paying attention to detail, and making informed decisions independently when needed.
- Adaptability is demonstrated through a willingness to engage in diverse tasks, maintaining a solutions-focused approach amidst changing priorities.
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of effectively managing stakeholders and bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong mentoring skills, fostering a culture of learning and growth, with a focus on equity and inclusion.
- Personal attributes of emotional intelligence, autonomy, empathy, and the ability to maintain composure in challenging situations, emphasizing a proactive, forward-looking approach in software development.
- Demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion.
- Exemplification of Braven’s core values.
- Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population.
Please know that no one ever meets 100% of the preferred qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.
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