Staff Software Engineer

Who Boundless is

Were a team of immigrants and experts who have struggled with our own journeys through the complex high-stakes U.S. immigration system. That is why we are building deeply customer-centric products and experiences to become the default trusted partner for all families and businesses. We are the largest player in the family immigration industry and a high-growth challenger serving corporate clients. Across both consumer and business segments weve aided over 100000 individuals and 1000 businesses to successfully navigate the convoluted immigration process.

Were backed by influential venture investors around the country including Foundry Group (led by Brad Feld) Trilogy Equity Partners Pioneer Square Labs Emerson Collective (Laurene Powell Jobs foundation) Two Sigma Ventures and Jerry Yang.

Today we are a dynamic growth-stage technology company with 350 employees across the U.S. and Philippines. We are growing both organically and through strategic acquisitions. We are well-capitalized and on our way to becoming the largest immigration company in the world and first trusted brand in the industry.

What youll do

As a Staff Software Engineer at Boundless youll serve as a technical lead across key initiatives shaping architecture and engineering best practices while delivering meaningful product experiences for immigrants and their families. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex high-impact problems and guide other engineers in making thoughtful technical decisions. You will also help scale the engineering organization by actively contributing to hiring onboarding and shaping a collaborative inclusive culture.

During your first month you will:

• Learn by doing with your team. Ramp up quickly by contributing to one of our major initiatives shipping code to production within your first 2 weeks
• Dive into our architecture and technical practices through pairing documentation and collaboration
• Learn how Boundless operates from our mission and customers to our product development and career growth frameworks
• Discover our process and practices. Throughout your first month youll learn about our practices & process; the way we plan and ship our work.

Within three months you will:

• Take technical ownership of a major product or service area driving architectural decisions and collaborating with other tech leads
• Partner with PMs and stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into clearly defined technical solutions
• Lead technical discovery and planning for cross-team initiatives
• Help define and uphold engineering standards ensuring code quality performance and testability
• Participate in hiring processes helping us attract and assess top engineering talent

Within a year you will:

• Consistently lead complex multi-sprint efforts
• Propose and execute on structural improvements to the codebase technical processes or infrastructure
• Mentor engineers supporting their growth and increasing overall engineering velocity
• Play a key role in scaling the engineering team by refining our hiring practices supporting candidate evaluation and contributing to onboarding
• Actively foster an inclusive high-trust engineering culture that reflects Boundlesss mission and values

About this position
You are a strong full-stack engineer with deep backend or systems expertise. You love mentoring and unlocking others potential. You strike the right balance between pragmatism and technical excellence. Youre curious about our mission and passionate about using your skills to build systems that scale with care.

You will work with a variety of technologies including Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React/Typescript. We dont require you to initially be an expert in all of these technologies but we do expect you to have expertise in one and be willing to learn others quickly. Solid understanding of security practices is a big plus for this position.

You might work on things like:

• Integrate AI tools into our core application to dramatically decrease the time our legal team spends writing.
• Implement task windows to allow an applicant a few more days to gather some information.
• Plan and implement the migration and deprecation of a core service (eg post acquisition).
• Build chained applications for visa applications that always follow the same progression. One of these is PERM to I-140 to Adjustment of Status. Instead of treating these as one off applications we updated our architecture so that these are now treated as a chain of applications. This means applicants will not need to re-enter as much information and we can also accurately project when the next application should be started (which is dependent on information from previous applications).

About you

• 10 years of experience in software development with a strong background in backend systems and product-driven engineering
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering scalable architecture in production environments
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend framework (Rails preferred but not required) and working knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks
• Comfortable working across the stack and owning features end-to-end
• Deep commitment to code quality reliability and thoughtful testing practices
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and leading by influence
• Collaborative and effective communicator especially when navigating ambiguity
• Passionate about building inclusive high-performing engineering teams through hiring mentorship and cultural leadership
• Eager to contribute beyond code; whether thats through onboarding project scoping or helping shape the future of engineering at Boundless

Why work for Boundless

Boundless offers employees the unique opportunity to grow professionally as leaders in the online immigration industry while driving positive social change. Every employee is essential to achieving our core mission of empowering every family to navigate the immigration system more confidently rapidly and affordably.

We are trailblazers in the online immigration space because we arent constrained by convention - We think without bounds. Boundless is a place for employees who arent afraid to continuously try new things. We value a spirit of inquiry and look for individuals who ask questions and challenge ideas to move us forward to understand the why. We encourage our employees to focus on outcomes over output and to address complex challenges with simple solutions. Boundless is all about ownership accountability and flexibility in how we approach our individual company roles and the industry as a whole.

Location

Seattle. 2 days/week in-office.

Compensation

Compensation for this role includes both cash and equity. The starting base salary for this position is typically $170000 - $220000. Total compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidates experience qualifications skills and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process. Additionally Boundless offers its U.S. full-time employees benefits including medical dental vision 401K match life and AD&D insurance short-term disability insurance commuter benefits flexible spending accounts pet insurance discounts and cell phone plan discounts.