Sr. Software Engineer
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
About Heard
Heard is an all-in-one financial solution for therapists and mental health providers that combines software and human support to handle bookkeeping taxes payroll and more. Our mission is to help providers be providers acting as their financial back office so they can spend less time running their business and more time helping their clients.
Heard is growing rapidly and were building a new generation of AI-powered products to help therapists take control of their financial lives. Were looking for engineers who can help us move fast across retention automation and new product development.
The Role
Were looking for a Seattle based Senior Software Engineer whos a strong systems thinker ships fast and operates with high autonomy. You have deep experience designing building and scaling complex systems - and you amplify that with AI-assisted development tooling to move even faster.
This is a on-site heavily IC full-stack role. Youll flex across priorities - building automation that eliminates manual bookkeeping workflows improving retention through better customer experiences and launching new products and features into the market. Youll work across the frontend and backend and across a system with many third-party integrations. Youll collaborate closely with product design operations and other engineering teams to move work forward.
You bring strong fundamentals in system design architecture and building for maintainability - and you also leverage tools like Claude Code Cursor or Codex to accelerate your work in production codebases. You know how to configure these tools for brownfield repos maintain quality at speed and apply AI agent orchestration to automate real workloads.
What Youll Do
- Ship features and systems across the full stack primarily in Node Typescript AWS and Postgres
- Work across retention automation and new product initiatives depending on what matters most right now
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party services and APIs across the platform
- Design and build automated workflows that reduce manual operational effort (bookkeeping reconciliation support)
- Collaborate daily with product managers designers operations leads and other engineers - this role is highly cross-functional
- Drive architectural decisions on scope feasibility and tradeoffs with minimal hand-holding
- Lead by example your output and approach raise the bar for the team
Required Qualitifications
- 4 years of professional software engineering experience
- Full-stack experience comfortable working across frontend (React) and backend (Express)
- Strong system design and architecture skills youve designed built and scaled complex systems and can make sound decisions on scope feasibility and tradeoffs
- Experience shipping reliable code at scale with attention to performance uptime and maintainability
- Proven ability to build and ship in ambiguous fast-moving environments with minimal hand-holding
- Strong collaboration skills - comfortable working across engineering product design and operations daily
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code Cursor Codex Copilot) in real production work - you use these to move faster not as a crutch
- Experience with AI agent orchestration LLM integration or workflow automation.
- Located in Seattle and able to work in onsite in-office Monday - Friday.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with our stack: TypeScript Express PostgreSQL AWS
- Experience building and maintaining third-party integrations (APIs webhooks data syncs)
- Experience shipping AI-powered product features to end users - e.g. agentic workflows conversational interfaces AI-driven recommendations intelligent document processing or similar across any vertical
- Familiarity with performance and reliability monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog Sentry CloudWatch or similar)
- FinTech experience or familiarity with financial data accounting workflows or regulated environments
- Experience automating operational or back-office workloads
- Track record of configuring AI dev tooling for brownfield codebases (repo context custom rules skills)
What You Get in Return
- Opportunity to reshape how financial services work for mental health providers
- Competitive salary flexible PTO healthcare and home office & wellness stipends
- A fast-moving environment where your work has direct visible impact on the business
$140000 - $200000 a year
Heard takes a market-based approach to pay and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your qualifications experience & work location.
Heard is an equal opportunity employer. We aim to build a workforce of individuals from differed backgrounds with different abilities identities and mindsets. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications listed above we encourage you to apply!
Heard participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys E-Verify program to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. For more information please check out E-Verify.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Heard is the only financial management software built for therapists that enables you to manage your bookkeeping, taxes, and payroll—all in one place.
