Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Consumer Apps)

Today, 60 million Americans work independently, and that trend is only accelerating. But benefits are tightly coupled with full-time, W2-based jobs. As a result, the millions of Americans who work independently are excluded from that financial safety net.

Stride is the world’s first benefits platform built specifically for contractors, part-timers, and the self-employed. We provide them all the same benefits you’d expect from a W2 job, like insurance, tax support, and discounts on products and services. In fact, since launching in 2014, Stride has helped more than 3 million Americans save more than $3 billion.

We’re partnered with the top employers of non-benefited workers, including DoorDash, Uber, Postmates, MasterCard, Amazon, Aon, and Willis Towers Watson. We’re backed with over $96 million in capital by Venrock, New Enterprise Associates, Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital Partners, King River Capital, Mastercard, and Allstate.
And we’re growing!  While we started off exclusively serving non-benefited workers, other companies in our space started knocking on our door to tailor our platform for their customers. Now we need outstanding people (like you!) to help us reach our mission and improve access to affordable benefits for all.

At Stride, we pride ourselves on a snappy, best-in-class User Experience while shopping and enrolling in benefits. While we started with Consumer, other companies in our space started knocking on our door to build a platform to provide their customers with the same experience. Fast-forward to now, and Platform has made us become a hyper-growth company.

The Stride Engineering Team is looking for a motivated Full-Stack Software Engineer to help take our Consumer products to the next level. We’re a small, cross-functional Product Engineering team that collaborates very closely between Product, QA, Design, and Engineering.

Your work will enormously impact our current web architecture and how we scale it for the future. You’ll work closely with our other frontend, backend, and full-stack Engineers to establish patterns, set best practices, implement front-end features, and bring up infrastructure as code. You’ll work with both product and design teams to set milestones around deliverables and chart a course for the long-term strategy of our suite of web products. 

We’re looking for a highly autonomous engineer with a proven track record of leveling up others. Someone who will help set a higher standard and break new ground in operating and evolving our team and development practices.

• You will help modernize our codebase and infrastructure, so we have a state-of-the-art architecture that applies best practices. You will be an advocate for solid and clean architecture principles, testing, and Continuous Integration/Delivery.

• You will be tasked with developing frontend and backend application architectures that allow for moving fast and iterating quickly, backed by rock-solid infrastructure. You will eventually own large chunks of those codebases and infrastructure. You will develop a leading voice on their roadmap.

• Be a mentor and coach to the other Engineers, helping raise the bar for quality. You will maintain a high level of engineering and security standards.

• You’ll closely work alongside our Product and Design people to maintain and extend the feature set of the Stride web apps.

• Senior-level experience building and contributing to both frontend and backend web applications

• Proven track record leading quality, high-growth Web Engineering teams from a technical standpoint

• Wide-ranging programming experience in Javascript.

• Strong proficiency in at least one Javascript framework like React (preferred), Vue, or similar

• You have deployed your apps/services to at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Experience working with RESTful APIs.

• Experience with relational database systems (PostgreSQL)

• Experience managing project builds and dependencies using NPM/Yarn/others.

• Good active listening skills, the ability to empathize with customers, stakeholders and other engineers

• Lead by example by practicing open and respectful dialogue

• An eye for detail and design. You are as comfortable whipping up a quick prototype to share with Product and Design as you are refining and coming up with pixel-perfect web apps.

• Most importantly, you possess a strong bias for action and a growth mindset. You are as comfortable zooming in to apply your expertise as you zoom out to see the big picture.

• Deep knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript

• Experience with GraphQL

• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools

• Experience with containerization (Docker or similar)

• Experience designing and setting up CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with Design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Zeplin

• Experience with ExpressJS

• Experience with an ORM

• Experience with Redis caching

• Experience with NoSQL datastores such as DynamoDB or MongoDB.

• You have implemented a serverless application/service

#LI-RR

We’re excited that you’re looking to Stride for your next leadership opportunity. We take that decision seriously and want to provide you with an opportunity where you can grow meaningfully in your career. We support a fully remote work structure, with bi-annual company retreats and opportunities to collaborate in-person with your teams in between, as necessary. In the meantime, you can check out our Built In and The Muse profiles! 

Perks & Benefits

All US BASED full-time Stride employees are eligible for the following benefits and perks:

• Work remotely from wherever you want in the US, and still get together with your team at least twice per year
• For US based candidates, a salary calibrated to the San Francisco Bay Area—historically the highest in the nation
• Health, Dental, and Vision plans with employees covered at 100% and dependents covered at 70%
• 12 weeks of paid bonding leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, inclusive of adoption and fostering
• Employer paid One Medical membership
• Flexible paid time off
• Quarterly company-wide mental health days
• 2 weeks of company-wide end-of-year refresh time
• 401k management platform (we do not currently match)
• A generous equity package to give you ownership in what we're building together
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company-wide in-person retreats
• $100/month work from home stipend
• $75/month wellness stipend
• $1,000/year learning and development budget

Notable Press

• The New York Times: It’s Not Just You: Picking a Health Insurance Plan Is Really Hard
• The New York Times: Chasing Entrepreneurial Opportunity in the Affordable Care Act
• Market Insider: Stride raises $47M to provide affordable benefits for independent workers
• Mastercard: Mastercard and Stride Team Up to Bring Portable Benefits to Gig and Independent Workers
• AP News: Stride Health's Enrollment Platform powers CMS "Gig Workers' Week of Action
• Oscar: Oscar Health, Inc. Announces Partnership with Stride Health to Provide Best-In-Class Enrollment Experience for Members and Brokers

Our CEO’s Perspectives

• Fortune: Health care access will fuel the Great Resignation—and that’s a good thing (co-authored by CEO)
• Marketwatch Opinion: How a ‘529 solution’ can give gig workers health care and retirement benefits and boost the U.S. economy

Some bonus fun:

• Built In: Stride is Making Health Coverage Easier for the Gig Economy 
• We sponsor Free Solo star Alex Honnold - Stride Health: Alex Honnold's Urban Ascents
• Ranked #6 dog-friendly company - Rover Unveils the Best Dog-Friendly Companies of 2021
• 19 New Companies That You Don't Want to Miss on The Muse

Stride is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.