Senior MEAN Stack Developer (Remote - Global) We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior MEAN Stack Developer to join our team. This is a fully remote position; however, candidates must be able to align with our time zones and team collaboration needs. Note: This is not a management role. We are looking for hands-on developers who deliver high-quality work and communicate effectively in proficient English with team members. Key Responsibilities Collaborate with team members to design, develop, and deploy scalable web applications. Architect, build, and maintain robust REST APIs with JSON responses. Create and optimize microservices with a focus on high availability and reliability. Analyze large problems, break them into smaller components, and deliver effective solutions. Perform code reviews, offering constructive feedback while adopting feedback from peers. Continuously seek opportunities to improve the codebase, internal processes, and project outcomes. Stay updated on the latest technologies and proactively contribute to projects beyond your core expertise. Required Skills and Experience 5+ years of recent hands-on experience with the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js). Deep understanding of JavaScript Core, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3 . Proven expertise with cloud technologies like AWS, GCP, Docker and K8S . Strong knowledge of databases, cloud architecture, networking, and current security protocols. Demonstrated ability to work with Git and continuous integration systems . Familiarity with Agile/XP methodologies . Great communication skills in English, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Proactive approach to learning new technologies and contributing across projects. Known for taking ownership, solving complex problems, and delivering results in a fast-paced environment. Nice-to-Have Experience working with financial data or services . Familiarity with Zapier integrations. Experience using tools like Jira and TestRail . Exposure to DevOps practices or workflows. What We’re Looking For A team player who values collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement. Someone passionate about writing clean, maintainable code and staying ahead of tech trends. A critical thinker who can analyze problems and turn them into actionable solutions. Why Join Us? Work in a fully remote environment with a talented and collaborative team. Engage with meaningful projects that challenge your skills and promote professional growth. Contribute to a company culture that values innovation, communication, and quality. Application Note We’re looking for thoughtful, human-written applications. Please avoid copy-pasted or AI-generated responses and share your real experience as directly as possible.

• Collaborate within cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy scalable and efficient software solutions. • Take ownership of end-to-end feature development, from conception to deployment and maintenance. • Contribute innovative ideas and solutions to improve product functionality, performance, and usability. • Implement best practices for coding, testing, and deployment to ensure high-quality deliverables. • Work closely with product managers and designers to translate requirements into technical specifications. • Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement and innovation.

Hello, we’re Instrumentl. We’re a mission-driven startup helping the nonprofit sector to drive impact, and we’re well on our way to becoming the #1 most-loved grant discovery and management tool. To help us get there, we’re hiring an Engineering Lead to provide both technical leadership and people management for one of our product engineering teams. If you’re excited by the idea of building great software, mentoring a strong team, and applying AI in practical, user-facing ways, we’d love to hear from you. About us: Instrumentl is a hypergrowth YC-backed startup with over 5,000 nonprofit clients, from local homeless shelters to larger organizations like the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. We are building the future of fundraising automation, helping nonprofits to discover, track, and manage grants efficiently through our SaaS platform. Since 2015, our customers have used Instrumentl to find, win, and manage over $6.7 billion in grant funding. Our charts are dramatically up-and-to-the-right 📈 — we’re cash flow positive and doubling year-over-year, with customers who love us (NPS is 65+ and Ellis PMF survey is 60+). Join us on this rocket ship! About the role: As an Engineering Lead at Instrumentl, you’ll help shape technical direction, support engineers in their growth, and ensure we’re delivering scalable, high-impact product experiences, especially through the use of modern AI tools and features. Instrumentl’s engineers are organized into five teams: - Growth/GTM : go-to-market tooling - Discover : grant discovery features - Apply : grant application/proposal development and submission features - Manage : grant award tracking and reporting features - Data, Tools, and Infrastructure (DTI) : platform and internal tooling You will embed with one of the above groups in a hands-on leadership role, actively balancing team management with individual technical contribution. Get to know us at instrumentl.com/about! The Instrumentl team is fully distributed (though if you’d like to work from our Oakland office, we would love to see you there). For this position, we are looking for someone who has significant overlap with Pacific Time Zone working hours. What you'll do: Lead and mentor a team of engineers, balancing hands-on technical work with coaching and execution. Drive technical planning and team execution, from early discovery to final delivery. Partner on AI-backed product features, bringing practical experience in integrating models or AI services into production systems. Work side by side with Product and Design teams, connecting technical feasibility to customer outcomes. Transform product development by applying cutting-edge AI tools, driving impact in both what we build and how we build it. Raise the bar on technical standards, from pull request quality to incident response, ensuring that we leave things better than we found them. Foster a team culture where engineers take ownership of results, challenge each other constructively, and continuously level up. What we're looking for: Software engineering background: you’ve been a software engineer for 6+ years, including at least 2 years leading a team or function. Startup experience and comfort operating in fast, scrappy environments is a huge plus! Hands-on leadership: you’ve demonstrated your ability to guide system design, drive execution, and develop talent on growing Engineering teams. Experience with AI integration: you have practical experience shipping AI-powered product features or integrating third-party AI services into production systems. Technical adaptability: you’re familiar with Ruby on Rails or similar web frameworks (our core platform is built in Rails). You’re also open to learning new tools or frameworks to move faster and build better. Collaborative approach: you thrive in a cross-functional environment involving product managers, designers, marketers, and data analysts, and you value the unique perspective each person brings to the table. Results-driven: you’ve shown a bias for action and ownership in fast-paced, high-autonomy environments. You have strong instincts for balancing speed, quality, and simplicity in technical decision-making. Player/coach mindset: your team leadership style is grounded in clarity, trust, and accountability. You hold yourself to a high standard and help others to raise the bar. Passion: you’re excited about Instrumentl’s mission to propel nonprofits into a bigger, brighter future! Compensation and Benefits: Salary ranges are based on market data, relative to our size, industry, and stage of growth. Salary is one part of total compensation, which also includes equity, perks, and competitive benefits. For US-based candidates, our target salary band is $175,000 - $220,000/year + equity. Salary decisions will be based on multiple factors including geographic location, qualifications for the role, skillset, proficiency, and experience level. Company laptop + stipend to set up your home workstation Company retreats for in-person time with your colleagues Work with awesome nonprofits around the US. We partner with incredible organizations doing meaningful work, and you get to help power their success. What to expect: Instrumentl is evolving rapidly. You’ll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow in your role - you won’t be bored! You’ll be an early member of our small but mighty team, playing a huge part in shaping our culture for the years and teammates to come. At Instrumentl: - We’re customer-focused. We routinely seek feedback from our customers to improve the Instrumentl experience for everyone. Our first company value is "The customer is the hero" and we mean it. - We love to experiment. We are constantly generating new concepts and iterating to see what works - ideation and experimentation are essential here. "Bend the curve" is another key company value. - We appreciate authenticity. We have a diverse range of life experiences, and we encourage open, clear communication with each other about the things that matter most to us. - We’re approachable and collaborative. Everyone has a voice, and we’re all building Instrumentl together. - We kick it every day with some of the nicest people in the world. No joke, our customers are often on the front lines educating kids, saving endangered species, and restoring watersheds. In helping them take advantage of Instrumentl’s technology, you’re helping them move the world forward. Ready to apply? Please submit a written response addressing the prompts below: 1. Why are you interested in Instrumentl? 2. What makes you a good fit for the Engineering Lead role? Don't forget to include the word moxie in your application to show you read this from start to finish! Along with your written response, please attach your CV or resume. At Instrumentl, we pride ourselves on building a diverse team from the ground up. Every role is an opportunity to teach, learn, and create some of your best work - if you’re excited to grow along with us, we encourage you to apply!

What you can expect working with us: You will rewrite a massive industry with 10000s of businesses. You will be introducing technology to the moving industry, an industry previously untouched by software. By working with our customer base, you will provide them more time, revenue, and speed – radically uplifting the entire moving experience for everyone in the world. We accompany our customers every step of the way from the moment they partner with us to the end of their journey. We bring passion to what we do every day because what we do matters to real people. You will likely determine the fate of our company. We are a customer-driven team that tackles problems with empathy and logical reasoning. We aim to truly solve problems for our customers and accomplish this through a thorough process of problem discovery, user research, user testing, and iteration. We're looking for experienced, thoughtful product engineers who enjoy solving real-world problems and seeing their software used by thousands of people everyday. You will work with a smart and action-oriented team. At Supermove, we are trying to do what's nearly impossible – to create an enduring and iconic company. We are relentless and ambitious with all of our goals. We move extremely quickly, and prefer to iterate rather than deliberate. We always operate with full trust and transparency, knowing that our top priority is to achieve our vision to the best of our ability. Quick Facts We closed our series A round raising $18M led by a16z in 2022 - read more about it here. We are a 40 person team of Pinterest, Asana, Facebook, and Google alums. We are early and the opportunity is massive. 10,000s of companies have not heard from us yet. We close new customers every week and have >2x our revenue in the past year. Role & Responsibilities Build new user-facing features end-to-end from the database schema up to the UI components with great attention to detail Create generic systems that are able to solve any workflow in a scalable way. Generalized systems include billing, document creation and storage, task workflow, and customer communication systems Optimize our GraphQL backend for fast performance so that our movers are able to complete their jobs quickly Add real-time support to our notifications framework and customer communication features Work on our early-staged design system to build UI components consistently and quickly. Help define how we build components here at Supermove Open source general frameworks that we use to build entire applications consistently and quickly Shipping code, conduct code reviews Architecture docs and Design handoffs Product brainstorm/scoping (if desired) Design review/brainstorm (if desired) Competencies Backend Understanding of relational databases GraphQL Python/Flask AWS Lambdas Basics of testing: e2e, integration, unit Frontend React React Native GraphQL Frontend Testing Skills & Experience You have relevant experience. You have 2-5 years of experience at a relevant tech, product-driven company. Ideally with 1-2 years of experience in an early-stage startup (Seed, Series A). You truly believe in our mission. You believe moving is a significant moment in a person's life and believe we can make the moving experience great. You are curious and empathetic. You always aim to understand the full picture from the customer's point of view. You're willing to challenge your understanding of this every day to improve it. You embrace change. You understand that change is the only constant in a startup. You are excited to propose and lead change when you have a better way. Our Tech Stack React and React Native client apps built with an Apollo GraphQL data layer, Styled Components for styling our UI, and hooks for handling modals, responsiveness, navigation, and more. Together with our design team, we have built a shared design system used in all client applications. Flask backend with a performant GraphQL layer built with Graphene. Redis for async task handling and working with external systems. Infrastructure is all on AWS with usage of Lambdas, ECS, and Dynamo. We have a CI/CD pipeline that enables us to test every pull request and deploy multiple times per day. Our processes include using Notion, Slack, Zoom, and GitHub for all communication. Why this role Large amount of ownership within the first 3 months of joining. You’ll be able to jump into projects within your first 30 days, and own several features by the end of your 90 days. Modern tech stack: Python/JS with React, React Native, GraphQL, Flask, Postgres, AWS (Lambdas, ECS, Dynamo). Fast iteration cycles. We build and launch our features behind flags. This enables us to deploy multiple times a day without disruption to other engineers on the team. Strong engineering backgrounds: Work with bright engineers from Asana, Facebook, Pinterest. Additional Perks & Benefits: Market comp, medical, vision, dental. Provide direct input to overall company strategy. Timeline: We move at super speed with a simple four step process. Phone screen, CTO & Hiring Manager Interview, Technical Interview, and then a three hour virtual final round interview with the founders and future team members. Pay Range: Software Engineer I: $90,000 USD - $140,000 USD Software Engineer II: $120,000 USD - $170,000 USD