Guideline is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our expanding engineering team. You will join a distributed team of remote employees and employees based near our offices. As a Backend Engineer on an agile team, you will build upon our growing line of products that bring the possibility of a safe retirement to more people. You will be able to work remote.

What You Will Work On

• Scope projects and design systems architecture for usability and scaling our products.
• Develop APIs for web and mobile applications that manage sensitive financial assets and important business logic.
• Work with a group of passionate technologists to help automate administrative tasks that allow our customers easy and accessible access to retirement planning.
• Lay the groundwork for further expansion into other financial services past 20,000 customers.

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience building services that support consumer-facing software products
• Experience programming in at least one backend language such as Ruby, Python, or Go
• Working knowledge of relational databases, designing APIs, and security lifecycle best practices.
• Familiarity with (or wants to learn) how to run modern distributed systems environments built with Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP

We understand that not everyone will be an expert in all of these areas on Day One. We value people who enjoy learning and will consider someone with the fundamentals who wants to further their skills.

More about Guideline

Technology is the backbone of what we do. It allows us to automate many 401(k) administrative tasks, integrate with leading payroll providers, and build affordable retirement plans for the smallest businesses.

But our platform is powered by people—engineers, account managers, data analysts, retirement consultants, and many more. Together, we’re creating a retirement platform that puts people first and empowers small business owners, their employees and the self-employed to not just retire, but arrive at a secure retirement.

In just a few years of operations, we’ve grown to 30,000+ clients and over $6 billion in assets under management—and have raised $344M with top-tier investors.

Offer Package

The expected Salary Range for this position is $173,500 - $227,500 annually. Compensation is determined by numerous factors such as your qualifications, experience, and work location.

Additional benefits:

• Flexible vacation policy
• Company equity
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• 100% paid employee insurance coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Parental leave
• Sabbatical after 5 years of employment

Guideline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Employment open to residents of AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, NV, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, WA. Guideline is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information of our applicants. Please refer to Guideline’s Privacy Policy for information about our privacy and security practices.

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