Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Binti
$240-300k
Offers Equity
SaaS solutions for child welfare agencies
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SaaS solutions for child welfare agencies
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-300k
Offers Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
Binti’s mission is to reinvent child welfare through software with the goal of helping every child to have a family.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated track record leading large-scale infrastructure and architectural projects across multiple teams or systems
- Ability to set technical direction, not just execute on it — including navigating ambiguity, making principled trade-offs, and bringing others along
- Deep experience building and maintaining configurable, enterprise-grade systems; government-facing software experience is a strong plus
- Strong command of Ruby on Rails and React; GraphQL experience a plus
- Product orientation — you think about user impact and business outcomes, not just technical elegance
- Excellent communication skills: you can distill complex technical decisions for product, engineering, and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience mentoring and elevating senior engineers, and a genuine investment in team culture
- Fluency applying AI tools in your own workflow and excitement about building AI-powered product features
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Staff Engineer who combines deep technical judgment with strong product instincts, and who is energized by applying modern AI tooling to accelerate both their own work and the broader team's output. At this level, you'll drive technical direction across teams and help define the engineering culture at Binti
- Own cross-team technical strategy for major platform areas — setting direction on architecture, reliability, and scalability, not just within your squad but across engineering
- Lead complex, multi-quarter infrastructure and architectural initiatives from design through delivery, coordinating dependencies across teams
- Define and champion engineering standards and patterns that make the codebase more flexible, scalable, and maintainable for all engineers
- Partner closely with Product, Policy, and Technical Account Management to shape roadmap decisions with strong technical and product perspective
- Identify and resolve systemic risks — including security, HIPAA compliance, performance bottlenecks, and incident response — before they become problems
- Raise the technical ceiling for the whole engineering org through code review, design critique, and modeling excellent judgment
- Proactively leverage AI and modern tooling to drive higher output quality and team efficiency
- Sample projects
- Architect a reusable, configurable platform layer for scheduling and application requirements that scales across dozens of distinct agency workflows nationwide
- Design the data model and engineering plan for representing complex, non-biological human relationships across the platform
- Lead the cross-team technical design for transferring applications between agencies with variable permission and workflow configurations
- Spearhead development of new product areas like child intake and community crisis response, defining the engineering foundation others build on
Our take
In the US there are almost half a million children in foster care, and around a quarter of those are still waiting to be adopted. Connecting children with the right families, all of whom need to be thoroughly checked before approval, is a long and labor-heavy process involving huge volumes of paperwork.
Binti is aiming to reinvent child welfare by partnering with county and state governments, and private social work firms. The company provides them with modern software to speed up and increase approval volumes while still maintaining high standards.
The company has grown quickly since launching in 2017 and struck partnerships with the likes of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, & NYC Children’s Services. The company is showing no signs of slowing down, having concluded a major fundraise to expand further across the US in 2021.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2021
$45m
SERIES B
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- An above-market compensation package (salary + equity)
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance - 99% of insurance premiums covered for you + your dependents
- Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend, targeting 20 days/year
- 16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for the arrival of a newborn or newly placed infant
- 13 paid holidays; 11 Federally observed holidays (including Juneteenth), plus the day after Thanksgiving and Election Day
- Sick/Mental Health time separate from vacation days (72 hours)
- 4 weeks of sabbatical after 4 years of service at the company
- 401(k) with 100% match of contributions up to 4% of your annual salary
- Commuter benefits, FSA, and DCSA with administration paid for
- $5,000 annual bonus for employees who volunteer as a CASA (court-appointed special advocates)
- $2,500 annual reimbursement for ongoing learning and development, with opportunities to attend trainings/conferences, on-site speaker series, and lunch and learns
- $1,000 reimbursement for virtual home office setup
- $100/month remote work stipend to cover internet, electricity, or home office setup costs, or $250/month for a co-working space
- Weekly reimbursement for lunch with coworkers - virtually or at our Oakland office
- Paid Jury Duty
- Remote work friendly
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Felicia Curcuru
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Engagement Manager at McKinsey. Also served as Director of Business Development and VP User Experience at online venture capital platform, FundersClub.
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