Engineering Lead, Instrumentl
$175-220k
+ Equity
More information about location
AI-powered SaaS platform for funding grants
Posted today
AI-powered SaaS platform for funding grants
101-200 employees
Posted today
$175-220k
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be a force-multiplier for non-profits.
Role
Who you are
- Software engineering background: you’ve been a software engineer for 7+ years, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership role. 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 and drive execution on growing Engineering teams. Your leadership style is grounded in clarity, trust, and accountability
- 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 proficient in Ruby on Rails (our core platform is built in Rails), and open to learning new tools or frameworks to move faster and build better. Additional experience with Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, HTML, and CSS is a plus!
- 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
- Passion: you’re excited about Instrumentl’s mission to propel nonprofits into a bigger, brighter future!
What the job involves
- We’re hiring an Engineering Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership as our product evolves. You’ll report to the Head of Engineering and will help shape technical direction and ensure we’re delivering scalable, high-impact product experiences, especially through the use of modern AI tools and features
- You'll concentrate on one of Instrumentl's core Engineering focus areas, which include:
- Growth Product/Customer Acquisition: go-to-market tooling
- Find/Win/Manage: core Instrumentl product functions, supporting end-to-end grant lifecycle management
- Data, Tools, and Infrastructure (DTI): platform and internal tooling
- Technical Leadership:
- Drive technical planning and execution for an engineering team, from early discovery to final delivery
- Raise the bar on technical standards: pull request quality, incident response, and continuous improvement
- Foster a team culture where engineers take ownership, challenge each other constructively, and level up
- AI & Product Partnership:
- Partner on AI-backed product features, bringing practical experience integrating models and AI services into production systems
- Transform product development by applying cutting-edge AI tools, driving impact in both what we build and how we build it
- Work side by side with Product and Design, connecting technical feasibility to customer outcomes
Our take
For nonprofits and academic institutions, a lot of energy and manpower is funnelled into finding the right grants and drafting their applications. This work before the work often takes hundreds of hours, and many funding bodies have as little as a 20% success rate. Instrumentl has set out to change that with its full-grant-drafting pipeline platform.
Instrumentl’s AI-powered platform works across the full grant lifecycle, assisting applicants in researching the perfect fit for funding, increasing redraft efficiency, discovering insights to align applications with the funding body's requirements and tracking and managing applications. Ultimately, then, Instrumentl sheds the need for multiple grant application tools and becomes a one-stop shop for grant consultants, non-profits and academic researchers.
It’s making a difference too, with a 2024 survey of customers revealing that its software helped them gain, on average, an extra $1.1 million a year. With a total of more than $7.7 billion raised through the platform and more than 4,500 leading organizations as customers, it’s unsurprising that Instrumentl itself has seen significant funding awarded. As the work of global non-profits grows in importance, Instrumentl is living up to its name.
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Company benefits
- Competitive salary: We offer a competitive salary as part of a comprehensive benefit package including a 401k
- Equity: We're doubling year over year. This means if we keep executing, the company (and your equity) will be worth a lot
- Health insurance: 100% coverage of employee health & dental insurance plans and 50% for dependents
- Paid time off: Generous PTO policy, including parental leave, so you can rest and recharge
- Office setup: Company laptop + $500 to set up your home workstation
- Investment in you: We help fund your professional development by providing coaching and education
- Remote: The team is fully distributed (read: no office!)
- Extras!: In-person retreats, surprise food deliveries, and games to add zest to your work life
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Katharine Corriveau
(Co-Founder)Previously a Development Specialist at UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a Computer Registrations Intern at the California Academy of Sciences.
Gauri Manglik
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also Member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy. Previously a Venture Partner at the Pioneer Fund, Product Manager at Air BNB and was a CEO & Co-Founder at Fondu.
Angela Braren
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of New Ventures at Perfect Day, was a Fundraiser at the Global Fund for Women and was a Salmon Habitat Specialist at Project SHARE.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Instrumentl
- At Instrumentl, we pride ourselves on building a diverse team from the ground up. We’re fully committed to cultivating a safe, welcoming environment where everyone is empowered to contribute, thrive, and do their best work.
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