Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Instrumentl
$170-200k
+ Equity
AI-powered SaaS platform for funding grants
Posted today
AI-powered SaaS platform for funding grants
101-200 employees
Posted today
$170-200k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be a force-multiplier for non-profits.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years as a software engineer building and shipping production software
- Generalist range: comfortable moving across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data or billing pipelines as the work demands
- Deep, hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails in production: this is our primary stack and where you'll spend most of your time
- Working fluency across Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and HTML/CSS, with an openness to adopting new tools
- A track record of owning problems end to end and delivering them from ideation to completion
Desirable
- Startup or early-stage experience
- Experience mentoring or leveling up other engineers
What the job involves
- You'll be a Senior Full Stack Engineer reporting to our Head of Engineering, working across design, product, content, and support to deliver a best-in-class experience to every user
- On a small, distributed team that owns the product, support, and data stack end to end, you'll build and improve both customer-facing products and internal tooling, own problems from ideation through shipped and reliable solutions, and help set the quality bar for the engineers who join after you
- We're an AI-forward team that invests heavily in modern tooling and expects engineers to use it with strong judgment, staying the author and owner of their work rather than outsourcing it to the tools
- If you want broad ownership and real impact at a profitable, fast-growing company rather than a narrow slice at a larger one, this is that seat
- Build & Ship:
- Build, operate, and improve products for every Instrumentl customer, from small local nonprofits to large organizations
- Create responsive interfaces and APIs that drive customer adoption and retention
- Contribute high-quality, thoroughly tested code across resilient backends and trustworthy user interfaces
- Own problems end to end, managing complexity from ideation through shipped, reliable solutions
- Use AI tooling with judgment to move faster while owning the quality, correctness, and long-term maintainability of what you ship
- Partner & Elevate:
- Partner with product, sales, support, and content to improve internal tools and processes
- Act as a strategic partner, weighing business impact, reliability, and the detail of every customer interaction
- Uphold Instrumentl's quality standards and mentor newer engineers to the same bar
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.
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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