Senior Engineer

This is not a conventional senior role - it is a deliberate growth investment in someone who is already practicing AI-forward development and is ready to accelerate toward Principal Engineer. On this team, that trajectory is expected and tracked; most people in this role reach Principal readiness within 12–18 months. You will work on Traverse, our flagship SaaS product built to help child welfare and HHS case managers do their jobs better - meaningful work on a small, flat, high-autonomy team where your fingerprints are on everything you ship.

If you are already using agentic tooling as a daily habit and you want to be somewhere that rewards it, this is that place.

• 5+ years of professional software development experience; trajectory and demonstrated AI-forward working practice matter more than raw years
• Strong full-stack proficiency with no hard gaps: comfortable across backend, frontend, and database layers - direct experience with Ruby on Rails, React/Type Script, and Postgre
  
  SQL is a strong advantage
• Genuine, daily practice of AI-assisted development using agentic tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot, or equivalent) - with demonstrable productivity impact, not occasional use
• Solid engineering fundamentals: clean code, version control discipline, test‑first thinking, and SOLID principles
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

• Deliver Traverse features independently across the full stack - from database schema and API design through UI implementation and deployment - with increasing scope over time
• Own automated testing for everything you build: unit, integration, and end‑to‑end coverage is part of your definition of done, not a downstream step
• Actively adopt and improve the agentic engineering workflows as they evolve - you're expected to be a fast learner and early adopter
• Participate in code review as both a contributor and a recipient - give and receive direct, actionable technical feedback
• Proactively seek growth: pair with Principal engineers and senior team members, take stretch assignments, and raise your own ceiling toward Principal Engineer readiness
• Contribute to the agentic engineering framework as you grow - engineers at every level participate in improving how the team works, not just in what gets shipped

• Genuine, practiced AI‑assisted development as a daily habit - you use agentic tooling to write, test, and debug code, and your productivity shows it; "comfortable with AI tools" is the old bar, and you've already cleared it
• Strong full‑stack range with no hard gaps - you can own a feature from database schema through UI and not need to hand it off at any layer
• Test‑first thinking built into how you work - you write tests as you build, not as an afterthought, and you understand the tradeoffs between unit, integration, and E2E coverage
• Solid engineering fundamentals - clean code, SOLID principles, version control discipline, and meaningful commit hygiene
• Curiosity and adaptability - you pick up new patterns and tools fast, get comfortable with ambiguity, and don't need a detailed spec to get started
• A growth mindset that translates into action - you actively seek feedback, ask to pair on hard problems, and take on work that stretches you rather than work you already know how to do
• Ownership instincts - when you build something, you care about whether it works in production, not just whether it passes review
• Collaborative communication - you can give direct, useful code review feedback, explain a technical decision to a non‑technical stakeholder, and ask to pair on a hard problem rather than spin on it alone

• Prior experience in a full‑stack SaaS product environment with end‑to‑end delivery ownership - you've seen a feature from requirements through production operation and care about what happens after deployment
• You've shipped something using AI‑generated scaffolding, contributed to a shared prompt library, or helped a teammate adopt agentic workflows - you've moved the team forward, not just yourself
• Exposure to Domain‑Driven Design or structured architecture…