Job Description

Location

Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA

Role Type

Full-time

Compensation

$159,650

Visa Sponsorship

Not available

Hires remotely in

United States

Experience

4+ years

About Recidiviz

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. Using software tools and thoughtful product design, we've been able to safely and permanently reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side-by-side with leaders of the criminal justice system, people in prison and on supervision, and ecosystem partners to build a better path forward. In addition to the revenue we earn from state partners, some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations support our work.

About The Role

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Senior Software Engineer Backend to join our team! We're a small, fast-moving group that develops and maintains the data platform that powers Recidiviz's work and impact among criminal justice agencies. That's where you come in. We're looking for someone with strong technical design instincts, comfort working on features that span across multiple sub-systems, a willingness to dive into tough problems and diverse data, and a collaborative and kind nature.

Core responsibilities

• Expand our data platform, empowering us to scale across the entire country, in all phases of the criminal justice system
• Work with our engineering and data team members to build testable and maintainable features from end to end
• Collaborate with teammates in our state-facing roles to ensure our work is scalable across all states
• Ensure the long-term health of our engineering organization by maintaining high bars for security, privacy, operations, quality, documentation, and testing

Wild success

• Accelerating the work of state teams Your work on the data platform, and your role in supporting the state teams have significantly increased the amount that those teams can accomplish.
• Uplevel the engineering team Your contributions to our engineering culture and processes, as well as your support for your teammates, has helped set our team up to achieve more impact sooner.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of practical experience building production software in a collaborative environment
• Experience in a cross-functional setting, capable of working closely with Product Management, Design, and Data Science
• Professional work experience writing code in Python, or in another general purpose language and are excited to learn Python
• A desire to wear many hats and make contributions across our technical stack, in many areas of our organization
• Comfort working directly with deployed systems to ensure high uptime, secure configuration, and rapid development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing large-scale data processing systems, working closely with a data model representing some real-world domain
• Familiarity with our technical stack would be a plus, including Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Apache Airflow, Apache Beam

Compensation details

Compensation is standardized based on roles and responsibilities. As such, we do not negotiate compensation offers. The compensation for this role is: $159,650.

What we offer

• Effective, extremely thoughtful colleagues, working together on a mission that matters
• 90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based on location)
• Partnership with Carrot to provide employees with inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits, as well as a small but growing number of hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits
• Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness
• Free mental health support via Talkspace
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

EEO and Inclusion Statement

An important note: Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look you might be great for another role or another time!

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