Staff Software Engineer at Guild

At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors.

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If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board. 

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• Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
• Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company

Guild is hiring a Staff Software Engineer. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will use your expertise in modern software solutions. Moreover, you will use your passion for writing clean, well-tested, and reusable code to promote a culture of building high quality software that will scale efficiently with our continued business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise technical leadership across the organization to balance best practices and deliver on business objectives, including the effective use of AI/ML technologies, for shared understanding and success.
• Guide squads to design, build, and maintain services that are resilient, meets customer needs and easy to maintain
• Mentor engineers across the pillar to write code that is understandable, testable, and adhering to best practices with an accessible developer experience
• Provide guidance to squads and leaders on the cost to run and maintain solutions
• Connects efforts across pillar engineering efforts to share knowledge, provide feedback, and surface concerns and struggles to help chart future pillar goals.
• Proactively builds expertise in evolving technology to propose and drive innovative solutions, helping to manage the relationship between new and legacy systems
• Understands strategic technical directives and takes initiative to drive efforts that align with and advance these priorities, ensuring consistency and focus across technical implementations
• Supportive of 1-2 squads and highly collaborative as a staff team within pillar
• Develop understanding of cross-pillar, department and business concerns
• Drive continuous exploration of emerging AI/ML technologies, pilot innovative tools and techniques, and elevate organizational expertise through hands-on training and knowledge sharing.

Experience

• Expertise in the design and deployment of scalable AI solutions, delivering real business results through it’s application
• Expertise in execution & delivery by defining clear goals, removing blockers, and driving projects to completion.
• Expertise in providing technical leadership across organization to balance best practices and delivering on business objectives for shared understanding and success
• Expertise in building POCs to prove out new technologies and patterns that help ensure scalability, responsiveness, and performance across our services
• Understanding of  all aspects of the development lifecycle, from gathering technical requirements and choosing technology to deploying a solution in production
• Able to design and build software solutions using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Python, Node.js, Typescript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL
• Able to work closely with product and external teams on complex business problems, leading engineering efforts and taking accountability across multiple teams and partners

At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own. 

Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others. 

Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
   
  

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