Linq
Staff Software Engineer
Denver, Colorado · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$160kDetected 13 days ago
TypeScriptC#SwiftKotlinReactAngularReact NativeiOSAndroid.NETFull-Stack DevelopmentGitSQLCI/CDAgileUnityLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- This is a mobile-first role: your primary responsibility and the majority of your time will be spent in that flagship mobile app.
- Beyond your home product, you'll be the company's senior-most technical voice for mobile engineering.
- Company-Wide Mobile Authority: Act as LINQ's go-to mobile expert across the company's ecosystem of native apps - establishing and evangelizing shared mobile engineering standards, patterns, and best practices wherever mobile development happens.
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust, scalable, secure features in our flagship mobile app (React Native, iOS + Android), owning the hardest and most ambiguous mobile technical problems.
- Set and maintain mobile engineering standards company-wide: architecture patterns, code quality practices, testing strategy, CI/CD, release/versioning process, app store submission and compliance, and crash/performance monitoring.
- Provide technical leadership to contractor engineers working on mobile: reviewing designs and code, mentoring on React Native and native iOS/Android practices, and making sure contractor work aligns with LINQ's architecture and standards.
- Contribute to the companion web application and backend API as needed - enough to ship cross-stack features and represent mobile constraints/needs in web and backend design discussions.
- Influence LINQ's broader technical roadmap and strategy as it relates to mobile, partnering with engineering leadership, product, and other technical leads.
- Proven, production-grade experience building and shipping React Native applications (iOS + Android) at scale.
- They know they can count on us to not only anticipate their needs but to deliver the right answer every time.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, with substantial depth in mobile application development.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent working experience.
- Real, hands-on native mobile development experience - Swift/Xcode for iOS and/or Kotlin/Android Studio for Android - not just cross-platform (React Native) experience.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript for cross-platform mobile development.
- Experience owning mobile CI/CD, release processes, and app store submission/compliance (Apple App Store and Google Play).
- Experience with Git for version control and working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, contractors, and leadership.
- Ability to describe, present, and influence architectural decisions across teams.
- Experience contributing to Angular-based web applications.
- Familiarity with C#/.NET, or general comfort navigating and contributing to backend/API codebases.
Skills
- Diverse skills, ideas, and perspectives are our strength.
Compensation
- We offer a competitive base annual salary of 150,000-$160,000 plus a 15% bonus.
- 💰 Planning Your Future: Our 401(k) plan comes with a 4% employer match on total earnings (not just your base salary).
- LINQ is trusted by 30% of school districts across the U.S. to help them operate more efficiently and serve over 1 billion meals to 17 million students annually, process payroll for 364,000 educators, administrators, and staff, and engage with millions of families through the free LINQ Connect app.
Benefits
- Mentor engineers at all levels on mobile development, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Whether it's a company bonus or target sales commission, your hard work doesn't go unnoticed.
- Our flexible Open Paid Time Off Plan lets you take the time you need, when you need it.
- Own production health for the mobile app: monitoring, crash triage, release quality, and app store standing.
- 👶 Paid Parental Leave: Take the time you need to welcome your new addition - We've got you covered!
Company info
- We're a high-growth software company with a big mission: empowering K-12 district teams to do more with less.
- At LINQ, we get K12. That's why we help districts transform K-12 school operations with best-in-class, cloud-based software solutions built to help districts return more resources to classrooms. Integrating finance, HR, nutrition management, and payments into a single, secure platform, LINQ reduces administrative burden. LINQ is trusted by 30% of school districts across the U.S. to help them operate more efficiently and serve over 1 billion meals to 17 million students annually, process payroll for 364,000 educators, administrators, and staff, and engage with millions of families through the free LINQ Connect app.
- Our team? They're talented, committed, and fiercely loyal problem-solvers. At LINQ, you'll find challenging and meaningful work, a team that respects and uplifts one another, and a commitment to constant improvement. Our customers love us because we're attentive, patient, communicative, and solutions focused. They know they can count on us to not only anticipate their needs but to deliver the right answer every time.
- LINQ's Values:
- Act as LINQ's go-to mobile expert across the company's ecosystem of native apps - establishing and evangelizing shared mobile engineering standards, patterns, and best practices wherever mobile development happens.
- architecture patterns, code quality practices, testing strategy, CI/CD, release/versioning process, app store submission and compliance, and crash/performance monitoring.
- At LINQ, we get K12.
- That's why we help districts transform K-12 school operations with best-in-class, cloud-based software solutions built to help districts return more resources to classrooms.
- Integrating finance, HR, nutrition management, and payments into a single, secure platform, LINQ reduces administrative burden.
- LINQ is trusted by 30% of school districts across the U.S. to help them operate more efficiently and serve over 1 billion meals to 17 million students annually, process payroll for 364,000 educators, administrators, and staff, and engage with millions of families through the free LINQ Connect app.
- They're talented, committed, and fiercely loyal problem-solvers.
- At LINQ, you'll find challenging and meaningful work, a team that respects and uplifts one another, and a commitment to constant improvement.
- Our customers love us because we're attentive, patient, communicative, and solutions focused.
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