Focused Energy (focused-energy.co)

Focused Energy (focused-energy.co)

Senior Software Engineer

Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior

No sponsorship$120k-$175kDetected 9 days ago
SwiftKotliniOSAndroidSwiftUIJetpack ComposeBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCI/CDAgentic AIResearchMentoring

About the role

  • We work with a variety of clients from different industries, collaborating as we get new products to market, modernizing legacy systems, or helping teams learn the skills they need to be successful.
  • We take pride in delivering value, in communicating progress, and guiding our clients to success.
  • At Focused, our Engineers are both practitioners and experts in their craft.

Responsibilities

  • Paired with a teammate to build a native iOS feature using Swift and SwiftUI
  • Helped design an architecture that modernizes a legacy mobile app's data layer for offline-first support
  • Refactored a flaky test suite to support continuous delivery with confidence

Requirements

  • You're a hands-on, full stack engineer with a strong track record of delivering software in collaborative, agile environments.
  • You've worked across multiple languages or frameworks and have deep expertise in Swift and Kotlin.
  • You're as comfortable in the code as you are in a client meeting and can translate technical risks and wins into language anyone can understand.

Compensation

  • The Chicago base salary range for this role is $120,000 - $175,000.

Company info

  • At Focused, we move quickly to deliver quality software that achieves client outcomes and meets their customer's needs. We strategically partner with our clients to leverage our expertise in design and software, while our clients bring their own domain expertise. We work with a variety of clients from different industries, collaborating as we get new products to market, modernizing legacy systems, or helping teams learn the skills they need to be successful.
  • Our values:
  • Listen first
  • We are experts in product practices but life long learners in the domain of our customers. We research, collaborate, and understand.
  • Learn why
  • We ask questions and talk to users to understand problem spaces, objectives, and goals, which allows us to deeply invest and drive towards the outcomes of our clients.
  • Love your craft
  • We love diving into a variety of domains and solving problems. We take pride in delivering value, in communicating progress, and guiding our clients to success.
  • Writing lots of code
  • Lead teams through end-to-end delivery across the stack, from backend services to modern web UIs.
  • Pair program daily with teammates and clients to share knowledge, improve code quality, and grow together.
  • Practice TDD and continuous refactoring to ensure code is reliable, maintainable, and understandable.
  • Guide architecture decisions to support scalability, observability, and performance.
  • Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and stakeholders to continuously deliver valuable software.
  • At Focused, we move quickly to deliver quality software that achieves client outcomes and meets their customer's needs.
  • We strategically partner with our clients to leverage our expertise in design and software, while our clients bring their own domain expertise.
  • Listen first • We are experts in product practices but life long learners in the domain of our customers. We research, collaborate, and understand.
  • Learn why • We ask questions and talk to users to understand problem spaces, objectives, and goals, which allows us to deeply invest and drive towards the outcomes of our clients.
  • Love your craft • We love diving into a variety of domains and solving problems. We take pride in delivering value, in communicating progress, and guiding our clients to success.
  • This role would play a crucial role in shaping and implementing engineering best practices and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software projects.
  • With clients, we develop trust and influence - we are unintimidated and unintimidating.
  • With colleagues, we set the standard for how we deliver success for clients.
  • What would you be doing?
  • Coach developers on the team through pairing, mentoring, and modeling healthy engineering culture.
  • Influence technical direction beyond the team, working across client orgs and Focused's internal practices to share lessons, shape approaches, and raise the collective bar.
  • Stay curious through experimenting with new patterns in the GenAI space, share what works (and what doesn't), and help evolve how we build AI-powered software.
  • We are excited about you, because you:

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Focused is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of the employment Visa process at this time.
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