Emergent Software

Lead architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, and scale product systems in a fully remote environment. | 8+ years software engineering experience with leadership, deep TypeScript and full-stack expertise, and strong system design and reliability skills. | This is a fully remote, direct-hire position with our client. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without current or future sponsorship. We're partnering with a fully remote, fast-growing software company to hire a Staff Product Engineer. This is a new, highly visible role where you'll work directly with the CTO, product leadership, and a distributed engineering team to shape architecture, scale the product, and grow the company's internal engineering capabilities. You'll stay hands-on while setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar for the team around you. The culture values action, thoughtful experimentation, candid feedback, and world-class work. The team builds using Shape Up rather than Agile or Scrum. Work is organized around clearly defined problems instead of sprint ceremonies, and engineers are trusted to find the best path forward, adapt as they learn, and own the outcome. Tech Environment • Typescript • React • Next.js • Node.js • PostgreSQL • Full-stack monolith architecture • Automated preview deployments with mocked services and isolated, production-like data • Event-driven and asynchronous systems • Workflow tools such as Kafka, Temporal, or Inngest • AI-assisted development and workflow automation Responsibilities Architecture and Technical Direction • Own the architecture and design of complex, mission-critical systems across the full stack. • Partner with the CTO to define and execute the long-term engineering strategy. • Translate business strategy into practical technical roadmaps, and respectfully push back when there's a better approach. • Guide data modeling and system design with a focus on scalability, security, and long-term maintainability. Reliability and Automation • Strengthen reliability through monitoring, service-level objectives, incident response, and blameless postmortems with measurable follow-through. • Turn manual work (deployments, data fixes, reporting, reviews, documentation) into automated, scalable systems. • Ensure systems meet security, privacy, audit, and compliance requirements for sensitive data. Leadership • Set engineering standards and lead design and code reviews without becoming a bottleneck. • Mentor engineers to grow their technical judgment, ownership, and problem-solving. • Take on cross-functional technical challenges that lack a clear owner and drive them to completion. • Build alignment across U.S. and international engineering teams, and represent engineering with product and executive leadership. Qualifications • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time as a Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leader. • Experience in a startup or growth-stage environment where you owned outcomes, not just assigned work. • Deep expertise in TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. • Strong database fundamentals: schema design, transactions, locking, query performance, and data integrity. • A track record of designing and supporting business-critical systems such as workflows, integrations, financial transactions, or sensitive data. • Experience making major architecture decisions and clearly explaining the trade-offs. • Experience scaling a product as customers, markets, and requirements expand. • Solid grounding in reliability, monitoring, and incident response. • Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex ideas to non-technical audiences. • A thoughtful approach to AI tools that boosts productivity without sacrificing ownership, oversight, or quality. • Comfort operating with high autonomy and ownership outside a traditional Agile or Scrum framework. Nice to Have Skills • Event-driven, asynchronous, or workflow-heavy systems (Kafka, Temporal, Inngest, or similar) • Scaling software across multiple markets or jurisdictions • Regulated or compliance-focused environments • Helping an organization move from outsourced engineering to a strong in-house team • Building internal platforms or developer productivity tooling • Prior experience with Shape Up Our Vetting Process At Emergent Staffing, we work hard to find the software engineers who are the right fit for our clients. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position: • Application (5 minutes) • Online Assessment (40-60 minutes) • Initial Video Interview (30-45 minutes) • Client On-site Interview (60 minutes) • Job Offer! #EmergentStaffing #IND22

Lead architecture and design of complex full-stack systems and mentor engineering teams. | Requires 8+ years experience including staff-level leadership, deep TypeScript and full-stack expertise, and strong system design and reliability skills. | Job Description: • Own the architecture and design of complex, mission-critical systems across the full stack • Partner with the CTO to define and execute long-term engineering strategy • Translate business strategy into practical technical roadmaps and challenge approaches when appropriate • Guide data modeling and system design for scalability, security, and maintainability • Strengthen reliability through monitoring, service-level objectives, incident response, and blameless postmortems • Automate manual work including deployments, data fixes, reporting, reviews, and documentation • Ensure systems meet security, privacy, audit, and compliance requirements for sensitive data • Set engineering standards and lead design and code reviews • Mentor engineers and develop their technical judgment, ownership, and problem-solving • Drive cross-functional technical challenges to completion • Build alignment across U.S. and international engineering teams and represent engineering with product and executive leadership Requirements: • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time as a Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leader • Experience in a startup or growth-stage environment where you owned outcomes, not just assigned work • Deep expertise in TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL • Strong database fundamentals: schema design, transactions, locking, query performance, and data integrity • Track record of designing and supporting business-critical systems such as workflows, integrations, financial transactions, or sensitive data • Experience making major architecture decisions and clearly explaining trade-offs • Experience scaling a product as customers, markets, and requirements expand • Solid grounding in reliability, monitoring, and incident response • Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining complex ideas to non-technical audiences • Thoughtful approach to AI tools that boosts productivity without sacrificing ownership, oversight, or quality • Comfort operating with high autonomy and ownership outside a traditional Agile or Scrum framework • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship Benefits:

Own quality assurance for complex web applications through test planning, execution, and collaboration with developers and clients. | Experience in agile QA roles, test planning, automation judgment, strong communication, and technical understanding of web and API systems. | ** This is an opportunity to join our team of top-notch engineers, including software developers, architects, and quality assurance engineers. This position is 100% remote, indefinitely. ** Emergent Software is looking for a Senior Software QA Engineer who is smart, passionate, and efficient. You'll own quality on complex, data-driven, web-based applications and websites, working closely with developers, product owners, and clients throughout each project. This role is a great fit for self-starters with strong communication skills, solid work ethic, and the ability to take part in every stage of the agile software development life cycle. Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software • Work closely with other talented engineers and team members. Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about. • Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want • Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or whenever you work best • Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work! • Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with software solutions. • 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development. We invest in your growth! • Grow your career without leaving the tech track. At Emergent Software, deep technical expertise is valued as much as leadership, with clear career paths for those who want to stay hands-on, no management transition required. • Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful • Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave Primary Duties • Build test coverage that matches project risk, and communicate coverage decisions and tradeoffs to the team and client. • Take part in backlog refinement and story shaping, helping the team write testable acceptance criteria before development starts. • Plan test cases for user stories and features with the agile team. • Partner with developers throughout each sprint to catch issues early, reproduce defects clearly, and resolve them together rather than just handing them off. • Perform hands-on testing against acceptance criteria throughout each project. • Coordinate regression testing and scheduled client testing, using automation where it makes sense and earns its cost. • Keep quality status visible and current, so leads, product owners, and clients can see where things stand without having to ask. • Evaluate mid-project changes for testing impact. • Estimate QA effort for upcoming work, track your time accurately, and flag it early if test coverage and budget are in conflict. • Help improve our QA processes, making them more efficient and reliable. • Explore and apply AI-assisted testing tools and techniques, and bring what works back to the team in a usable way. • Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) directly with clients, explaining quality status and risk in terms non-technical stakeholders understand. • Other related duties as assigned. Qualifications • Experience on an agile development team as a Quality Engineer, owning test strategy and execution across the full project lifecycle. • Judgment about where automation adds value and where hands-on testing is the better investment. • Experience writing comprehensive test plans and test cases, and adapting coverage as requirements change. • A solid understanding of how websites, web applications, APIs, databases, mobile apps, Windows apps, and the cloud work at a high level. • Ability to support multiple client projects at once, from embedded, sprint-based testing on active builds to lighter regression coverage on maintenance work. • Experience working within scoped budgets or billable-hours environments, with good judgment on where to prioritize testing effort. • Strong attention to detail, and the ability to work with teammates to find practical solutions to quality issues. • Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills. Nice to Have Experience • Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or other agile work tools. • Experience using AI to speed up test design, test data generation, or defect analysis. • Test automation experience, particularly with Playwright. • Experience planning tests for large projects. • Previous consulting experience, independent or with a firm. • Microsoft stack technologies, such as C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure. • Content management systems, such as Umbraco. • Software development experience. Our Vetting Process At Emergent Software, we work hard to find the best Quality Assurance Engineers capable of helping to deliver high quality software for our clients. If you think you’re one of those, please understand that the effort put into this by people like yourself helps us be successful in surrounding you with other top-notch engineers. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position: • Application (5 minutes) • Online Assessment (30-40 minutes) • Website Testing Challenge (60 minutes) • Initial Phone Interview (30-45 minutes) • Final Interview (60-90 minutes) • Job Offer! Benefits Package Details • Medical Insurance: up to 84% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available) • HSA Contribution: up to $200/month • Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs • 401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary • Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly • Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week • Employee referral & customer referral bonuses • Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs • Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks • Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month • Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k • PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays • Paid parental leave • Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs About Emergent Software Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development and consulting company serving clients across the country and beyond. We are building a team of talented software developers, database architects, UX designers, quality engineers, and project managers capable of developing high quality custom software services for our clients. We are a remote-first company From our inception, we offered a remote-friendly culture supporting work flexibility beyond the norm. When the pandemic of 2020 hit, all we had to do was clean out the fridge and the shift to working fully remote began. Seeing this as an opportunity, we shifted to being a remote-first company and hiring people from anywhere. We still offer that Minnesota-nice, Midwest friendly attitude but now with people all over treated the same whether they know what the skyway system is or not. Your career grows with us Working with talented engineers on interesting projects makes this an engaging work environment for people passionate about software development. Learning by working directly with our experienced team, utilizing our staff development program, and solving complex problems on a variety of projects provide ample long-term career development opportunities. At Emergent Software, your ideas will be heard, you will grow exponentially as a master of your craft, and you will enjoy working other dedicated team members to deliver software solutions for our clients. Check out what others say Check us out on Glassdoor to see how employees enjoy our remote working structure, flexible hours, profit sharing program, and more! #EmergentSoftware #IND1