About Kind

Kind Systems is a consultancy focused on CivicTech, LegalTech, and SaaS. We are a fully remote team of software engineers, product folks, and consultants who bring cross-functional skills to solve impactful governmental and societal problems in a pragmatic way.

Our engineers take the time to understand our client's needs and the problems they are trying to solve. We thrive in being in the solution space with the client, not just building features. We also understand that how people and business processes are affected is often more important than our technology decisions.

We lean towards highly productive tech stacks so that we can focus on iterating to solve the problems of our clients and the people they serve. Today that stack includes Ruby, Rails + Hotwire, JavaScript/TypeScript, Spring Boot, Go, PostgreSQL, and ElasticSearch. We educate our clients on the characteristics of "great" software and how to keep their software "healthy".

Our team develops quality code by relying on good habits including building automated testing and deployment, writing documentation for ourselves and our clients, and keeping the security of the entire application and data top of mind. We coach, cross-train, and encourage each other through pull requests, pair programming, and internal demos. We are deliberate in being a team and spend time during the workday to have fun, teach others, and learn together.

About the role

As our engineering team grows, we are looking for Software Engineers with experience in building full-stack applications or APIs/backend systems and who are familiar with software engineering best practices. We don't expect our engineers to know every technology, but we are looking for people who are eager to learn new ones.

Software Engineers are client-facing along with Engineering Leads and Principal Consultants. We're looking for folks who can work successfully with clients and teammates to clarify requirements, create estimates, and implement the solution. Ideal candidates will be able to draw from previous experience and research to create appropriate solutions to client challenges.

Desired Skill Set

• 3-4 years of experience in software development with an ability to autonomously design complex components and features
• Ability to write code that is clear to humans while still being correct and efficient
• Hands-on production experience with at least one of the following:
  • API or general-purpose frameworks like Spring Boot, Flask
  • MVC frameworks like Rails, Django, Phoenix
• Experience with test-driven development and with tools like JUnit, Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright
• Experience with Java build tools such as Gradle, Maven
• Experience with modern cloud databases, such as AWS RDS, PostgreSQL
• Experience with deployment methodologies and CI/CD
• Experience with ORM tools like JPA, Hibernate a plus
• Experience with AWS and Docker a plus

Work Eligibility (Government Clients)

• Must have lived in the United States for at least three (3) of the past five (5) years.
• U.S. citizenship or an active green card is required. We are not sponsoring work visas at this time.
• Some positions for client projects have specific requirements including U.S. Citizenship, Public Trust background checks, or security clearance depending on the client or government agency.

Submit your application by clicking on this link: Apply here!