Software Engineer

Summary

Candid is a nonprofit that provides comprehensive data and insights about the social sector. They are seeking a Mid-Level Software Engineer to build engaging user interfaces and dynamic web applications using React, while also developing C#/.NET web APIs. This full stack role emphasizes collaboration within a cross-functional team to ensure robust data interactions primarily in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality, accessible user interfaces and dynamic web applications using React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, applying web accessibility standards
• Develop and maintain the C#/.NET web APIs that power those front-end experiences, ensuring code quality, security, and scalability
• Own combined work that spans both the UI and its supporting APIs, delivering features end to end
• Test your work for functionality, accessibility, and SEO, writing clean, cohesive, semantic, well-tested code and applying object-oriented principles to improve application architecture and design
• Work primarily within AWS (and occasionally Microsoft Azure) to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot solutions
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle: requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment
• Use AI tools such as Claude (claude.ai, Cowork, and Claude Code) to accelerate development, improve code quality, and work more efficiently as part of your day-to-day engineering practice
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternative approaches and technologies across the full stack
• Work within a cross-functional product team operating under the Product Operating Model, collaborating with product management and design to deliver outcomes that solve real customer problems
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production system reliability and respond to critical incidents as needed
• Travel to the all-staff gatherings that happen up to twice per year; attendance is expected unless an unavoidable situation arises
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned

Skills

• 3+ years of professional software development experience building full stack web applications
• Strong front-end skills with React, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and a solid grasp of web accessibility standards
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining web APIs with C#/.NET or another web API framework
• Ability to work end to end across both the UI and its supporting APIs
• Proficiency with Git and version control workflows
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated build and deployment practices
• Tests work for functionality, accessibility, and SEO; writes well-designed, testable, efficient code and applies object-oriented principles
• Ability to document requirements and specifications, and to communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Proactive self-starter, results-oriented, with strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Flexible and adaptable, with an aptitude and appetite for learning new technologies quickly
• College degree strongly preferred; equivalent experience will also be considered
• Willingness to perform other duties and special projects as needed/requested
• Sensitivity and respect for racial, gender, sexual orientation, and cultural differences
• Commitment to Candid's values: driven, direct, accessible, curious, and inclusive
• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Experience with cloud services, primarily AWS (Microsoft Azure a plus)
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude in a development workflow
• Experience working with UX designers as part of their development workflow

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years of professional software development experience building full stack web applications
• Strong front-end skills with React, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and a solid grasp of web accessibility standards
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining web APIs with C#/.NET or another web API framework
• Ability to work end to end across both the UI and its supporting APIs
• Proficiency with Git and version control workflows
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated build and deployment practices
• Tests work for functionality, accessibility, and SEO; writes well-designed, testable, efficient code and applies object-oriented principles
• Ability to document requirements and specifications, and to communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Proactive self-starter, results-oriented, with strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Flexible and adaptable, with an aptitude and appetite for learning new technologies quickly
• College degree strongly preferred; equivalent experience will also be considered
• Willingness to perform other duties and special projects as needed/requested
• Sensitivity and respect for racial, gender, sexual orientation, and cultural differences
• Commitment to Candid's values: driven, direct, accessible, curious, and inclusive

Nice to Haves

• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Experience with cloud services, primarily AWS (Microsoft Azure a plus)
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude in a development workflow
• Experience working with UX designers as part of their development workflow

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Retirement contribution with additional option for a match
• Paid life insurance and AD&D
• Paid leave time (PTO, compassionate leave, volunteer, holiday, parental)
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pre-tax transit
• Flexible spending accounts
• Supplemental insurance
• Summer hours
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program eligible employer