Software Engineer (Workbench Core, Full Stack)

Are you passionate about making it easier for developers to do what they love? Are you also excited about deep diving into platforms to understand bottlenecks so you can tackle performance and stability issues? Do you take pride in building software that helps people work smarter, not harder? If you’re a problem-solver who loves working across the full stack, we want to hear from you!

At Expel, we’re looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our Workbench Core team. In this role, you’ll help shape and maintain the platform architecture supporting Expel’s Workbench Product. Your work will be essential to ensuring internal product teams can produce clean, secure, and sustainable solutions at scale by delivering the tools, guidance, and platform-level features they need.

You’ll collaborate closely with your team and work with partners from User Experience, Quality, Core Engineering, and Product Security to break down complex problems and deliver innovative solutions. Your back-end and front-end skills will be key as you bring features to life and ensure our systems run reliably and efficiently.

Success in this role means:

• Building high-quality, scalable software that meets both business and technical goals.
• Ensuring the platform is reliable, fast, and intuitive for our users.
• Being an active participant in our culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Our team values being actively inclusive and supportive, innovation through rapid iteration, and intelligent execution over heroics.

What Expel can do for you

• Provide you with opportunities to tackle real-world challenges, working on a platform that directly impacts both our customers and internal teams.
• Support your growth as an engineer by offering mentorship, resources for professional development, and the chance to work with modern technologies like React, Typescript, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Postgres, and Node.
• Expose you to the exciting world of cybersecurity, giving you insights into how data helps safeguard customers and drives strategic decision-making.
• Encourage your continuous learning through access to conferences, training programs, and certifications.

What you can do for Expel

• Build and maintain high-quality features that improve the developer experience and efficiency of engineers working on the Workbench product.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like User Experience, Quality, and Core Engineering to deliver features that are scalable, reliable, and intuitive.
• Contribute to the performance and scalability of the platform, ensuring it’s customizable, self-service, and meets the demands of our users.
• Help troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely manner, improving the reliability and performance of the system.
• Continuously improve your skills and bring fresh ideas to the table, supporting a culture of learning, innovation, and collaboration.

What you should bring with you

• 3+ years of experience in full-stack development, with hands-on experience building both back-end systems and front-end applications.
• Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks and experience building user-facing web applications. Experience with React, Typescript, or Design Systems is a plus.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (such as JavaScript, Python, or Go) and a desire to continuously improve your technical skills.
• A basic understanding of databases (like PostgreSQL) and how to work with data for reporting and insights.
• A collaborative attitude—you enjoy working closely with others across teams to solve problems and bring new features to life.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a passion for finding efficient, reliable solutions to complex challenges.
• A commitment to quality—you write clean, maintainable code and are eager to follow best practices like testing and code reviews.

How we run teams

We build and run teams where everyone is pulling in the same direction and is learning from each other:

• We work out of a shared backlog
• We peer-review everything
• We pair-program when it makes sense
• We do blame-free retros to reinforce what’s going well, so we do more of it, and surface what’s not, so we can do something about it

Additional notes

Pay range: $118,400 USD to $171,700 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.

We believe in paying transparently and equitably. Your salary will ultimately be based on factors such as your experience, skills, team equity, and market data. You’ll also be eligible for unlimited PTO (which we model and encourage), work location flexibility, up to 24 weeks of parental leave, and really excellent health benefits.

We're only hiring those authorized to work in the United States.

We're an Equal Opportunity Employer: You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

We’ll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please let us know if you need accommodation of any kind.

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