Senior Software Engineer

About this role

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Location: 100% Remote - anywhere in the Continental U.S.
Salary: $143,000 - $151,709
Note: All advertised positions are salaried and full-time.

### About us

We are Friends From The City, a design and technology company focused on public impact and equity. We believe that inclusive design and accessible technology are essential to a just society. Every person we hire brings a distinct perspective, and we celebrate that.

Our mission is to make digital interactions with the government simple, intuitive, and accessible. That means removing barriers like confusing user flows, inaccessible content, or language limitations that prevent people from getting what they need.

We use human-centered design, thoughtful research, and well-crafted, reliable code to build digital products that work for everyone.

### Why this role exists

Somewhere in a state government office right now, a staff member is processing a student's financial-aid application by hand, pulling pieces of that student's record out of a 1970s-era mainframe, a SQL Server database, a Microsoft Access file, and a shared network drive, then re-keying it all into yet another screen. Multiply that by roughly 440,000 applications a year, for about a billion dollars of aid that families are counting on, and you have the problem we're hired to fix.

You'll help build the consolidated, modern portal that replaces that patchwork, work that decides whether a parent finds out about their kid's tuition aid in days instead of weeks. This is public-interest engineering with a real person on the other end of every API call.

### Requirements

### The work you'll actually do

The system of record is a DB2 mainframe, with more data spread across Microsoft SQL Server and older stores. We're standing up a cloud-native .NET (C#) application (three-tier, microservices, containers, REST APIs, running in a government cloud tenant) *alongside* the legacy...