Who we are:

Mirza is redefining how employees provide for their families, pioneering benefits enablement and identity management services to connect frontline workers with more than $140B in available government dollars. In less than four years, we have brought a first-of-its-kind product to market and established partnerships with category-leading Fortune 500 companies. Our flagship benefits eligibility SaaS platform, launched in Fall 2023, tackles one of the biggest barriers for working parents – childcare affordability. And we’re just getting started!

About the role:

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Mirza, you’ll be an influential member of our product and engineering team, leading R&D investigations into candidate product and technology applications, building new products from 0 to 1, and working with an interested and inspired team to continuously enhance and scale our category-defining platform and the systems that support it. You’ll collaborate closely with fellow engineers, product managers, sales and operations leaders to tackle real business, technology and customer-facing problems that will have a direct, and highly visible, impact on the success of Mirza’s products and the families that depend on them.

**This is a hands-on software engineering role. You will join a small team of experienced engineers that are interested in the “why”, care about quality, and love to ship products. 

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to a fast-moving engineering team that prioritizes impact and shipping real-world solutions

• Collaborate with passion to solve complex problems through technology

• Provide technical leadership and influence system design, tool selection, and development practices

• Communicate clearly to drive decisions and inspire action

• Raise the bar on code quality, testing, deployment, and mentorship

• Bring new skills, perspectives, and ideas to help grow and strengthen our R&D team

What we’re looking for:

• 8+ years of experience building customer-facing software (startup experience a plus)

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

• Strong object-oriented programming skills and focus on technical excellence

• Pragmatic and innovative in making technical decisions to maximize ROI and manage trade-offs

• Skilled at breaking down business problems and communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Able to evaluate and explain solution trade-offs aligned with business and user goals

• Experience mentoring and pairing with developers to elevate team performance

• Familiarity with our stack: Node, TypeScript, React, Terraform, GitHub Actions, AWS (preferred, not required)

• Knowledge of cloud-native development, modern DevOps, and security best practices

• Proven ability to design and build efficient APIs and microservice

• Experience scaling apps using containers and orchestration frameworks

• Leadership or mentorship experience on remote development teams

• Experience building and deploying 12-factor apps in team environments

• Defined SLOs/SLAs and monitoring thresholds for reliability and alerting

• Familiar with technical governance and policy enforcement practices

Bonus stuff:

• Led distributed system design and developer platform initiatives

• Experience building workflow automation with n8n and LLMs

• Built document processing systems at commercial scale using:

• OCR, document libraries, data mapping, RPA, AI, templating, and scripting

• Experience automating:

• Eligibility checks

• Identity verification

• Fraud detection

• Experience integrating with:

• HRIS or payroll systems

• Legal research platforms

• Identity verification services

*We are not expecting you to be an expert in everything described above. If you check a handful of the boxes, and are ready to roll up your sleeves and learn, we’d love to hear from you.

What you can expect from us

• Salary $120,000 - $180,000 depending on experience and location, plus share options

• Paid parental leave

• Flexible hours and remote working options

• Flexible holiday policy

• Inclusion and diversity - in that order, period. We’re a company started by two female founders, and we believe in being able to bring our full selves to work. We’ve worked hard to establish our culture with our global team, where the culture fits the person. We look for “culture adds,” not  “cultural fit” or expecting people to adapt to us.

• Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

• Work remotely:

• Full time remote, US

To Apply

If you’re passionate about building a company on a mission, email careers@heymirza.com with:

• A cover letter

• Your CV

• Interview availability in the next 7 days

We’ll be in touch to schedule an interview!

Please note, applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship at this time.