Software Engineer II

About The Role & You

The Software Engineer II takes on a broad scope of responsibility to deliver key solutions for customers and the company. They demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring peers, demonstrating design skills, conducting thoughtful code reviews, and successfully delivering key customer-impacting features with successful outcomes.

In this role, you will begin to see and influence the bigger picture by making design and implementation decisions that balance immediate needs with long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

Software engineering is changing rapidly with AI, and our team has embraced this technology to improve velocity, increase test coverage, and produce more readable, documented code. We expect any candidate to have a solid understanding of AI software engineering tools, and experience applying them as a force multiplier.

What You Will Do

Implement and Evolve Best Practices

Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while continually improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes. Elevate the team's technical output by conducting high-quality code reviews that provide constructive feedback and reinforce best practices. Apply design patterns and architectural principles to build scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Additionally, identify opportunities for refactoring, reducing technical debt, and enhancing processes to drive long-term efficiency and quality.

Act as a Technologist and Mentor

Drive medium-sized projects from design to deployment with limited guidance, applying strong technical judgment to deliver solutions that are both efficient and reliable. Contribute to the team's technical direction by breaking down complex problems into manageable components and collaborating on clear, effective solutions. Act as a mentor by sharing best practices, offering constructive feedback, and fostering a culture of learning that helps grow the team's collective skills and capabilities. Consistently balance the need for timely delivery with maintaining high standards of code quality and long-term system health.

Deliver Value with Broader Impact

Partner with stakeholders-including product managers, designers, account managers, and support teams-to translate needs into well-scoped, impactful engineering solutions. Anticipate the downstream effects of technical decisions to ensure solutions align with business goals and overall product direction. Additionally, contribute to defining technical roadmaps while identifying potential risks and opportunities for innovation that strengthen long-term success.

Skills and Experience

Professional Qualifications

• ASP.NET MVC, .NET, C#, MSSQL, React, Javascript, jQuery, HTML/CSS, Azure, DevOps. Leverage AI as a productivity multiplier to solve business problems and improve internal processes.
• Solid problem-solving and debugging skills, with the ability to tackle more complex and ambiguous issues.
• Proficiency in software development best practices, including SOLID principles, design patterns, and testing strategies.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining end-to-end features or services of moderate complexity.
• Familiarity with system architecture concepts and ability to articulate trade-offs.Prior experience mentoring peers and sharing knowledge and best practices to strengthen team capabilities.

Personal Qualifications

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to work independently on larger scopes.
• Proactive communicator who ensures alignment across team members and stakeholders.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities, including empathy, patience, and clarity when mentoring or reviewing code.
• Curious and forward-looking-consistently seeking ways to improve systems, processes, and team practices.

Compensation

This role pays a market-competitive base salary and is eligible to participate in the company's annual bonus plan.

You may also be eligible for our equity incentive program that awards high-performing employees on an annual basis. These option grants are awarded at the CEO's discretion to acknowledge employees who have made significant contributions to achieving our goals.

Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Time Off: You know yourself best, so we trust you to take the time you need to maintain a rewarding work/life balance.
• Group Health, Dental, and Vision Plan: PublicInput offers a company-subsidized healthcare plan for employees, covering up to 100% of your premiums or up to $800 monthly for you and your dependents. We also have options to add Dental, Vision, Life, and other benefit coverages for the employee and their family.
• $1,000 HSA Contribution: PublicInput will contribute $1,000 annually (spread over each month) to an employee’s Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Pre-tax 401k: The company provides access to make pre-tax contributions to a 401k program.

Company Culture

Our offices are based out of Raleigh Founded in the Glenwood South neighborhood of Downtown Raleigh. We're fortunate to be surrounded by fellow social entrepreneurs and high-growth companies. Glenwood South contains a multitude of restaurants, bars, unique shops and art galleries.

The Legal Bits

PublicInput is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

As a condition of employment, you are required to sign and comply with an Employee Confidential Information Invention Assignment Agreement that requires, among other provisions, the assignment of rights to any invention made during your employment at the Company, and non-disclosure of Company proprietary information.

All company offers are contingent upon the completion of a criminal background check. Your employment is at-will and either you or we may terminate your employment at any time, with or without notice.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

PublicInput celebrates all people and is committed to working actively towards equity and accessibility for everyone. 

We believe society is strongest when everyone is listened to, respected, valued, and able to contribute to the decision-making process, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, national origin, religious faith, disability status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

We seek talented individuals whose skills and experiences can help us transform the way government and communities work together.

We are committed to a nondiscriminatory approach and provide equal opportunity for employment and advancement in all areas of our company.