Staff Software Engineer

LINQ•Denver, CO

59d•$150,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

LINQ is a high-growth software company dedicated to empowering K-12 district teams. We provide cloud-based software solutions that integrate finance, HR, nutrition management, and payments into a single, secure platform, reducing administrative burden and returning resources to classrooms. LINQ is trusted by 30% of school districts in the U.S., serving millions of students and processing payroll for thousands of educators. Our team is composed of talented, committed problem-solvers who value challenging and meaningful work, mutual respect, and continuous improvement. We are attentive, patient, communicative, and solutions-focused, consistently anticipating and meeting customer needs. LINQ's Values include acting with integrity and building trust, delivering excellence by exceeding client expectations, embracing challenges with a growth mindset, and collaborating as one team with diverse skills and perspectives. You will be embedded in a product engineering team building a core LINQ product for parents/guardians and districts, focusing on a React Native mobile app for managing student accounts (payments, balances, transaction history, family/student management). This role also involves being the company's senior-most technical voice for mobile engineering across LINQ's ecosystem of native mobile applications, influencing architecture, tooling, and platform decisions.

Requirements

10+ years of professional software development experience, with substantial depth in mobile application development.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent working experience.
Proven, production-grade experience building and shipping React Native applications (iOS + Android) at scale.
Real, hands-on native mobile development experience — Swift/Xcode for iOS and/or Kotlin/Android Studio for Android — not just cross-platform (React Native) experience.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript for cross-platform mobile development.
Demonstrated ability to lead technically — setting architecture and direction, reviewing others’ work, and raising the bar for a team — including experience guiding contractors or engineers you don’t formally manage.
Experience owning mobile CI/CD, release processes, and app store submission/compliance (Apple App Store and Google Play).
Strong understanding of mobile app performance, stability, and production monitoring (crash reporting, analytics, remote config/feature flagging).
Experience with Git for version control and working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, contractors, and leadership.
Ability to describe, present, and influence architectural decisions across teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience contributing to Angular-based web applications.
Familiarity with C#/.NET, or general comfort navigating and contributing to backend/API codebases.
Experience with common mobile SDKs used in production consumer apps: feature flagging, crash/analytics monitoring, authentication providers, and in-app support/engagement tools.
Experience with localization/internationalization in a mobile app serving a multilingual user base.
Experience in fintech, payments, or another domain with strong security and compliance requirements.
Prior experience as a technical lead for distributed teams that include contractors, including cross-timezone collaboration.

Responsibilities

Own the architecture, technical direction, and quality bar for our flagship React Native mobile application.
Be the final technical voice on non-trivial mobile design decisions.
Act as LINQ’s go-to mobile expert across the company’s ecosystem of native apps, establishing and evangelizing shared mobile engineering standards, patterns, and best practices.
Provide day-to-day technical leadership to contractor engineers working in mobile codebases — setting direction, reviewing code, unblocking technical problems, and ensuring their work meets LINQ’s engineering bar.
Bring mobile-informed perspective to the broader product stack, contributing to web and backend work as needed to ship end-to-end features and keep the mobile, web, and backend experiences coherent.
Design and build robust, scalable, secure features in our flagship mobile app (React Native, iOS + Android), owning the hardest and most ambiguous mobile technical problems.
Set and maintain mobile engineering standards company-wide: architecture patterns, code quality practices, testing strategy, CI/CD, release/versioning process, app store submission and compliance, and crash/performance monitoring.
Provide technical leadership to contractor engineers working on mobile: reviewing designs and code, mentoring on React Native and native iOS/Android practices, and making sure contractor work aligns with LINQ’s architecture and standards.
Diagnose and resolve the most complex mobile issues — performance, stability, native module, and platform-specific (iOS/Android) problems that require deep native expertise.
Own production health for the mobile app: monitoring, crash triage, release quality, and app store standing.
Contribute to the companion web application and backend API as needed — enough to ship cross-stack features and represent mobile constraints/needs in web and backend design discussions.
Influence LINQ’s broader technical roadmap and strategy as it relates to mobile, partnering with engineering leadership, product, and other technical leads.
Actively participate in agile scrum ceremonies — sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives — and help the team continuously improve its process and delivery.
Mentor engineers at all levels on mobile development, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Benefits

Competitive base annual salary of 150,000-$160,000 plus a 15% bonus.
Work remote from one of our eligible states across the US, or three days in office a week if near Austin.
401(k) plan with a 4% employer match on total earnings.
Company bonus or target sales commission.
Flexible Open Paid Time Off Plan.
Paid Parental Leave.
Ten Paid Corporate Holidays.
16 paid volunteer hours.
Medical, dental and vision coverage.
Choice of low deductible PPO with FSA or HDHP with HSA (with LINQ contributions).
Dental coverage includes braces for children.
Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Basic Life, and AD&D insurance.
Gym reimbursements.
Savings on travel assistance, employee assistance, and pet insurance options.
Referral bonus for successful candidate referrals.