Senior Software Engineer

Founded in 2017, Trust & Will is the leading digital estate planning platform, trusted by over one million users. We provide modern, accessible solutions to help families protect their legacies with attorney-approved, legally valid documents tailored to individual state requirements. Our seamless online platform simplifies the estate planning and settlement process, empowering individuals to create wills and trusts while also partnering with financial advisors, attorneys, and institutions to make legacy planning more inclusive and affordable. If you're excited about driving measurable impact and contributing to a mission that truly matters, we'd love to connect. Join a collaborative, experiment-driven team where your insights, creativity, and product thinking help unlock meaningful growth for our customers and the business. About You: • You are a technical leader, proficient in TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node.js, with a strong foundation in system design and cloud-native development. • You have a problem-solving mindset, tackling system-wide challenges with strategic thinking and a focus on high-impact solutions. • You see AI not as a tool but as a fundamental shift in engineering, and you actively seek opportunities to harness its potential. • You thrive in fast-moving, high-performance environments, navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and delivering results. • You are a mentor and collaborator, fostering team growth through thoughtful guidance, clear communication, and constructive feedback. • You are passionate about writing maintainable, testable code, ensuring software quality through modern DevOps and observability best practices. About the Role: Technical Leadership, Quality & Impact • Architect, design, and deliver large-scale, high-performance features across the stack. • Drive system-level design and data modeling, ensuring scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions aligned with organizational best practices. • Think expansively about AI—how to build with it, integrate it into features, and leverage it to drive innovation • Own technical projects end-to-end, ensuring efficient delivery, optimal performance, extensibility, and reliability. • Lead and contribute operational engineering strategies, including test automation observability and modern CI/CD practices. • Collaborate on cloud architecture decisions to deliver resilient, cost-effective, and secure solutions. • Deliver high-quality, production-ready code that adheres to coding and operational best practices, accounts for edge cases, and is self-documenting for maintainability. • Lead efforts to reduce technical debt and optimize system performance through continuous refactoring and advanced debugging practices. • Drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, and performance, leveraging monitoring and observability tools to proactively identify bottlenecks and issues. • Champion a culture of learning by facilitating design discussions, providing constructive feedback, and fostering collaboration across teams. Collaboration, Innovation & Mentorship • Partner with product managers, designers, and cross-functional stakeholders to align technical efforts with business objectives and customer needs. • Mentor engineers across skill levels, providing guidance in software patterns, architecture, DevOps, and problem-solving techniques to foster technical growth. • Communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment and shared understanding across teams. • Promote knowledge sharing through technical documentation, share-outs, and peer collaboration to elevate team capabilities. • Actively explore how AI can improve developer efficiency, automate workflows, and enhance system reliability. • Explore and advocate for cutting-edge tools and technologies, incorporating them into the engineering stack when appropriate to advance capabilities. • Lead initiatives to drive innovation and continuously improve engineering processes, challenging the status quo to deliver greater value. • Contribute to system-wide architectural discussions to ensure alignment with strategic goals and future scalability. Qualifications: • 5+ years of professional full-stack development experience in high-performing teams. • Demonstrated proficiency in TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node.js. • Advanced skills in system design, data modeling (MongoDB, Postgres), and cloud-native development (AWS). • Skilled in test-driven development, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps best practices. • Proficient in debugging complex systems and implementing observability practices to ensure operational excellence. • Demonstrated ability in integrating AI code assistants to enhance development productivity and code quality, with hands-on experience using at least one of the following: Claude, Cursor, RooCode, or RooCline. • Proven ability to mentor engineers, align technical solutions with business goals