Senior Software Engineer (Multiple Levels) Who Boundless is

We’re a team of immigrants and experts who have struggled with our own journeys through the complex, high-stakes U.S. immigration system. That is why we are building deeply customer-centric products and experiences to become the default trusted partner for all families and businesses. We are the largest player in the family immigration industry, and a high-growth challenger serving corporate clients. Across both consumer and business segments, we’ve aided over 100,000 individuals and 1,000 businesses to successfully navigate the convoluted immigration process. 

We're backed by influential venture investors around the country, including Foundry Group (led by Brad Feld), Trilogy Equity Partners, Pioneer Square Labs, Emerson Collective (Laurene Powell Jobs’ foundation), Two Sigma Ventures, and Jerry Yang. 

Today, we are a dynamic growth-stage technology company with 350+ employees across the U.S. and Philippines. We are growing both organically and through strategic acquisitions. We are well-capitalized and on our way to becoming the largest immigration company in the world and first trusted brand in the industry.

During your first month in this role, you will: Learn by doing with your team. Upon your start you will be assigned to one of our existing initiatives. You will learn our codebase and our technologies with pairing and contributing solutions to the problems your Core Team is working on. Within your first week, you will deliver code to the production environment. Discover our process, practices, and career map. Throughout your first month you’ll learn about our practices & process; the way we plan our work, retrospectives, etc and you will work closely with your manager to learn about how we think about career development at Boundless. Within three months, you will: Independently progress on major product initiatives by starting to own parts of our major initiatives. You will collaborate with Product Managers, project leads, and other engineers to estimate, plan, and execute within larger initiatives. Proactively raise the bar for the way we work and the product we ship. As you are working on our initiatives you will identify structural issues in our codebase, address critical tech debt, and improve the reliability of our product and our developer experience. Work efficiently in application support, time boxing solutions and communicating tradeoffs to different approaches. Regularly participate in code review and help the broader team uphold best practices. Proactively discuss QA & release of projects across the team to ensure broad ability to support and triage issues across the team. Within a year, you will: Assist team in planning, assessing, and potentially leading projects ensuring projects are well defined and processes are followed. Mentor and promote an inclusive and high-performing culture through your day to day actions. Your participation in onboarding, interviewing, and project based collaboration exemplify our values and makes our team stronger. About this position:

Being passionate about a healthy codebase, continuous learning, maintainable architectures, and collaborating with other engineers will contribute to your success in this role. You will work with a variety of technologies including Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React/Typescript. We don’t require you to initially be an expert in all of these technologies but we do expect you to have expertise in one and be willing to learn others quickly. Solid understanding of security practices is a big plus for this position.

Here are some examples of work we have done recently to illustrate the type of projects you would be working on:

Upgrade Ruby on Rails from version 6 to version 7.1 We will be upgrading to Rails 7.2 soon Upgrade Ruby from 3.1 to 3.2 Investigate and mitigate security issues flagged by SAST and DAST tools. Fix phone number formatting issue when syncing data to hubspot Monitor production issues, investigate and create fixes Upgrade heroku stack to avoid deprecation Monitor on-call channel and make fixes to unblock customers Improve heroku review app post deployment scripts to better handle when an existing app is redeployed About You: Advanced experience as a Full Stack Ruby on Rails + React developer Recognized within your immediate organization as "a person to ask" when difficult questions arise Strongly opinionated about the necessity of automated tests and the ability to determine what level of automated testing is necessary for a particular feature Experience with an end to end testing framework such as Cypress or Playwright Experience and interest in mentorship and coaching of engineers Experience effectively leading projects, including collaboration with other engineers and other stakeholders Leads system designs for new features and initiatives Set best practices to maintain the health of an area of the codebase Team player that both removes roadblocks and ruthlessly prioritizes to ensure the highest impact work gets done

Why work for Boundless? 

Boundless offers employees the unique opportunity to grow professionally as leaders in the online immigration industry while driving positive social change. Every employee is essential to achieving our core mission of empowering every family to navigate the immigration system more confidently, rapidly and affordably.  

 

We are trailblazers in the online immigration space because we aren’t constrained by convention - We think without bounds. Boundless is a place for employees who aren’t afraid to continuously try new things. We value a spirit of inquiry and look for individuals who ask questions and challenge ideas to move us forward, to understand the why. We encourage our employees to focus on outcomes over output and to address complex challenges with simple solutions. Boundless is all about ownership, accountability, and flexibility in how we approach our individual company roles, and the industry as a whole. 

 

Location & Set Up

Cebu, PH Hybrid

 

What We Offer

You will be part of a dynamic workforce in an environment where you will collaborate with the experts and elite talents in the online immigration services industry. 

You can cultivate your skillfulness and dexterity amongst us as you experience a highly creative culture built on loyalty and responsibility to our partners while having a lot of fun at work. 

Great company perks and benefits await you! 

Annual salary appraisal and regularization merit: We recognize great teammates and reward them for exemplary performance and dedication at work. Monthly attendance incentive: We believe that consistent presence enables our teammates to learn and become better providers for their customers. 15 PTO credits per year and 3 days off in December: We encourage our teammates to take advantage of their leave credits should they feel sick or wish to take a vacation.  Meaningful health insurance package: We give health insurance support for you and your dependent.  Statutory mandated benefits: We ensure each team member has their statutory contributions and 13th-month pay up-to-date.  Free coffee and weekly meals provision  Free transportation services: We prioritize your health and safety as you work on-site, so you will be provided pick-up and drop-off transportation access. Parking space is also provided. Collaborative engagement sessions and major company-wide sponsored events: We allocate a budget to cultivate engagement and fun in our work environment.