Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

Honor Technology’s mission is to change the way society cares for older adults. As a leader in aging care innovation, Honor provides the technology, tools, and services that empower older adults to live life on their own terms. Together, Honor and Home Instead are setting a new standard for aging in place, backed by powerful technology, compassionate care, and a commitment to aging on your own terms.

Who you are:

• You care about building systems that have real-world impact.
• You’re creative and curious, and enjoy thinking outside the box.
• You thrive in diverse, cross-functional environments, collaborating with design, product, data, and care operations.
• You have a builder’s mindset, evolving systems from design through operation.
• You ensure the final product across the team is of high quality and the clients benefit from our attention to detail and debugging procedures.
• You enjoy sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and contributing to a healthy, inclusive engineering culture.
• You’re an excellent, proactive communicator — able to translate complex ideas (both in writing and verbally) into clear, actionable solutions for technical and non-technical partners.
• You’re quick to spot inefficiencies in processes across your team and engineering and make actionable steps and recommendations to amend them.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience, with a track record of building and operating production systems.
• Experience designing relational data models and working with databases at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with API design, distributed systems, and backend performance considerations.
• Proficiency in Python or transferable backend experience with a willingness to learn Python.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React (Next.js/Vite/etc), Typescript, and Tailwind.
• Experience with using AI tooling to assist with productivity in both coding and deployment.

Requirements

• You’ll work on core services that power how families find care and how Care Professionals do their work—systems that directly support Honor’s mission every day.
• You’ll be working with the DemandGen Team—powering Honor’s public digital experiences and growth channels that help thousands of families find the care they need.

Benefits

• Base pay range: $194,400 — $216,000 USD.
• Generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities.
• 401K with up to a 4% employer match.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees.
• Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option.
• A generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.