Instrumentl49mo ago

$160,000 – $190,000/yr

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

United StatesRemoteFull-timesenior

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Overview

Hello, we’re Instrumentl. We’re a mission-driven startup helping the nonprofit sector to drive impact, and we’re well on our way to becoming the #1 most-loved grant discovery and management tool.

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Nonprofits do some of the most important work in the world, and most of them are still managing grants in spreadsheets. We’re fixing that.

Instrumentl is a profitable, hypergrowth, YC-backed SaaS platform building the operating system for grant-funded organizations. More than 5,500 nonprofits use Instrumentl to discover, track, and win grant funding, from local community organizations to the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. Collectively they’ve moved over $1 billion through our platform.

We’re doubling year over year, customers love us (NPS 65+, Ellis PMF 60+), and we’re hiring people who want to build something that matters.

You'll be a Senior Full Stack Engineer reporting to our Head of Engineering, working across design, product, content, and support to deliver a best-in-class experience to every user. On a small, distributed team that owns the product, support, and data stack end to end, you'll build and improve both customer-facing products and internal tooling, own problems from ideation through shipped and reliable solutions, and help set the quality bar for the engineers who join after you. We're an AI-forward team that invests heavily in modern tooling and expects engineers to use it with strong judgment, staying the author and owner of their work rather than outsourcing it to the tools. If you want broad ownership and real impact at a profitable, fast-growing company rather than a narrow slice at a larger one, this is that seat.

Build, operate, and improve products for every Instrumentl customer, from small local nonprofits to large organizations

Create responsive interfaces and APIs that drive customer adoption and retention

Contribute high-quality, thoroughly tested code across resilient backends and trustworthy user interfaces

Own problems end to end, managing complexity from ideation through shipped, reliable solutions

Use AI tooling with judgment to move faster while owning the quality, correctness, and long-term maintainability of what you ship

Partner with product, sales, support, and content to improve internal tools and processes

Act as a strategic partner, weighing business impact, reliability, and the detail of every customer interaction

Uphold Instrumentl's quality standards and mentor newer engineers to the same bar

7+ years as a software engineer building and shipping production software

Generalist range: comfortable moving across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data or billing pipelines as the work demands

Deep, hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails in production: this is our primary stack and where you'll spend most of your time

Working fluency across Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and HTML/CSS, with an openness to adopting new tools

A track record of owning problems end to end and delivering them from ideation to completion

Nice to Have

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Startup or early-stage experience

Experience mentoring or leveling up other engineers

For US-based candidates, the target salary range for this role is 170,000 - $200,000 USD, plus equity. Final compensation is determined based on experience, skillset, scope of responsibility, interview performance, and geographic location. We’re committed to paying competitively and equitably.

For candidates based in Canada, compensation varies by province and will be shared by your recruiter early in the process.

What We Offer

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100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents)

Generous PTO, including parental leave

401(k)

Company laptop and home-office stipend

Bi-annual company retreats

Instrumentl is evolving rapidly. You’ll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow here.

What to expect:

Instrumentl is evolving rapidly. You’ll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow in your role - you won’t be bored! You’ll be an early member of our small but mighty team, playing a huge part in shaping our culture for the years and teammates to come.

At Instrumentl:

- We’re customer-focused. We routinely seek feedback from our customers to improve the Instrumentl experience for everyone. Our first company value is "The customer is the hero" and we mean it.

- We love to experiment. We are constantly generating new concepts and iterating to see what works - ideation and experimentation are essential here. "Bend the curve" is another key company value.

- We appreciate authenticity. We have a diverse range of life experiences, and we encourage open, clear communication with each other about the things that matter most to us.

- We’re approachable and collaborative. Everyone has a voice, and we’re all building Instrumentl together.

- We kick it every day with some of the nicest people in the world. No joke, our customers are often on the front lines educating kids, saving endangered species, and restoring watersheds. In helping them take advantage of Instrumentl’s technology, you’re helping them move the world forward.

Instrumentl is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.

✓100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents)

✓Generous PTO, including parental leave

✓401(k)

✓Company laptop and home-office stipend

✓Bi-annual company retreats

✓Instrumentl is evolving rapidly. You’ll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow here.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

United States

Remote within one country

Who can apply

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Listing Details

Posted: May 24, 2022
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: June 19, 2026

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Trust Level: 43%
Scored at: June 19, 2026

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Instrumentl

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Backed by years of personal and professional experience in the nonprofit and academic arenas, our team came together to create the most comprehensive source of grant and funder data in the world, and designed it around the needs of our community.

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Founded

2014

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