Senior Software Engineer

About Bright Harbor

Bright Harbor empowers communities to recover from disaster. Our platform reveals what survivors need, launches programs that get aid moving quickly, and coordinates every stakeholder so a community can work as one.

Our mission is to help every disaster survivor find their way home. We put them at the center of their recovery and give the governments serving them real-time visibility into every case, every gap, and every step forward.

Disasters are getting bigger and more frequent, and helping communities survive them and thrive is the challenge of our time. We build for the moment everything else falls apart. If you want your work to matter on the hardest days people will ever face, come build with us.

About the job

We're looking for an entrepreneurial, full-stack Senior Engineer to join our small team. We value speed, pragmatism, and flexibility. You will work closely with our CTO, engineers, designers, and product managers to build our disaster recovery platform. You'll write (well-tested) frontend and backend code, integrate with various tools via APIs, and help shape the technical foundation of our product. We are still very early in our development efforts, so anyone who joins now will have a significant impact on how we build and scale.

The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity, can self-direct, and likes talking to customers and other departments. Because natural disasters are unpredictable, so is our business. Every week will be different than the last and bring new challenges at a rapid pace.

What you'll do

• Build frontend and backend solutions to our customers' and survivors' problems

• Collaborate with our CTO and product/engineering team

• Architect and scale our systems as we grow past 100,000s of survivors

• Manage cloud infrastructure (we use Fly.io and AWS) for our services

• Support all users of our software and tools

• Build and operate securely, complying with SOC 2 and GovRamp/FedRamp policies
  

About you

• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer

• Expert knowledge of functional programming paradigms

• Excellent writer and communicator

• Experience with cloud infrastructure in Fly.io or AWS

• Care about speed of delivery and know how to use Codex/Claude Code

• Bonus: Experience with Event Sourcing

Why Bright Harbor

We're a fast-growing, mission-driven company backed by top-tier investors. You'll join a collaborative team building something that truly matters, showing up for survivors and their communities in the hardest moments of their lives.

We offer:

• Purpose-driven work that lets you make true impact on the lives of disaster survivors

• Conscious leadership built on extreme ownership, clear feedback, and a culture of performance and gratitude

• Team wellbeing backed by fully paid employee health insurance, mental health support, generous parental leave, 401k, PTO, and equity for every employee