About Imperative

At Imperative, we empower every person to make their work fulfilling. We believe this is the only way to realize our potential as people, organizations, and society. We believe this can change the world.

Imperative is a leadership development platform that uses the power of peers to support each other as they manage remote employees and accelerated change in the workplace. Through Imperative’s video-based coaching platform leaders meet in rotating pairs for scripted peer-to-peer coaching conversations that are dynamically designed to adapt as their needs change. Imperative is a Seattle-based tech start-up, quickly being adopted by employee-centric Fortune 1000 companies with distributed workforces as a strategy to emerge stronger from the pandemic.

Imperative is founded and led by Aaron Hurst, a serial social entrepreneur, and a foremost expert on the science of purpose at work. Our team has deep experience in start-ups, technology, marketing, social impact, and enterprise learning. We’ve worked in venture-backed, boot-strapped, and large corporate environments.

We work with incredible companies like Target, Casper, Zillow, Airbnb, BuzzFeed – transforming their culture and making a meaningful impact in the lives of thousands of employees, every day. If you think work isn’t working; if you believe that quality of life and work matter deeply; if you’re motivated to change the game, come work with us.

Imperative is backed by Voyager Capital and individual investors including Court Lorenzini, Founding CEO of DocuSign, and Joel Spolsky, Founder of StackOverFlow and Trello. Early angel investors included Sand Hill Angels and Gaingels.

About the Role

Imperative is looking for a talented Principal Software Developer who is passionate about solving real problems and is excited about using the latest technology to do it. As a principal full-stack engineer on the team, you will be working directly with our CTO, Nikhil Singhal, to be on the ground floor as we go-to-market and expand the platform to achieve our vision.

You will lead the efforts to develop new and enhanced products using machine learning models and behavioral science to design user experiences that ensures that every conversation on the platform achieves learning, interpersonal, and career breakthroughs. As Imperative grows, this role will be critical in growing the engineering and product teams and nurturing a people-first and purpose-powered culture.

About the Successful Candidate

You are an entrepreneurial, purpose-driven, independent, and high capacity engineer who can be at the core of our engineering team and take ownership of the entire platform as our most senior developer.

In addition, you’re passionate about building technology at scale and solving challenges for your customers in creative and innovative ways.

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of experience with strong computer science fundamentals
• Architect and Build highly performant APIs and frontend frameworks
• High proficiency in building backend systems in either Java or .Net
• High proficiency in building frontend systems in React or Vue
• Significant experience working with both relational and non-relational databases
• Experience with large-scale, distributed systems
• Experience working with cloud technologies (either AWS or Azure)
• Functional programming is nice to have
• Ability to work both independently and with remote teams
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes

People-First Culture

We are leading a movement to humanize work. Our culture is intentionally designed and nurtured to model the change we want to see in the world. We invest in each other and helping everyone thrive at work and in their lives. Our goal is to help everyone on the team craft their jobs to have meaningful relationships, maximize their impact, and to be pushed to constantly grow as people and professionals.

Our office is located in the heart of downtown Seattle in the new 2 & U building, within walking distance to Pike Place market and countless food and coffee options. The team can access the building’s fitness center and locker rooms.

We are a certified B Corp and offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401k, equity, and unlimited vacation days. The salary will be commensurate with experience.

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At Imperative, we celebrate difference, we support workplace authenticity, and we thrive on diverse viewpoints for the benefit of our employees, our customers, and our community.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Imperative does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.

As a condition of employment, all offers are contingent upon completion of a criminal background check. An individual assessment of an applicant’s prior criminal convictions will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.