Stride is the first portable benefits platform specifically designed for the nearly 60 million American independent workers who do not receive employer-based benefits. The Stride platform offers access to insurance — health, dental, vision, life and other supplemental insurance — as well as financial tools to track income, mileage and other deductible expenses to manage their tax obligations, all via a single app. Since launching in 2014, Stride has helped more than 4.4 million workers save more than $8 billion on their taxes and monthly health insurance premiums.
Stride partners with over 100 leading companies like Uber, Amazon, DoorDash, and Instacart to provide their independent workers with access to our benefits platform. The company is backed by $96 million in capital from Venrock, New Enterprise Associates, Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital Partners, Mastercard, Allstate and King River.
2 Openings
Cash compensation range: $171,000 - $186,000 USD annually + equity
We’re hiring two Senior Software Engineers to join our growing Engineering team and help advance Stride’s mission to make benefits accessible and affordable for all. This is a unique opportunity to join one of two critical teams—Consumer or Enterprise (Platform/SaaS)—each focused on a distinct product area and technical depth.
While the tracks differ, both roles require strong full-stack development and share a commitment to scalable infrastructure, security, quality, and cross-functional collaboration in building products that support millions of individuals and our trusted partners.
About the Teams
- Consumer Team: This team focuses on enhancing Stride’s core consumer-facing experience and insurance product suite. You’ll help drive the user journey for individuals navigating their benefits and coverage options. Your work will directly impact the experience of independent workers as they sign up for and manage their healthcare and insurance needs.
- Platform/SaaS Team: This team owns Stride’s engineering platform and partner-facing SaaS tools, building the systems and infrastructure that power our agent, broker, and platform integrations. Your work will enable partners to manage their users efficiently and will directly contribute to the scalability and success of our B2B offerings.
Consumer Track - Frontend Leaning, Full-Stack: You will help shape the core user experience for millions of independent workers navigating benefits, coverage, and health tools. This is a great fit if you love frontend architecture, performance and clean, componentized design.
In this track, you will:
- Design and build high-performance, dynamic UIs using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
- Lead the development of micro-frontend architectures for scalable, modular deployments
- Optimize complex UI features for performance, accessibility, and fluid user interaction
- Manage advanced DOM and event handling logic across interactive components
- Build secure, privacy-forward front-end systems that scale across browsers and devices
- Drive performance improvements using techniques like lazy loading, code splitting, and caching
- Collaborate with design, product, and backend engineers to ship seamless, user-friendly experiences
- Support frontend observability, instrumentation, and monitoring across deployments.
Enterprise Track - Backend Leaning, Full-Stack: You will help shape the core user experience for millions of independent workers navigating benefits, coverage, and health tools. This is perfect if you're into backend architecture, systems thinking, and platform reliability.
In this track, you will:
- Design and maintain secure backend systems using Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis and DynamoDB
- Build and evolve REST and GraphQL APIs, managing access controls and data flows across services
- Implement robust authentication and session management (e.g. JWT, role-based permissions)
- Architect and deploy scalable microservices and event-driven systems
- Develop and manage infrastructure using Terraform, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Set up and refine observability tools, monitoring dashboards, and alerting systems for reliability
- Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, and product to ensure systems are performant and secure
- Guide decisions around caching, data modeling, and service orchestration for scalability
Experience & Qualifications
We recognize that some groups are less likely to apply to a role if they don’t meet 100% of the listed qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet a majority of the qualifications and this role is aligned with your career trajectory.
When reviewing resumes, we’ll be looking to see that you have:
- Senior-level experience (strong leadership, strategic thinking, expert problem-solving, effective communication, and the ability to mentor others while driving high-impact results and navigating complex challenges) in full-stack web development, typically 7+ years.
- Developed proficiency due to extended use of TypeScript, JavaScript, and a JavaScript framework (React preferred).
- Experience with RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and package dependencies management (NPM/Yarn).
- Experience with secure coding practices and data security.
- Deployed apps/services to cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
If we have an opportunity to engage you in your interview process, we’ll look to assess that you:
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Actively listen and display empathy
- Flexibly assist scrum teams or other initiatives when needed
- Have a strong bias for alignment, action and growth
Helpful Information:
This resource will help explain Stride’s Compensation Philosophy and compensation practices, and will answer some common questions you might have.
Stride’s Compensation Philosophy utilizes a National Payscale, which is designed to fairly and equitably pay employees based on their performance and impact regardless of geographic location. For employees in the United States, our National Payscale leverages San Francisco Bay Area market data to determine our compensation bands for cash, commissions, or bonus (if applicable) and equity.
Unless otherwise noted, the cash compensation above is the total salary and does not include a bonus. In addition to cash compensation, all full-time Striders will be given stock options to participate in Stride’s equity incentive program. We want all Striders to be an owner of the company, value that ownership, and be able to participate in any future positive outcomes for the company.
Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons. Our compensation ranges are designed to be competitive, equitable, and growth-oriented.
We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about what’s included in total compensation, check out some of the benefits and perks Stride offers to all US-based employees.
At Stride, we believe in compensating Striders in ways that are true to their value in the marketplace, that inspire and motivate the team to execute our vision, that shape behavior toward productively building and sustaining Stride's culture, and that support the risks and rewards of a fast-growing technology company.
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing. This can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you!
Stride is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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