Full Stack Engineer - Grants

We are seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join the Grants team at Submittable, where you will help deliver scalable, reliable, and intuitive solutions that power our grants management platform. In this role, you will work cross-functionally with Support, Implementation, Sales, Engineering, and QA to design, build, and maintain well-tested systems across the stack. You will contribute to platform stability and evolution while operating in a team that values clarity, iteration, and disciplined engineering practices.

We are looking for engineers who excel in globally distributed, cross-functional environments and are motivated to take features from concept through production ownership.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Back-End Development & APIs: Implement and enhance scalable back-end features and APIs that support product growth and platform reliability
• Legacy Code Modernization: Refactor and evolve existing codebases and services to improve maintainability, performance, and long-term sustainability
• Backend Architecture & Design: Design scalable, performant, and maintainable services. Identify and advocate for architectural improvements and best practices
• Code Quality & Testing: Write clean, testable code and participate in peer reviews that help raise the quality of the team’s output
• Technical Decision-Making: Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, scale, and simplicity
• Cross-Functional Teamwork: Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers to define and ship new features
• Documentation & Communication: Strengthen your written communication through design docs, planning notes, and pull request descriptions — key to thriving in a remote-first environment
• System Ownership: Develop confidence in owning small to medium-sized services, including monitoring, on-call participation, and driving incremental improvements
• Global Collaboration: Meet regularly with global team members between 9-12 AM EST

What We Are Looking For

• 4+ years of professional experience contributing to, maintaining, and incrementally improving production-grade full stack applications in a distributed, cross-functional environment
• Ability to rapidly understand and navigate existing product architecture and infrastructure
• Experience modernizing legacy front-end applications and working with contemporary UI frameworks
• Proficiency building and maintaining server-side and application-layer services
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating event-driven or cloud-based services
• Strong understanding of database performance tuning and optimization
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve issues across both legacy and modern software stacks
• Familiarity with modern development patterns, system design principles, and API-driven architectures
• Working knowledge of software development practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts
• Experience working with cont