Software Engineer I

WorkTango is an award-winning Employee Experience platform that helps leaders and organizations improve employee engagement, increase retention, and boost performance while reducing costs with Employee Surveys and Recognition & Rewards software.

WorkTango's holistic platform offers two distinct, but complementary solutions.

Surveys & Insights makes it easy for organizations to measure engagement and ensure every employee feels heard through unlimited surveys across the entire employee lifecycle. Leaders gain insight into employee sentiment through robust dashboards and insights, and are empowered to drive meaningful change with recommended action plans.

Recognition & Rewards enables organizations to scale and automate manual recognition & rewards practices, track and control costs, and create a continuous culture of appreciation through company-wide recognition.

WorkTango is built for the workplace we all want to be a part of – where teams accomplish great things, achievements are celebrated, and employees have a voice.

Please Note: We are not currently considering applicants in CA, MT, VT, and Puerto Rico for this position.

Overview of the role:

We are seeking a passionate and collaborative full-time Software Engineer to join our team at WorkTango. As a WorkTango Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying features while working closely with other members of our engineering team. You will be working with modern technologies such as TypeScript, Node, React, Express, Postgres, and more.

The awesome stuff you'll do in this role:

• Develop maintainable, extensible, and high-performing full-stack code
• Write reliable tests and review code written by others on the team
• Use your technical expertise and innovative ideas to influence the direction of our product
• Understand customer needs and collaborate with other teams to continuously improve our platform to meet those needs
• Support customers by identifying and resolving technical issues

What you'll need to be successful in this role:

• Minimum 1 years of application development experience required
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• A strong desire to innovate, experiment, collaborate and learn
• Ability to communicate technical problems concisely
• High standards for quality and attention to detail
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript/JavaScript
• Strong abilities with HTML and CSS, knowledge of HTML5, CSS3
• Server-side experience working with Node
• Modern front-end framework experience (React preferred)
• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores such as Postgres and Mongo
• Experience with AWS, S3, Heroku, or GCP
• Advocate for modern software engineering practices such as continuous integration, unit testing, and automated deployments
• A proven track record developing production applications
• Experience with agile software development processes such as scrum
• Experience using AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code
• Experience building products that incorporate AI a plus

If you've reached this point in the job description and feel you're still not sure if you should apply… Just do it You may not have 100% of all those bullets listed above - and that's okay We know there are no perfect applicants. If you're feeling like you're not going to fit in with our teams - that's not okay. One of our company values is "Work Together, Tango Together" - we believe in a diverse experience that allows us to build off the momentum of each other, so however you identity and whatever background you bring with you, we strongly encourage you to submit your application if this is a role you can be passionate about doing every day

When you work at WorkTango, we provide competitive benefits to make your life better both in and out of the office, which include: Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance; Open vacation policy; Flexible WFH policy; 2 weeks of all-company closure; 401k & RRSP programs; Mental Health benefits; Financial Wellness benefits; Generous Parental Leave; EAP & more

At WorkTango, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to how we grow and operate our business. We're building a diverse workforce that cultivates and supports all individuals. We believe a culture of equality creates a stronger work environment for all employees and that we are all accountable for encouraging and celebrating diverse voices. WorkTango commits to promote and recognize principles of fairness, equity, and social justice in relation to, and across, intersections of race, age, color, disability, faith, religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, social class, economic class, ethnicity, gender identity, gender expression, and all other identities represented among our diverse membership.