At Underline, we are driven by a singular mission: to ensure the vibrancy of our nation through building intelligent community infrastructure. We work with communities across the United States to design, finance, and construct open-access fiber-optic networks. We believe these networks are the essential foundation for ultra-fast access to information, a competitive market for content and services, job formation and reskilling for workers, distributed healthcare services, new wireless solutions, and resilient modern infrastructure including responsible energy creation.  

We’re looking for a full-time software engineer focused on systems integrations to join our Software Engineering team. 

Our Engineering team responds to the needs of the business, delivering well-designed and strategically aligned technology solutions in network architecture and design, customer acquisition, network service provider connectivity, and operations and support systems.

Spend your time with us as we help support the vitality and resilience of communities.

• We offer bold solutions to drive positive, sustainable change 
• We approach our work with humility, integrity, and intellectual rigor
• We are agile and relentless in pursuit of our mission 
• We have a mentality of service: to our mission, and to each other
• We are dedicated to building and sustaining a culture of flourishing
•  We optimize our efforts to create positive-sum for community and capital

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain exceptionally high standards for talent and recognize that there are many paths to developing expertise. We don't discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. If you have the skills we need and the ambition to grow fast with us, that's all that matters.

• You are hungry, humble, and curious
• You have excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
•  You want to solve interesting problems in the realms of systems integration and APIs
• You are an intrinsic self-starter and enjoy taking on new challenges
• You want to be part of the early stages of a company where everything you build matters
• You want a highly collaborative environment, comprised of diverse subject matter experts in broadband networking, data center infrastructure, software development, and design
• You care about building critical intelligent infrastructure to increase community vitality and improve resilience

• Work closely with business and systems architecture colleagues to assess integration needs
• Evaluate and recommend integration partners
• Build connector or adapter components to external systems
• Manage API documentation for integration components and external systems
• Manage security credentials for development, test, and production environments
• Work with frontend and backend engineers to deliver integrated performance at scale
• Maintain high standards of software development and quality through unit testing, integration testing, continuous integration, automated deployment, logging, performance metrics, and documentation
• Respond to the requirements of the business and the software architects in building efficiently-scoped and strategically-aligned software

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Fluent in Go or JavaScript
• Experience with Python or other languages nice to have
• Hands on experience working with REST APIs
• Demonstrable experience in integrating 3rd party software into an overall solution
• Proficiency with security standards such as OAuth2 and client certificates
• Familiarity with SQL-like databases such as Postgresql
• Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing
• Strong understanding of web development protocols and security
• Familiarity with deployment tools like  Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS