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# Staff Software Engineer at LINQ 

- **Company:** LINQ 
- **Location:** Denver, CO
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emslinqinc/jobs/5317298008

## Job description

Who We Are:

We’re a high-growth software company with a big mission: empowering K-12 district teams to do more with less.

At LINQ, we get K12. That’s why we help districts transform K-12 school operations with best-in-class, cloud-based software solutions built to help districts return more resources to classrooms. Integrating finance, HR, nutrition management, and payments into a single, secure platform, LINQ reduces administrative burden. LINQ is trusted by 30% of school districts across the U.S. to help them operate more efficiently and serve over 1 billion meals to 17 million students annually, process payroll for 364,000 educators, administrators, and staff, and engage with millions of families through the free LINQ Connect app.

Our team? They’re talented, committed, and fiercely loyal problem-solvers. At LINQ, you’ll find challenging and meaningful work, a team that respects and uplifts one another, and a commitment to constant improvement. Our customers love us because we’re attentive, patient, communicative, and solutions focused. They know they can count on us to not only anticipate their needs but to deliver the right answer every time.

LINQ’s Values:

- Act with Integrity & Build Trust: Trust is the foundation of our company. We operate with the highest standards of integrity, both internally and externally. We believe in transparency, honesty, and accountability. Building a culture where trust is earned and maintained.
- Deliver Excellence: We consistently exceed our clients’ expectations. In every interaction, we strive to anticipate needs, provide swift solutions, and go the extra mile to relentlessly impress our customers. We communicate clearly, consistently, and in a timely way to cultivate lasting relationships.
- Embrace Challenges: We embrace a growth mindset. Challenges offer opportunities to learn, grow, and improve. Continuous learning keeps us relevant and effective to ensure our solutions remain on the leading edge of innovation.
- Collaborate & Act as One Team: Diverse skills, ideas, and perspectives are our strength. Through open communication, shared goals, and a spirit of unity and mutual respect, we collaborate to achieve excellence, drive innovation, and propel our company forward as a cohesive force.

## About the Team

You’ll be embedded in a product engineering team building one of LINQ’s core products for parents/guardians and districts, which helps families manage student accounts — payments, balances, transaction history, and family/student management — across a React Native mobile app (your primary focus in this role), a companion web application, and a backend API.

Beyond your home product, you’ll be the company’s senior-most technical voice for mobile engineering. LINQ’s ecosystem includes a number of native mobile applications across different products, and at a high level, you’ll be the person other teams and leadership turn to when a mobile architecture, tooling, or platform decision needs to be made anywhere in that ecosystem.

## About the Role

As a Staff Mobile Software Engineer, you will be the primary technical owner and lead of our flagship React Native mobile application (iOS + Android), while also serving as LINQ’s de facto mobile engineering lead across the broader ecosystem of native apps the company maintains. You’ll set technical direction and standards for mobile development company-wide, and provide hands-on technical leadership to teams of contractors working in mobile codebases — without formal people-management responsibility, but with real authority over architecture, code quality, and technical direction.

This is a mobile-first role: your primary responsibility and the majority of your time will be spent in that flagship mobile app. As capacity and need allow, you’ll also contribute to and interface with its companion web application and backend API, giving you the full-stack context to make sound mobile architecture decisions and collaborate effectively with web and backend engineers.

Primary Objectives

- Mobile Technical Leadership: Own the architecture, technical direction, and quality bar for our flagship React Native mobile application. Be the final technical voice on non-trivial mobile design decisions.
- Company-Wide Mobile Authority: Act as LINQ’s go-to mobile expert across the company’s ecosystem of native apps — establishing and evangelizing shared mobile engineering standards, patterns, and best practices wherever mobile development happens.
- Contractor Technical Leadership: Provide day-to-day technical leadership to contractor engineers working in mobile codebases — setting direction, reviewing code, unblocking technical problems, and ensuring their work meets LINQ’s engineering bar. (This is a technical leadership role, not a people-management role.)
- Cross-Stack Collaboration: Bring mobile-informed perspective to the broader product stack, contributing to web and backend work as needed to ship end-to-end features and keep the mobile, web, and backend experiences coherent.

## What You’ll Be Doing

- Design and build robust, scalable, secure features in our flagship mobile app (React Native, iOS + Android), owning the hardest and most ambiguous mobile technical problems.
- Set and maintain mobile engineering standards company-wide: architecture patterns, code quality practices, testing strategy, CI/CD, release/versioning process, app store submission and compliance, and crash/performance monitoring.
- Provide technical leadership to contractor engineers working on mobile: reviewing designs and code, mentoring on React Native and native iOS/Android practices, and making sure contractor work aligns with LINQ’s architecture and standards.
- Diagnose and resolve the most complex mobile issues — performance, stability, native module, and platform-specific (iOS/Android) problems that require deep native expertise.
- Own production health for the mobile app: monitoring, crash triage, release quality, and app store standing.
- Contribute to the companion web application and backend API as needed — enough to ship cross-stack features and represent mobile constraints/needs in web and backend design discussions.
- Influence LINQ’s broader technical roadmap and strategy as it relates to mobile, partnering with engineering leadership, product, and other technical leads.
- Actively participate in agile scrum ceremonies — sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives — and help the team continuously improve its process and delivery.
- Mentor engineers at all levels on mobile development, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

## What We Are Looking For

- 10+ years of professional software development experience, with substantial depth in mobile application development.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent working experience.
- Proven, production-grade experience building and shipping React Native applications (iOS + Android) at scale.
- Real, hands-on native mobile development experience — Swift/Xcode for iOS and/or Kotlin/Android Studio for Android — not just cross-platform (React Native) experience.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript for cross-platform mobile development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically — setting architecture and direction, reviewing others’ work, and raising the bar for a team — including experience guiding contractors or engineers you don’t formally manage.
- Experience owning mobile CI/CD, release processes, and app store submission/compliance (Apple App Store and Google Play).
- Strong understanding of mobile app performance, stability, and production monitoring (crash reporting, analytics, remote config/feature flagging).
- Experience with Git for version control and working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, contractors, and leadership.
- Ability to describe, present, and influence architectural decisions across teams.

What Will Make You Stand Out

- Experience contributing to Angular-based web applications.
- Familiarity with C#/.NET, or general comfort navigating and contributing to backend/API codebases.
- Experience with common mobile SDKs used in production consumer apps: feature flagging, crash/analytics monitoring, authentication providers, and in-app support/engagement tools.
- Experience with localization/internationalization in a mobile app serving a multilingual user base.
- Experience in fintech, payments, or another domain with strong security and compliance requirements.
- Prior experience as a technical lead for distributed teams that include contractors, including cross-timezone collaboration.

The Tech

React Native, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, Angular, C#, SQL, Gi

Compensation:

We offer a competitive base annual salary of 140,000-$160,000 plus a 15% bonus.

## Why You'll Love Working With Us

💰Planning Your Future: Our 401(k) plan comes with a 4% employer match on total earnings (not just your base salary).

💸Performance Pays Off: Whether it’s a company bonus or target sales commission, your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed.

🌴Vacation Your Way: Our flexible Open Paid Time Off Plan lets you take the time you need, when you need it.

👶Paid Parental Leave: Take the time you need to welcome your new addition – We’ve got you covered!

🎉Ten Paid Corporate Holidays: Enjoy a little extra downtime to relax and recharge with the ten paid holidays each year.

❤️Giving Back: Feel good while doing good – 16 paid volunteer hours to support the causes that matter most to you. #LINQCares

🏥Benefits That Have Your Back (And Teeth, Too!): Rock-solid medical, dental and vision coverage. Pick your vibe: a low deductible PPO and pair with an FSA or a HDHP with a sweet HSA – with contributions from LINQ. Dental perks that even cover braces for the kiddos.

💪Wellness Perks: Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Basic Life, and AD&D insurance. Gym reimbursements and tons of extra savings on travel assistance, employee assistance, and even pet insurance options.

🎁Rewards For Referrals: Got an amazing candidate in your network? Send them our way and earn a referral bonus when they join the team!

EOE Statement/Accommodation Notice:

As a federal contractor and equal employment opportunity employer, LINQ adheres to all applicable laws and regulations regarding employment practices, ensuring that all qualified individuals receive consideration for employment

based on their qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local law.

To learn more about your rights and protections under federal law, please refer to the EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Poster at the following link: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster

If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s state or federally required affirmative action plans or policy statement, please email HRHelp@linq.com.  If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact HRHelp@linq.com.  This email address is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requesting accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Please do not use this email to inquire about the status of your job application if you do not require accessibility assistance or an accommodation. Messages left for other purposes, such as solicitation, following up on an application or non-disability related technical issues, will not receive a response.

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## About LINQ 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LINQ provides cloud-based software solutions that modernize K-12 school operations, integrating finance, HR, nutrition, and payments into a single platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by private equity)
- **Headquarters**: Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
- **Founded**: 1989
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Education Administration Programs (K-12 software)
- **Target customers**: K-12 school districts in the United States (B2B, serving central office teams, business managers, and nutrition directors)
- **Mission statement**: "We empower K-12 leaders to bring strength and stability to every school in America."

## Products & Services
- **LINQ ERP**: Cloud-based enterprise resource planning for K-12 districts, managing budgets, payroll, HR, and financial operations.
- **LINQ School Nutrition**: Front-of-house and back-of-house cafeteria management software for meal service, state nutrition programs, and grant administration.
- **LINQ Payments**: Unified payment platform for school meals and fees, enabling easier payments and faster reconciliation for families.
- **LINQ State Nutrition**: Software for running state nutrition and grant programs with confidence, ensuring integrity across applications, accounting, claims, and reporting.
- **LINQ Connect**: A mobile and web app connecting families to their child's school for payments and communication.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric – Annual Revenue**: $84.7 million [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/linq-inc)
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Two private equity rounds: led by Banneker Partners (2018) and Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe (2022); plus a debt financing round (2019) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/linq-inc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Banneker Partners, Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/linq-inc)
- **Growth Signals**: Partners with 30% of U.S. school districts; powers over 1 billion school meals annually; supports 17 million students; processes payroll for 364,000 staff; connects 3.4 million families through LINQ Connect [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/). Has made several acquisitions including Colyar Consulting Group, Registration Gateway, SchoolFinance, Script, and Specialized Data Systems [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/linq-inc).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep K-12 specialization**: Built on 30+ years of experience exclusively in K-12 operations, understanding the unique regulatory and operational challenges of school districts.
- **Integrated platform**: Combines ERP, nutrition, and payments into one cohesive system, reducing administrative burden and data silos.
- **Scale & reach**: Already serving a large portion of U.S. school districts, creating a strong network effect and data advantage.
- **Mission-driven focus**: Aligns product development with the goal of returning resources to classrooms, which resonates with school district buyers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product integration & platform expansion**: Continuing to unify finance, HR, nutrition, and payments into a seamless experience.
- **AI enablement**: Hiring a Principal AI Engineer and Principal Technical Program Manager for AI Enablement, signaling investment in AI-powered features for K-12 operations [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emslinqinc).
- **Growth through acquisitions**: Historically active in acquiring complementary K-12 software companies to broaden capabilities.
- **Remote-first workforce**: Emphasizing a remote working environment to attract national talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes "One LINQ, One Family" mindset with a focus on collaboration, continuous improvement, and making a real impact in education [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/company/careers/).
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote working environment is a core perk [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/company/careers/).
- **Perks**: Rich medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with employer match; paid holidays; Open Paid Time Off; professional development; paid volunteer time [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/company/careers/).
- **DEI**: Employee-led Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committee focused on fostering an inclusive environment [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/company/careers/).
- **Community Impact**: LINQ Cares initiative supporting student basic needs, school experiences, and teacher/staff assistance [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/company/careers/).
- **Employee Recognition**: Employee recognition programs, virtual social events, and an employee book club.
- **Employer Rating**: 2.4/5.0 on LinkedIn (based on 15 reviews), with scores of 3.0 for work-life balance and 2.3 for career opportunities [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/linq-inc). Note: small sample size.
- **Headcount**: 238 employees, with a -10.3% yearly growth trend [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/linq-inc).

## Sources
1. [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/company/)
2. [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/company/careers/)
3. [linq.com](https://www.linq.com/)
4. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emslinqinc)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/linq-inc)

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