Instrumentl

Senior Backend Engineer at Instrumentl (India). Listed on Wellfound.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Instrumentl (India). Listed on Wellfound.

₹2L to ₹2L

Hello, we’re Instrumentl. 👋 Nonprofits do some of the most important work in the world, and most of them are still managing grants in spreadsheets. We're fixing that. Instrumentl is a profitable, hypergrowth, YC-backed SaaS platform building the operating system for grant-funded organizations. More than 5,500 nonprofits use Instrumentl to discover, track, and win grant funding, from local community organizations to the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. Collectively they’ve moved over $1 billion through our platform. We're growing quickly, customers love us (check out our G2 reviews!), and we're hiring people who want to build something that matters. About the role: We're hiring a **Senior Product Designer** to own _Manage_, our post-award product area where $1.1B+ in grant funding is tracked, reported on, and kept compliant. Grant professionals are doing some of the most important, high-stakes work in the country, and they deserve tools to match it. Until recently, that infrastructure didn't exist. Post-award work happened across a patchwork of spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected accounting exports, with the grant professional as the middleperson: manually moving information between systems instead of doing the strategic work they were hired to do. We're building the solution: a single, intelligent platform where every stage of the grant lifecycle connects, and each stage makes the next one smarter. We recently launched _Spenddown_, enabling nonprofits to see real-time budget vs. actuals tracking synced from accounting systems like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online. We're now building toward program financials, cross-functional workflows, reporting functionality, and compliance reviews. These are meaty, genuinely hard design problems: complex data models, multi-stakeholder workflows spanning grant professionals, finance teams, and program staff, and high-stakes compliance contexts where post-award mistakes cost organizations their funding. This product area is still being invented, and the designer who owns it will shape what post-award management looks like for thousands of organizations. You'll report directly to Hope, Head of Design, and work as a true strategic partner to your PM and engineering lead. This is an IC role with outsized scope, not a feature factory. The Instrumentl team is remote. You can design from anywhere in the continental U.S. or Canada as long as you have 4+ hours of overlap with the Pacific time zone. As a close-knit team, we want to have (virtual) face time with you and watch your cat roam in the background. We can't wait to meet you! What you'll do: **Product Design & Ownership** - Lead end-to-end design for the Manage product area: discovery and research through shipping and iteration - Shape how financial data is visualized for non-accountants: budget vs. actuals, burn rates, variance flags, and forecast views - Design complex, multi-stakeholder workflows for cross-team collaboration across grant professionals, finance teams, and program staff - Drive definition of completely greenfield spaces where the infrastructure is still being invented **AI & Systems Thinking** - Envision and design AI-powered features that free up grant professionals’ time and increase compliance - Bring systems thinking to data-dense, multi-entity problems: cut through complexity until it feels intuitive - Use AI tools actively in your design practice: prototyping, iteration, and thinking seriously about how AI advances product development **Design Quality & Collaboration** - Raise the quality bar across Instrumentl’s design system - Bring point of view into the room, push back when something isn’t right for users, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and GTM - Conduct and synthesize user research independently to surface insights and patterns