Staff Software Engineer

Key Responsibility

• Technical Leadership
• Lead architecture and design for large-scale, high-impact systems and services.
• Drive engineering best practices across teams including code quality, testing, scalability, and observability.
• Identify and solve complex technical challenges that span multiple services or teams.
• System Design & Scalability
• Design distributed systems and services that are highly scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead initiatives around platform modernization and technical debt reduction.
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to shape product strategy and technical roadmap.
• Work across teams to align architecture decisions and engineering practices.
• Influence technical direction across the organization.
• Mentorship & Engineering Excellence
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.
• Help raise the overall engineering bar through design reviews, architecture guidance, and technical coaching.

Required Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building scalable distributed systems and backend services.
• Expertise in modern backend technologies (commonly used stacks include languages such as Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Python, Go, or similar).
• Deep understanding of:
• System design and architecture
• Microservices and APIs
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Database design (SQL and/or NoSQL)
• Experience influencing engineering teams without direct authority.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams.