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Staff Full Stack Engineer - Premium Merchant Experiences

Leads technical strategy and hands-on development for premium merchant product experiences, designing and operating reliable end-to-end systems while mentoring engineers and driving delivery. Requires 10+ years of backend or full-stack experience and strong technical leadership, communication, and product judgment.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate production systems, emphasizing extensibility, reliability, and usability.
  • Write and review code regularly, setting the pace and elevating standards for the team.
  • Build high-quality end-to-end product experiences with strong attention to user needs.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and navigate organizational complexity.
  • Partner with Engineering Management, the Product Manager, and company leaders to create and pursue the long-term vision.
  • Unblock the team against short-term and long-term roadmaps, making tradeoffs across business priorities, user experience, and technical sustainability.
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
  • Teach and mentor engineers and develop future technical leaders.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional backend or full-stack development experience, including active code writing and review.
  • Experience setting and executing long-term technical strategy for a large product area.
  • Ability to prioritize competing requirements and stakeholders while iteratively shipping product features.
  • Proven technical leadership, including meaningful contributions to the growth of other engineers.
  • Superb communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • User empathy and a customer-centric approach to problem-solving and product development.

Nice-to-haves

  • Full-stack development experience, particularly with React and Ruby.
  • Desire to continuously learn and grow as an engineer while shipping impactful work.

Skills

React, Ruby, JavaScript, Full-Stack Development, Backend Development, Production Systems, Technical Strategy, Code Review, System Reliability, Product Development