# Staff Software Engineer, Full-stack

**Company:** [Onebrief](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/onebrief)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, keycloak, OIDC, SAML, OAuth, jwt, Distributed Systems, API Design
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Staff full-stack engineer defining cross-squad technical strategy, building durable platform abstractions, and driving architectural decisions across a modern React/Node.js stack for AI-powered military collaboration software. Requires 12+ years experience, org-level architectural ownership, and sophisticated use of AI coding tools.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Define and drive cross-squad technical strategy, identifying systemic gaps, proposing architectural direction, and seeing complex initiatives through from framing to delivery.
- Shape the conditions for squads to succeed: establish durable abstractions, shared patterns, and platform primitives that reduce friction across teams.
- Operate in the highest-ambiguity spaces: problems that aren't yet well-formed enough to assign to a squad, where your job is to bring clarity and make them tractable.
- Drive architectural decisions that outlast any single squad rotation, balancing long-term system health with the pragmatic pace of a high-velocity org.
- Establish and evolve engineering norms: how the team uses AI-assisted development, what good code review looks like, and how we reason about build vs. buy vs. adopt decisions.
- Mentor and elevate engineers across squads through the quality of your reviews, your RFCs, and how you show up in technical conversations.
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap from a technical perspective, surfacing constraints and opportunities that aren't visible without deep system knowledge.

## What We Look For
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of technical ownership that spans teams, not just projects.
- Demonstrated ability to set architectural direction at the org or platform level.
- Fluency across the full stack, with the depth to go from frontend architecture to infrastructure trade-offs.
- Experience building in a squad or rotation-based model, or the clear instincts of someone who would thrive in one.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, data modeling, and cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
- Active and sophisticated use of AI coding tools, with a point of view on how they should be used well.
- Exceptional communication: the ability to write RFCs that get alignment, give feedback that lands, and make complex trade-offs legible to non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort in ambiguity: you make progress without waiting for full clarity, and you bring others along.

## Nice to Have
- Background in mission-critical or high-compliance domains (FedRAMP, SOC2, DoD).
- Experience with authentication and identity infrastructure at scale (OIDC, SAML, federated identity).
- Prior experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment scaling through significant inflection points.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and the trade-offs of async-first system design.

## Core Tech We Use
**Frontend:** React, TypeScript, Vite, shared component libraries, client-side observability.  
**Backend:** Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, secure RESTful APIs, distributed services.  
**Authentication & Authorization:** Keycloak, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, ABAC, JWT, federated identity provider integrations.  
**Infrastructure:** Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, container security and secrets management.  
**Integrations:** CSV/Excel/KML importers, PDF exports, DoD and enterprise data systems, secure API gateways, auditing pipelines.

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