Staff Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

Strategic & Cross-Team Impact

• Lead and execute high-impact, cross-functional engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Partner with engineering leadership to identify delivery bottlenecks, architectural risks, and opportunities for operational improvement.
• Drive alignment between teams on technical standards, architecture, scalability, and engineering best practices.
• Help accelerate organizational delivery while maintaining a strong focus on software quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Influence technical direction and engineering strategy across the organization.

Embedded Team Support

• Temporarily embed within engineering teams to tackle complex or urgent technical challenges.
• Provide hands-on support during critical delivery periods, production incidents, migrations, or large-scale refactors.
• Help teams improve velocity through mentorship, technical guidance, and pragmatic execution.
• Assist teams in resolving architectural, performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
• Contribute directly to implementation when necessary, including writing and reviewing production-grade code.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as a technical mentor and trusted advisor to engineers and engineering managers.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, development standards, and scalable design patterns.
• Lead architectural discussions and help teams make informed technical tradeoffs.
• Advocate for operational excellence, observability, testing, security, and maintainability.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at a senior or staff engineering level.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from conception through delivery.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, and modern engineering practices.
• Demonstrated experience working across multiple teams, stakeholders, and technical domains.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems and codebases.
• Strong hands-on coding ability and willingness to contribute directly when needed.
• Experience leveraging AI-driven engineering tools and workflows to enhance software delivery, improve engineering efficiency, and support scalable, high-quality development practices across teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to balance speed, pragmatism, and technical quality in fast-moving environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating in high-growth or rapidly evolving engineering organizations.
• Background in platform engineering, developer productivity, reliability engineering, or architecture-focused roles.
• Experience leading incident response, system modernization, or organizational scaling initiatives.
• Experience with Typescript, React, Golang and ability to pick up new technologies, languages, frameworks.
• Familiarity with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and modern software delivery practices.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, & vision insurance, beginning day one
• Health savings account with employer contribution
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Flexible working hours
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Company sponsored short and long term disability
• Flexible spending accounts (healthcare, dependent care, commuter)
• Competitive salary