# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [TheGuarantors](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/theguarantors)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $200k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Go, AWS, CI/CD, Observability, Software Architecture, Distributed Systems, Scalability, Mentorship
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Lead cross-team strategic engineering initiatives and embed in teams to resolve urgent technical challenges. Requires 10+ years experience, strong architecture and distributed systems expertise, and hands-on coding ability.

## Job Description

## 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

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