# Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

**Company:** [WorkWhile](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/workwhile)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $310k/yr
**Skills:** JavaScript, React, React Native, Python, Frontend Development, Backend Development, System Design, Product Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> Own and evolve complex user-facing product areas end-to-end. Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape roadmap decisions and lead cross-stack initiatives.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Own and evolve complex, user-facing product areas end-to-end - from product definition and system design to implementation, launch, and iteration
- Partner closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape roadmap decisions and translate ambiguous problems into durable solutions
- Lead high-leverage initiatives that span frontend, backend, and data concerns, setting clear technical direction and guiding execution
- Make thoughtful tradeoffs between user experience, system complexity, and delivery speed in a fast-moving product environment
- Raise the bar on product quality, system correctness, and engineering craft across the stack
- Act as a force multiplier for the team: reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and unblocking others

## What we're looking for
- Significant experience building and owning product systems end-to-end, with depth in either frontend (JavaScript, React/React Native) or backend (Python)
- Strong working fluency across the stack, with the ability to lead product work beyond your primary area of expertise
- A product-minded approach to engineering — you care deeply about user outcomes, not just technical elegance
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity: framing problems, proposing options, and guiding teams toward pragmatic solutions
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical and product direction across disciplines
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising team-wide technical quality (people management not required)

## Nice to have
- Experience working on marketplace, fintech, or data-sensitive products
- Background in scaling early-stage products or evolving systems as usage grows
- Interest in shaping engineering practices and standards as the team scales

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