Staff Software Engineer, Core GRC

What you’ll do

• Partner with Product to shape roadmap requirements and recommend the right technologies and design patterns.
• Review architecture and code for your team’s projects to ensure quality, scalability, and security—while empowering the team to own implementation and delivery.
• Troubleshoot performance and scalability issues escalated from your teams. Identify root causes, guide solutions, and see them through to resolution.
• Own and deliver cross-team projects that are difficult to tackle at the team level—such as introducing new frameworks, improving the developer experience, or migrating shared functionality.
• Mentor engineers across teams through guilds, office hours, and informal coaching.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong foundation in building and maintaining production systems.
• 3+ years of experience working with Node.js or React in production environments.
• 1+ years of experience with NestJS (preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience with authentication & authorization protocols like OAuth, SCIM, OIDC, and RBAC systems.
• In-depth knowledge of authentication and authorization systems from large third-party providers.
• Strong proficiency with:
  • JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming
  • Building and consuming RESTful web services
  • Networking protocols and relational databases
  • Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
  • Using logging and telemetry tools to monitor and debug production systems
  • Working with Git and modern CI/CD practices
  • At least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) or infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Nice to have experience with:
  • AI-assisted development tools
  • TypeORM, Jest, Redis, and ElasticSearch

Success in this role

• Successfully completed the migration of a large company to a complex, third-party authentication system.
• Led groups of engineers through feature delivery, from scoping and ticket creation to implementation and release.
• Owned major products or features, balancing technical tradeoffs like quality vs. speed or team autonomy vs. alignment.
• Built and scaled real-world web applications.
• Worked in fast-paced environments, such as startups or growth-stage companies.
• Communicated architectural decisions clearly across teams and kept stakeholders informed through status updates.
• Balanced individual contributor work with time spent mentoring or unblocking teammates.
• Adopted new technologies and introduced them thoughtfully into a codebase.
• Used product development methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, or Lean.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary: $200,700 - $271,500.
• Stock equity (RSUs).
• Up to 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums.
• 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance.
• Paid Parental Leave after six months.
• Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits.
• Generous annual stipends for professional and personal development.
• Flexible vacation policy and paid holidays.