Staff Software Engineer
Leads architectural decisions, contributes 70% hands-on code, and mentors in fast-paced fintech SaaS platform using TypeScript/React/NextJS/Python/AWS. Requires 7+ years experience balancing quality, speed, and reliability.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Drive architectural decisions for long-term stability in a fast-growing banking platform.
- Contribute ~70% high-quality code and ~30% collaborate with stakeholders/mentor.
- Lead complex initiatives by chunking work for parallelization and production delivery.
- Mentor team members and drive engineering best practices.
- Build SaaS applications optimizing complexity, quality, and speed.
- Fine-tune controls and communication for predictability and reliability.
Tech Stack
- TypeScript, React, NextJS, Postgres with Prisma, Python, AWS
Requirements
- 7+ years software engineering in fast-paced production SaaS environments.
- Holistic understanding of web architectures.
- Thrive in high-velocity environments with decision-making under pressure.
- Quality-first mentality with bias for action and trade-offs.
- Deep expertise in modern languages/web frameworks, relational data modeling, distributed cloud.
- Security, reliability, compliance awareness (Fintech/Healthcare nice-to-have).
- Strategic problem-solving from business goals to technical solutions.
What You'll Get
- Competitive compensation: salary, benefits, potential equity.
Skills
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres, Prisma, Python, AWS, Relational Databases, Web Architectures, SaaS
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