# Software Engineer (Staff-Level)

**Company:** [Chestnut](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chestnut)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Temporal, Dagster, Postgres, Snowflake
**Posted:** 2025-07-30

> Staff-level software engineer leading design and implementation of critical systems for AI-driven insurance platform. Works across backend, data, infra, and frontend; 8+ years experience scaling complex systems required.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and implementation of critical systems that serve as building blocks for the platform
- Make architectural decisions that optimize for scale, performance, and maintainability
- Partner with product, design, and other engineering leaders to define roadmaps and scope technical investments
- Identify and unblock high-risk areas across teams, diving deep when needed
- Raise the bar for engineering excellence through mentorship, modeling, and thoughtful code review
- Help establish engineering culture, norms, and hiring standards as we grow

## You Might Be a Fit If You…
- Have 8+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems
- Have led architecture or technical strategy for a product or platform team
- Are comfortable working across backend, data, and infra layers (and diving into frontend when needed)
- Think in systems and excel at finding pragmatic solutions to messy problems
- Are excited to shape the technical direction of a growing company
- Have strong communication skills and enjoy working across disciplines
- Are energized by ambiguity, real-world data, and building for scale

## Our Stack
**Languages:** Go, TypeScript  
**Frontend:** React, Tailwind  
**Infra:** K8s, ArgoCD, Kargo, Temporal, Dagster  
**Data:** Postgres, Dynamo, Snowflake

## Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity, with 10 year exercise window for stock options
- Remote-first culture built on trust, autonomy, and high performance
- Team offsites for all of us to bond
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Top notch health, dental, and vision insurance subsidized by us

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