Staff Software Engineer, Community Builders

Responsibilities

• Define and accelerate backend architecture for growth levers including feeds, search, and onboarding surfaces to drive community engagement.
• Partner with Engineering Manager to cultivate growth engineering mindset focused on experimentation, velocity, and reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams (Relevance, Feeds, Search) on ML-powered systems for community surfacing.
• Establish instrumentation and experimentation foundations for A/B tests, using metrics from funnels and retention to inform architecture.
• Serve as engineering voice in cross-functional partnerships with Product, Design, Data Science; align on roadmaps and technical feasibility.
• Advocate for reliability, scalability, and maintainability; lead design reviews and establish engineering patterns.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience steering cross-team projects solving business problems.
• Systems thinker integrating code, product, and team dynamics; strategic planning and mentoring.
• Data-informed with focus on metrics, experimentation, funnels, and retention.
• Comfortable with growth-team ambiguity, fast prototyping, and pivoting based on data.
• Strong communication to distill technical trade-offs for diverse audiences.
• Experience with ranking, recommendations, personalization, ML-heavy products, backend architectures, retrieval systems, inference pipelines, candidate generation, scoring, Two-Tower models.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare and income replacement.
• 401k with employer match.
• Global benefits including workspace, professional development, caregiving.
• Family planning, gender-affirming care, mental health support.
• Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time, generous parental leave.