Staff Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Architect, build, and maintain our full-stack platform, including React.js applications and high-performance backend services built with Node.js, GraphQL, and REST API’s
• Lead technical decisions across the stack, balancing performance, maintainability, scalability, and developer experience
• Design and optimize APIs and service patterns that support both our product experiences and third-party integrations
• Improve database design, query performance, and data models to ensure efficient storage and retrieval at scale
• Drive observability and operational excellence across services through logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, and performance analysis
• Contribute to and lead engineering-wide initiatives that improve customer experience, system performance, productivity, and knowledge sharing
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, patterns, and tooling that improve engineering efficiency and platform quality
• Define and reinforce strong testing practices across the stack in partnership with QA and engineering teams
• Mentor engineers through technical design reviews, architecture discussions, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Influence multiple engineering groups through technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration, not just direct ownership

What We Look For

Must-Have Skills

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong depth in modern JavaScript/TypeScript environments and experience leading large technical initiatives
• Strong experience building and evolving full-stack systems, with meaningful expertise in both frontend and backend architecture
• Deep experience with Node.js, GraphQL (Apollo or Relay), and RESTful services in production systems
• Strong experience with React.js and scalable frontend architecture, including performance and state management considerations
• Proficiency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design and query optimization
• Experience with event-driven systems, messaging infrastructure, and real-time data processing
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or similar environments
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and scalable deployment practices
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar through influence, clarity, and execution
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills, with the ability to align engineers and partners across teams

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with Python for backend services, tooling, or automation workflows
• Experience improving design systems or UI platform foundations in partnership with frontend teams
• Experience leading initiatives that span platformization, service architecture, APIs, or financial/accounting systems
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Compensation

$197,000 - $262,000 base salary range + annual bonus