# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [BuildOps](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/buildops)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $197k – $262k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, Node.js, GraphQL, TypeScript, Postgres, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, REST APIs, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-05-11

> Leads full-stack architecture and development using React.js, Node.js, GraphQL, and cloud infrastructure. Drives technical initiatives, mentors engineers, and optimizes scalability across teams. Requires 8+ years experience in modern JS environments.

## Job Description

## 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

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