# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [RentSpree](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rentspree)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, MongoDB, Postgres, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2025-07-23

> Leads end-to-end development of consumer-facing web features with frontend focus, driving architecture, mentoring engineers, and collaborating cross-functionally. Requires 8+ years experience, deep React/Next.js expertise, and full-stack fluency.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end development of user-facing features across web and backend systems
- Champion front-end architecture, performance, and accessibility best practices
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate customer needs into thoughtful, scalable solutions
- Drive technical decision-making and execution on complex initiatives
- Contribute to and shape our engineering standards, architecture, and tooling
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to the growth of engineering culture and technical excellence
- Balance delivery speed and quality, making pragmatic choices around trade-offs
- Help evolve our UI component systems, frontend infrastructure, and testing strategies

## Skills You Bring
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including leadership on high-impact projects
- Proven ability to ship production features end-to-end, including frontend UI, APIs, and backend services
- Deep expertise in modern front-end technologies (**React**, **JavaScript/TypeScript**, **Next.js**)
- Full-stack fluency, including experience with backend technologies (e.g., **Node.js**, **GraphQL/REST APIs**, **MongoDB**, **PostgreSQL**, cloud platforms)
- Proven ability to drive technical direction and architecture in cross-functional settings across multiple teams
- Strong product sense and empathy for end users
- Experience mentoring engineers and helping grow technical capabilities on a team
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving requirements

**Bonus Points**
- Experience with design systems or large-scale UI infrastructure
- Track record of delivering consumer-scale web applications
- Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and product iteration cycles
- Exposure to **CI/CD** pipelines, monitoring, and production readiness best practices

## Compensation
- **$230-270k base**
- Equity Options

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