Staff Software Engineer
Designs and builds robust backend infrastructure for mortgage servicing platform handling billions in loans at scale. Requires 7+ years experience building scalable systems, with Python/React/Docker/K8s/GCP stack expertise.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Leads organization-wide technical architecture initiatives, including international expansion and enterprise systems, with hands-on coding in high-risk areas. Requires 15+ years engineering experience, 5+ in leadership, expertise in Ruby/Go/Python, microservices, and data pipelines.
257k – 302kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringHybrid15+ YOE
About the role
What you'll do
- Proactively identify the top opportunities for impact for the engineering organization
- Own direction and lead execution of organization-wide technical efforts
- Hands-on contribution in areas with a high degree of business risk
- Break down very complex projects into simple systems that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
- Create documents to set standards of architectural best practices that the broader engineering organization consumes
- Upskill the Staff Engineers in the company to systematically raise the bar for quality and scale
- Inform buy vs build decisions, supporting broad business strategy
- Deeply understand customer, partner, and product team needs, and represent your teams in technical conversations with company leadership
What you bring
- Degree in computer science or related field (Bachelor's or Master's)
- 2+ years leading architecture projects across an organization
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership role
- 15+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience developing in Ruby, GoLang, and Python
- Solid understanding of cloud technologies and all layers of backend stacks
- Deep understanding of microservices design and asynchronous queueing models
- Experience designing and maintaining real-time & batch processing data pipelines serving up billions of data points
- Experience mentoring engineering and product teams in domain-driven design
- Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams
- Strong collaboration, communication, and project management skills
- A strong sense of ownership
- A great desire to learn, collaborate, improve, and innovate
Skills
RubyGoPythonCloud TechnologiesMicroservicesAsynchronous QueueingData PipelinesDomain-Driven Design
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