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Staff Software Engineer

230k – 270kNew York, NYOnsite7+ YOE
Summary

Staff Software Engineer leading complex technical initiatives, system architecture, and mentoring at an early-stage NYC fintech startup building fund management software.

About the role

What You'll Do

Build: Design, architect, and implement solutions to the hardest technical problems facing the company, whether that’s performance bottlenecks, data correctness issues, system scalability, architectural debt, or cross-cutting platform concerns.

Lead: Act as a technical leader across teams by setting standards, influencing architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices. You’ll step in where problems are most complex or blocked and help teams move forward with clarity and confidence.

Partner: Work closely with product, design, and domain experts to translate unclear or evolving requirements into robust technical solutions. You’ll help teams make smart tradeoffs and build systems that are flexible, reliable, and easy to evolve.

Who You Are

  • Collaborative. You collaborate well across teams, can distill and incorporate feedback, and communicate clearly and concisely.
  • Product Vision. You have a full understanding of how to identify the true needs of the user through research, build through a user-centric lens, and create elegant and functional experiences.
  • Leader. You're eager to shape our technical foundation and will level up team practices and processes. You can take broad guidance and determine the best path forward.
  • Strategic. You see both the forest and the trees: think big picture, execute fine details.
  • Deeply Technical. You'll work on systems that process millions of records in near real-time, requiring thoughtful approaches to data pipelines, caching strategies, and distributed processing.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of working experience as an engineer building and shipping world class products with experience handling systems that process millions of records in near real-time.
  • Have led product initiatives and have taken features from idea through launch.
  • Expert level knowledge of backend system architecture and system design.
  • Experience with a diverse range of technologies.
  • Experience with Django or similar Python frameworks.
  • Experience with Celery/Temporal or other distributed worker frameworks.
  • Experience with Redis/SQS.
  • Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
  • Experience with Postgres or other SQL solutions.
  • Some full stack experience, such as work with Typescript and React.
  • Have mentored engineers, been the tech lead for projects and products, and helped build strong engineering cultures.
  • Experience working in a fast paced environment to ship features. A plus to have with experience at early stage startups.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + equity package.
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits (Maybern covers 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums).
  • HSA & FSA plans.
  • Family-Friendly policies including paid parental leave.
  • Flexible schedule and flexible PTO / sick leave.
  • WFH as needed.
  • 401k.
Skills
PythonDjangoCeleryTemporalRedisSQSAWSPostgreSQLTypeScriptReact
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