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Staff Software Engineer

200k – 210kNew York, NYEngineering ManagementHybrid10+ YOE
Summary

Lead cross-team strategic engineering initiatives and embed in teams to resolve urgent technical challenges. Requires 10+ years experience, strong architecture and distributed systems expertise, and hands-on coding ability.

About the role

What You’ll Do

Strategic & Cross-Team Impact

  • Lead and execute high-impact, cross-functional engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to identify delivery bottlenecks, architectural risks, and opportunities for operational improvement.
  • Drive alignment between teams on technical standards, architecture, scalability, and engineering best practices.
  • Help accelerate organizational delivery while maintaining a strong focus on software quality, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Influence technical direction and engineering strategy across the organization.

Embedded Team Support

  • Temporarily embed within engineering teams to tackle complex or urgent technical challenges.
  • Provide hands-on support during critical delivery periods, production incidents, migrations, or large-scale refactors.
  • Help teams improve velocity through mentorship, technical guidance, and pragmatic execution.
  • Assist teams in resolving architectural, performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
  • Contribute directly to implementation when necessary, including writing and reviewing production-grade code.

Technical Leadership

  • Serve as a technical mentor and trusted advisor to engineers and engineering managers.
  • Establish and promote engineering best practices, development standards, and scalable design patterns.
  • Lead architectural discussions and help teams make informed technical tradeoffs.
  • Advocate for operational excellence, observability, testing, security, and maintainability.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at a senior or staff engineering level.
  • Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from conception through delivery.
  • Strong expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, and modern engineering practices.
  • Demonstrated experience working across multiple teams, stakeholders, and technical domains.
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems and codebases.
  • Strong hands-on coding ability and willingness to contribute directly when needed.
  • Experience leveraging AI-driven engineering tools and workflows to enhance software delivery, improve engineering efficiency, and support scalable, high-quality development practices across teams.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to balance speed, pragmatism, and technical quality in fast-moving environments.

Nice to Have

  • Experience operating in high-growth or rapidly evolving engineering organizations.
  • Background in platform engineering, developer productivity, reliability engineering, or architecture-focused roles.
  • Experience leading incident response, system modernization, or organizational scaling initiatives.
  • Experience with Typescript, React, Golang and ability to pick up new technologies, languages, frameworks.
  • Familiarity with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and modern software delivery practices.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, & vision insurance, beginning day one
  • Health savings account with employer contribution
  • Generous PTO and paid holidays
  • Flexible working hours
  • 401(k)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Company sponsored short and long term disability
  • Flexible spending accounts (healthcare, dependent care, commuter)
  • Competitive salary
Skills
TypeScriptReactGolangAWSCI/CDObservabilitySoftware ArchitectureDistributed SystemsScalabilityMentorship
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