Staff Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and evolution of large, distributed systems powering live auctions, payments, search, recommendations, trust systems, growth funnels, and more.
• Own ambiguous, high-leverage technical problems from inception to production — and set long-term architectural direction.
• Act as technical lead for major initiatives, driving alignment across multiple teams without formal management authority.
• Balance urgency and technical excellence, making principled trade-offs for rapid iteration and long-term scalability.
• Raise engineering bar through design reviews, mentorship, and hands-on contributions to critical systems.
• Partner with leadership to identify highest-impact investments for scaling reliability, performance, and developer velocity.
• Help scale through hypergrowth, ensuring resilient systems as expanding globally.

Team members must live within commuting distance of Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle hubs. Flexibility to work from home or office hubs, valuing in-person time.

You

• 8+ years of full-time software engineering experience, including at high-growth tech companies with significant YoY user/revenue growth.
• Proven track record leading large technical initiatives in fast-scaling environments.
• Experience designing/evolving distributed systems at scale: service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, real-time systems, high-throughput APIs, data pipelines.
• Strong foundation in backend and frontend development; comfortable across layers and technologies (Python, Elixir, JavaScript).
• Strong sense of urgency, ownership; move quickly, unblock teams.
• Ability to act as technical lead without direct people management.
• Experience influencing architecture and technical strategy across teams.
• Excellent product instincts understanding technical impact on users/business.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity, defining problems and bringing structure.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and elevating quality via design rigor.

Benefits

• Generous holiday and time off.
• Health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision).
• Work from home support: home office setup, monthly cell/internet allowance.
• Care benefits: wellness, childcare, family planning allowances.
• Retirement: 401k with 4% match.
• Monthly app dogfooding allowance.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave + gradual return.