Senior Full-Stack Staff Engineer

Description

• Lead the design and delivery of complex full-stack solutions across frontend, backend, API, and platform integration layers • Provide architectural direction for scalable, maintainable, secure, and high-performing web applications • Drive technical decisions across multiple services, repositories, and shared components • Translate business and product requirements into technical designs, execution plans, and delivery milestones • Identify architectural gaps, technical debt, and platform limitations, and propose pragmatic solutions • Build and guide modern web experiences using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, REST/GraphQL APIs, cloud services, and CI/CD pipelines • Own technical deliverables from design through implementation, validation, release, and post-production monitoring • Lead technical breakdown of large initiatives into epics, stories, dependencies, and implementation plans • Resolve complex production issues, integration challenges, and cross-system dependencies • Embed testability, automation, and observability into the development lifecycle • Define unit, integration, functional, E2E, and production validation strategies • Drive improvements in web performance, including Core Web Vitals, page load time, bundle optimization, caching, and API efficiency • Improve developer productivity through reusable frameworks, shared libraries, tooling, documentation, and streamlined workflows • Partner with Product, XD, Program, Content, Marketing, DevOps, Security, Data/Analytics, and engineering teams • Communicate technical trade-offs and present risks, mitigation plans, and recommended paths to leadership • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and delivery execution • Promote high standards in architecture, quality, documentation, reliability, and operational readiness

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on full-stack web application expertise • Deep experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, or similar frontend frameworks • Strong backend development experience with Node.js, Java, Python, or similar technologies • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, microservices, or distributed systems • Ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple engineers, teams, services, or repositories • Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, security, scalability, reliability, and observability • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, production deployments, and release validation • Strong system design skills and sound architectural trade-off judgment • Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority • Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical topics to engineering and business stakeholders • Preferred: experience with large-scale web, commerce, marketing technology, or customer-facing digital platforms • Preferred: experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP • Preferred: experience with CMS, experimentation, personalization, analytics instrumentation, or commerce checkout flows • Preferred: experience with micro-frontends, monorepos, shared component libraries, design systems, or platform engineering • Preferred: experience improving developer experience, engineering productivity, and CI/CD automation • Preferred: experience with Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Splunk, Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar observability tools • Preferred: experience driving E2E automation, performance testing, monitoring, and production readiness • Exposure to AI-assisted engineering or agentic engineering workflows is a plus

Benefits

• Annual cash bonuses may be included • Commissions for sales roles may be included • Stock grants may be included • Comprehensive benefits package • Health and financial benefits • Time away benefits • Everyday wellness benefits • In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be required

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