Staff Engineer, Full Stack

Description

• Own reliability outcomes across critical backend services and their integration with mobile clients (React Native). • Lead technical problem-solving during incidents: coordinate response, diagnose root causes, communicate status, and drive to resolution. • Build and evolve monitoring/observability (dashboards, alerts, tracing, logging) that enables fast detection and diagnosis. • Drive post‑incident reviews (blameless) and ensure learnings become durable fixes (tech changes, runbooks, automation, process updates). • Improve engineering safety and quality: guardrails, safer migrations, feature-flag practices, rollout strategies, and resilience patterns. • Partner with product, design, QA, and engineering early to align delivery plans with operational risk and reliability needs. • Strengthen documentation and onboarding: architecture notes, runbooks, service ownership docs, and “how we work” guides. • Mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, incident shadowing, and pragmatic coaching on production ownership.

Requirements

• Significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale, including debugging distributed systems and performance issues. • Strong Javascript/TypeScript/Node.js (or equivalent) backend experience; comfort working across services and APIs. • Proven incident response leadership: on-call participation, triage, mitigation, and root-cause analysis (RCA) with follow-through. • Solid observability skills: practical experience with logging/metrics/tracing and turning signals into actionable alerts and dashboards. • Experience collaborating with mobile teams and understanding mobile↔backend integration concerns (e.g., API compatibility, releases, feature flags). • Demonstrated Staff-level IC leadership: influence through design reviews, technical direction, documentation, and cross-team alignment.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours • Unlimited paid time off • A fully remote working situation • Home office budget • Learning & development budget • On demand therapy sessions and mental health support via Spill • In-person meet ups

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