Staff Engineer

Description

• Lead the design and architecture of complex systems, ensuring scalability and performance. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team, promoting best practices and high coding standards. • Write, review, and maintain code in a variety of languages and frameworks, such as NestJS, .NET, TypeScript, React. • Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering team leaders to define technical requirements for complex projects. • Manage and prioritize multiple projects and tasks, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software. • Identify and resolve complex technical issues, involving debugging, performance tuning, and optimizing code. • Advocate for and implement continuous improvement processes within the team. • Lead the full stack product engineering team in the development and maintenance of the infrastructure to support software applications.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in designing, building, and deploying large, scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures. • Proven ability to lead the design and architecture of complex systems, ensuring scalability and performance. • Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, particularly senior engineers, promoting best practices and high coding standards. • Strong capability to work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering team leaders to define technical requirements and ensure alignment with business goals. • Strong understanding of relational databases, including query optimization and data modeling principles. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Highly independent and curious, demonstrating efficiency in utilizing available resources and thinking creatively to find solutions. • Expertise in at least one framework, such as TypeScript, Next.js, JS, Nest, or React. • Hands-on experience with .NET and C#. • Practical experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, including containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Experience in developing infrastructure as code to deploy software applications, cloud services, front-end and back-end services, databases, and ci/cd pipelines. • Ability to work on-call rotation as incident escalation SME on weekend and holiday hours, at a cadence around once every 2-3 months.

Benefits

• Stock options • Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Financial benefits • Generous PTO • Stipends for professional development • Wellness benefits

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