Staff Software Engineer

Description

• Set technical direction: Own the architecture and high-level design for new services and critical system evolutions, ensuring scalability, observability, and fault tolerance.

• Embrace cradle-to-grave stewardship: craft the design, guide it through delivery, and stand behind it in production, continuously validating with SLIs/SLOs and blameless post-mortems.

• Lead by example: Deliver production code daily—primarily in Node.js/TypeScript—and champion best practices in testing, CI/CD, documentation, and incident response.

• Mentor & multiply: Coach senior and mid-level engineers, provide actionable feedback, and foster a culture of learning, psychological safety, and engineering excellence.

Requirements

• 8 + years of professional software engineering experience, including 2 + years at a Staff or Tech-Lead level influencing multiple teams.

• Deep expertise in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript plus strong knowledge of modern JS tooling, build systems, and package management.

• Hands-on experience designing cloud-native systems on AWS (ECS / EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, or similar, SQS/SNS, IAM).

• Ability to translate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and drive alignment across Engineering, Product, and SRE.

• Passion for mentoring, constructive code review, and fostering an inclusive, high-impact culture.

• Prior experience in fintech, payroll, or other regulated domains.

• Formal background in security engineering or compliance audits (PCI, SOC 2, FedRAMP).

• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code and pipeline development (GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS CodePipeline, CloudFormation) Exposure to Temporal, MongoDB/Document DBs, or graph databases.

Benefits

• Offers Equity

• Offers Bonus

Copyright © ReadingWaters 2025.