Staff Software Engineer

4 days ago

Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$150k - $178k/yr

Responsibilities

Lead software and design reviews, establish development standards, and guide technical decisions aligned with strategic product goals.
Participate in the full application lifecycle, including coding, debugging, deployment, maintenance, and advanced troubleshooting.
Build scalable web applications, reusable code, libraries, and API-first software projects.
Develop and maintain environment configurations, monitor system health, and support production systems through on-call incident response.
Optimize application, database, caching, and system performance, including troubleshooting bottlenecks and implementing improvements.
Enhance development tools, test coverage, code structure, and UI, unit, integration, and automation testing.
Collaborate with developers, designers, system administrators, engineering teams, product teams, customers, and vendors.
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical training and support to internal teams.
Manage and improve legacy applications using modern technologies while gathering and addressing technical and design requirements.

At least 8 years of related software development experience, or 6 years with an advanced degree.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven full-stack development experience.
Strong experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React and Angular, along with HTML and CSS.
Understanding of the complete software development process, including design, development, and deployment.
Experience developing and deploying applications for cloud-native infrastructure and using Kubernetes.
Advanced experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and caching mechanisms.
Deep understanding and practical application of REST API best practices, including security, scalability, and performance.
Experience with monitoring and supporting production systems, system performance optimization, OpenTelemetry, and on-call rotations.
Advanced testing experience including unit tests, UI automation tests, and integration tests.
Strong analytical, time-management, written communication, verbal communication, independent problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, SaaS experience in technology or financial industries, Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes experience, and cross-platform mobile development experience with Flutter.

1,001-5,000 employees