Braze

Staff Software Engineer, Messaging Experience

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4 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Partner on the technical vision, architecture, best practices, and quality standards for the division.
  • Lead large, ambiguous projects across multiple teams from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, and operational support.
  • Build and evolve shared orchestration frameworks, messaging-channel primitives, dashboard capabilities, and code-generation or developer-experience tooling.
  • Improve reliability, observability, error handling, rollout practices, and operational performance across dashboard and delivery layers.
  • Mentor engineers through coaching, code reviews, architecture reviews, and pairing while connecting technical decisions to business outcomes.
  • Design and implement foundational backend systems, frameworks, and services used by other engineers.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful technical leadership across multiple teams or complex product systems.
  • Experience building foundational backend systems at scale and complex, performant web-based user interfaces.
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails and proficiency in TypeScript and React.
  • Experience designing and shipping foundational infrastructure, frameworks, libraries, or platform services used by many engineers.
  • Strong architectural judgment, communication, mentoring, consensus-building, and execution skills in ambiguous environments.
  • Preferred experience with shared component libraries or design systems, real-time or event-driven architectures, developer-experience tooling, code generation, scaffolding, CI/CD for large codebases, and scaling products from early stage to enterprise scale.

Benefits

  • Hybrid way of working with a curated in-office employee experience.
  • Competitive compensation that may include equity, including restricted stock units for this role.
  • Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
  • Flexible paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
  • Fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
  • Professional development through career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
  • Volunteer Week, donation matching, Employee Resource Groups, and a collaborative workplace culture.

Tech Stack

ReactRuby on RailsTypeScript
Braze

About Braze

1,001-5,000 employees

Braze builds a customer engagement platform used by marketing teams to orchestrate cross-channel messaging across mobile, email, web, and more. The company sells its software via SaaS subscriptions with analytics, segmentation, and journey orchestration. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Braze is a public company (NASDAQ: BRZE) with global offices.

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