
Staff Engineer
ParentSquare4 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$180k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with product owners, executive leadership, design, sales, and marketing to define and build simple, valuable solutions.
- Champion AI-native development practices and mentor the engineering organization on using AI to improve sprint velocity and code quality.
- Build and operate robust systems at scale while maintaining high security standards for schools.
- Help establish unified technical direction and a culture of technical excellence and speed.
- Review pull requests and design the future architecture, including the evolution of monolithic systems.
- Represent the engineering team in high-stakes discussions with non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Mastery of large-scale services using Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and PHP.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and AWS infrastructure.
- Experience with MySQL, Postgres, Aurora, RDS, and SQS.
- An AI-native development workflow using LLMs and AI agents to reduce boilerplate, accelerate debugging, and support architectural work.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to drive business value across technical and non-technical groups.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
Benefits
- Fully remote work with tools and equipment provided for a productive home office.
- Employer-paid health insurance, including dependent coverage.
- Employer-matched 401K retirement savings program starting on day one.
- Paid parental leave, stock options, health and wellness reimbursements, and PTO that increases each year.
- 15 paid holidays, including the employee’s birthday.