Senior Staff Software Engineer
Workstream3 days ago
Shanghai, China or Chengdu, ChinaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver strategic engineering initiatives across multiple squads.
- Own multi-squad systems architecture and establish scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective technical direction.
- Solve organization-wide engineering challenges and drive architectural improvements.
- Lead critical technical escalations and complex system incidents, including recovery and long-term reliability improvements.
- Shape AI-assisted development, automated incident response, and production safeguard strategies.
- Translate business problems into technical strategies with engineering, Product, and business stakeholders.
- Establish engineering best practices and mentor technical leads and senior engineers.
Requirements
- 10 to 12+ years of experience building, architecting, and scaling complex production software systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one mainstream programming language, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, or C#.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, problem-solving ability, and architectural design expertise.
- Proven experience owning complex systems and leading architecture and initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, security, performance, and architectural trade-offs.
- Experience leading high-impact projects, managing technical escalations, and making decisions under pressure.
- Strong strategic thinking, communication, and organizational influence skills.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and technical leads and building technical ownership across teams.
- Experience driving engineering improvements, technical standards, and adoption of new technologies.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience with Ruby on Rails or Node.js, with both considered a plus.
- Preferred familiarity with React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, and Terraform.
- Preferred experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows, agent-driven development, AI-powered incident management, and globally distributed engineering teams.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid schedule requiring one day per week in the office.
- Mission-driven work at an early-employee, Series B hyper-growth startup.
- Opportunity to work with the founding team and industry veterans.
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Comprehensive health coverage.
- In-office amenities and stocked kitchen.
- Flexible paid time off.
Tech Stack
AWSC#GoJavaJavaScriptMongoDBNode.jsPHPPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisRubyRuby on RailsTerraformTypeScript
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About Workstream
Workstream builds a mobile-first HR, payroll, and hiring platform for multi-unit restaurants and other employers of hourly frontline workers. Its SaaS centralizes applicant tracking, onboarding, scheduling, payroll, benefits, and compliance with features like text-to-apply and multilingual workflows. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves tens of thousands of U.S. locations, with notable customers including Burger King, KFC, IHOP, and Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s.