Staff Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Drive Strategy: Balance short-term delivery pressure against long-term technical health, knowing exactly when to push back on requirements that create unsustainable technical cost.
• Connect the Dots: Translate complex business goals into technical implementations for leadership and represent the engineering perspective in cross-functional planning.
• Own the Outcome: You are responsible for work that is visibly connected to customer satisfaction and revenue outcomes.
• Set the Bar: Establish the technical quality bar for the team and write code that serves as the gold-standard reference implementation for others.
• System Design: Architect multi-component systems across the team's domain, producing technical design documents reviewed by the broader organization.
• Modernize: Identify systemic quality issues like tech debt hotspots or test coverage gaps, and build the roadmaps for necessary migrations and remediation.
• Tooling: Onboard new patterns and languages as business needs evolve, ensuring we make correct long-term technology choices.
• Lead Workstreams: Drive the delivery of entire projects across multiple engineers, managing cross-team dependencies and owning technical roadmaps tied to product milestones.
• Quality Ownership: Own the end-to-end product surface, including correctness, reliability, latency, and user experience.
• User Advocacy: Run lightweight discovery
• such as user interviews or support ticket analysis
• to translate findings into engineering priorities.
• Accountability: Hold the team accountable for shipping software that solves real user problems, not just software that passes tests.
• Growth: You are responsible for the technical growth of your peers through coaching, 1:1s, and leading hiring panels.
• Culture: Drive a culture of psychological safety and high performance.
• Alignment: Drive alignment on contentious technical decisions by explaining the "why" behind ambiguous choices.

Requirements

• You’re a Seasoned Builder: You have a track record of building complex systems from scratch and can articulate your specific impact.
• Problem Solver: You don't wait for the perfect Jira ticket; you figure out what needs to happen to move the needle and you do it.
• AI-Native Mindset: You already use AI tools to maximize your own workload and are eager to help others do the same.

Benefits

• No Legacy Debt: You’ll be writing new code on a modern Node/TS/GCP stack.
• Significant Equity: Join early and take a meaningful stake in the future we are building.
• The AI Playground: Get hands-on with OpenAI, Langfuse, and Vertex AI to ship production features that impact real lives.