Staff Software Engineer

Flowcode is a company seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help grow and build their core platform that powers the Flowcode 2 application at scale. The role involves technical leadership, focusing on creating reliable and scalable services while mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own critical systems end-to-end, including design, implementation and deployment
• Hands on designing, building, and maintaining scalable features across a modern front-end framework and backend services
• Architect for growth — help drive your pods’s technical roadmap and shepherd established engineering best practices
• Collaborate across teams with product, design, and data to deliver measure, deliver and grows features quickly and iteratively
• Mentor and guide senior engineers, raising the bar for technical execution and system design across teams
• Balance ideal engineering with the realities of speed, customer needs, and startup resource constraints
• Drive improvements in observability, performance, and incident response
• Advocate for pragmatic solutions, solving the right problems with the appropriate level of complexity

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems, with a strong backend focus
• Deep expertise in building high-performance, concurrent services
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
• Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, and consistency tradeoffs
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern deployment patterns (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in several modern backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, C#, Java)
• Commitment to code quality, with solid grounding in design patterns, testing, and CI/CD
• Strong grasp of scalability and performance, able to make informed tradeoffs between speed and correctness
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• A builder's mentality, comfortable taking initiative and owning outcomes from design through production
• A history of working within 20+ person engineering organizations and collaborating with Product and Design to enable feature delivery at a reasonable velocity