Staff Software Engineer

Together for Talent is a mission-driven, faith-based media organization creating and sharing authentic content through large-scale public campaigns. The Staff Software Engineer will serve in a hands-on full-stack role, leading architecture, documentation, disaster recovery, security, scalability, and technical direction while remaining actively involved in the codebase.

Responsibilities:

• Drive build-vs-buy and major architecture/migration decisions, and be able to speak to the tradeoffs, not just the execution
• Own technical documentation as a real deliverable, design docs, runbooks, and architecture decision records, not an afterthought
• Lead on disaster recovery and incident response, including writing and executing DR plans
• Bring security thinking beyond a checklist: threat modeling, access control design, and leading security reviews
• Solve real scalability problems, whether that's traffic spikes, data growth, or architecture that needs to evolve under real-world pressure
• Be the person the team turns to for technical direction, while staying genuinely hands-on in the codebase

Requirements:

• 7-10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful experience operating at the Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent level
• Deep, production experience with Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, and a modern cloud stack (AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare, or similar)
• A track record of driving specific technical decisions, not just participating in them, regardless of your current title
• Strong instincts around documentation, security, and operational resilience
• Comfortable operating at a senior/staff level of scope even if your title hasn't caught up yet
• BSCS or equivalent technical degree preferred