Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of foundational technology capabilities that support multiple products and teams.
• Design and build scalable backend systems and distributed applications.
• Drive architectural decisions and establish engineering best practices.
• Lead technical design reviews and contribute to long-term platform strategy.
• Build highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Develop integration frameworks and services connecting multiple systems and data sources.
• Partner with engineers across teams to improve platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through code reviews and technical guidance.
• Remain hands-on and contribute to the most challenging technical projects.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Python and backend development.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and scalable platform architecture.
• Prominent track record designing systems used by multiple teams or products.
• Strong system design, data modeling, and software architecture skills.
• Experience operating production systems at scale.
• Adequate ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI-powered applications or platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and modern infrastructure.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms and integrations.
• Prior Staff or Principal Engineer experience.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering large-scale, business-critical systems.