Staff Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

This role is based onsite at our American Fork headquarters.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide Strategic Technical Leadership: Drive backend architecture, technical direction, and robust engineering design standards across production services.
• Ship High-Impact Backend Architecture: Deliver high-velocity, clean, and scalable Node.js/TypeScript code for business-critical backend systems and API services.
• Elevate Engineering Standards: Implement modern methodologies, best practices, and code quality benchmarks to ensure high reliability, maintainability, and software performance.
• Optimize Development Lifecycles: Identify system bottlenecks, streamline CI/CD workflows, and introduce tooling that enhances team-wide developer productivity and delivery speed.
• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Product Management, QA, and DevOps to translate product visions into concrete technical specifications, accurate estimates, and seamless delivery timelines.
• Identify Root Causes and Resolve Complex Edge Cases: Navigate ambiguous requirements and complex technical challenges, applying rigorous problem-solving to protect uptime and system resilience.
• Act as a Go-To Thought Leader & Mentor: Mentor senior and mid-level software engineers through structured feedback, architectural design reviews, and continuous technical upskilling.
• Pioneer Emerging Technologies: Continually evaluate industry trends, tools, and modern cloud/API frameworks to optimize LVT’s backend suite for future growth.

Requirements

• Technical Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Extensive Backend Experience: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience centered on complex backend systems, cloud services, and API development.
• Node.js & TypeScript Expertise: 3+ years of hands-on production experience architecting, building, and maintaining enterprise Node.js and TypeScript services.
• API Design & Optimization: Demonstrated expertise in OpenAPI/REST API design and hands-on experience building or optimizing GraphQL queries and mutations.
• Modern Frameworks & Infrastructure: Familiarity with modern framework ecosystems (e.g., NestJS) and containerized deployment workflows utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Data Modeling: Proficiency with relational databases (SQL experience preferred) and modern database query optimization.
• Technical Mentorship & Influence: Proven experience guiding cross-functional technical teams, establishing engineering culture, and driving process improvements within Agile environments.
• Quality & Ownership Mindset: Obsessive commitment to system reliability, operational quality, thorough testing, and robust root-cause problem solving.
• Adaptable Leadership: Highly effective communication skills with the versatility to thrive in a fast-paced environment and pivot rapidly between priorities.