Staff Software Engineer: Growth Engineering

About the role

This is a high-impact engineering opportunity focused on building the foundational systems that enable product teams to scale quickly and independently. You will work across the full stack, with a strong backend focus, developing reliable APIs, shared services, and scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable full-stack applications, with a particular focus on backend services, GraphQL APIs, and Python-based systems.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities that support authentication, authorization, integrations, deployments, jobs, queues, and other shared engineering needs.
• Design and operate reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure while contributing across both application and infrastructure layers.
• Lead large and ambiguous technical initiatives by creating technical specifications, RFCs, implementation plans, timelines, and cross-team dependencies.
• Partner closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to establish technical direction and deliver complex initiatives successfully.
• Improve engineering velocity by identifying bottlenecks, automating manual processes, and establishing scalable patterns, conventions, and abstractions.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, technical documentation, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Contribute to architectural and strategic engineering discussions, technical forums, and cross-team initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback on technical designs, code, and implementation approaches.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities, troubleshoot production issues, lead remediation efforts, and identify opportunities to improve system reliability.
• Help ensure systems meet applicable security, privacy, and regulatory requirements, including HIPAA and GDPR standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience using one or more general-purpose programming languages.
• At least 2 years of production experience in full-stack web development, including Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and React Native.
• Strong experience with backend development using technologies such as Django, Flask, FastAPI, GraphQL, and REST APIs.
• Proven experience designing and scaling relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Demonstrated ability to independently break down highly ambiguous problems, develop technically sound solutions, and drive initiatives through delivery.
• Experience writing technical specifications or RFCs and leading projects that span multiple technical domains or engineering teams.
• Strong systems thinking, technical judgment, and architectural skills, with an ability to create reusable solutions that simplify complex systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating effectively within distributed development teams.
• Strong ownership mindset, practical problem-solving skills, and a bias toward action and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, React, React Native, TypeScript, and modern cloud-based development environments.
• Experience with authorization technologies such as SSO, SAML, OIDC, or JWT is a plus.
• Experience applying AI or LLM-powered capabilities to products or development workflows is advantageous.
• Experience working in high-growth startups, health technology, or HR technology environments is a plus.
• Passion for using technology to create products and services that positively impact people's lives.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ranging from $137,000 to $203,000 USD, depending on location and relevant qualifications.
• Eligibility for an equity compensation program.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account option.
• Flexible Spending Account.
• Access to coaches and therapists through the organization's mental health platform.
• Flexible Time Off and company-wide Collective Pause Days.
• Parental leave and family-forming benefits.
• Family assistance and backup childcare support.
• Professional development stipend.
• Annual wellness stipend.
• New-hire stipend to support a work-from-home setup.
• Monthly cell phone reimbursement.
• Virtual community events, employee resource groups, team-building activities, and other engagement opportunities.
• Fully remote work environment with required overlapping working hours to support collaboration across distributed teams.