Staff Software Engineer - NYC Tri-State Area

About the role

This is not simply a feature delivery role. This is a systems-thinking role for an experienced engineer who can drive architecture, influence engineering standards, and help scale a platform, organization, and culture simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of scalable full-stack systems across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and platform infrastructure
• Drive architectural decisions that improve reliability, maintainability, performance, and developer velocity
• Identify and address technical debt, scalability bottlenecks, and operational risks before they become business constraints
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices around observability, testing, security, resiliency, and deployment workflows
• Contribute meaningfully to long-term platform and technical strategy
• Design and build modern web applications and services powering mission-critical healthcare workflows
• Develop highly performant frontend experiences using modern frameworks such as React or Vue
• Build backend systems and APIs using Node.js and distributed service architectures
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous requirements into elegant technical solutions
• Optimize systems for usability, reliability, and operational scale
• Partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Experience, and Operations to solve complex organizational and technical problems
• Act as a force multiplier by improving team decision-making, engineering processes, and development standards
• Facilitate technical discussions and drive alignment across teams with differing priorities
• Help teams balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Improve deployment reliability, monitoring, incident response, and production readiness practices
• Contribute to scaling Canopy’s cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platform
• Champion engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and operational rigor
• Help define and evolve engineering operating rhythms as the company scales
• Mentor and level up engineers through technical guidance, coaching, and example-setting
• Raise the bar on technical craftsmanship and systems thinking across the organization
• Foster a collaborative, high-accountability engineering culture rooted in curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Contribute to hiring and talent assessment for senior engineering candidates

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building and scaling production systems
• Demonstrated experience operating at Staff Engineer scope across teams or domains
• Strong expertise in modern full-stack application development
• Deep proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems, including React and/or Vue.js and Node.js
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
• Strong experience with cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes in production environments
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Proven ability to influence technical direction without formal authority
• Strong debugging, systems analysis, and architectural problem-solving capabilities

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, safety-critical, or high-availability environments
• Experience scaling SaaS platforms through periods of rapid growth
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, real-time systems, or location-aware platforms
• Experience improving engineering operational maturity in growing organizations
• Exposure to DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering practices

Skills

• Strong debugging, systems analysis, and architectural problem-solving capabilities

Benefits

Canopy offers a competitive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $200k - $230k per year, depending on location, experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Canopy offers flexible scheduling options to accommodate your needs.