Staff Engineer

Summary

Join our amazing engineering team as a senior technical leader to drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building and maintaining large scale backend software products and systems
• Expert at designing and building modular distributed applications to support an extremely rapidly growing customer base(100x)
• Solid understanding of the current landscape of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient usage of compute, storage, network and virtualization technologies. (preferably AWS)

Responsibilities

• Define forward looking architectures through creation of designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs value and gaining buy in from key technical, product and business stakeholders
• Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans and roadmaps that align with the product vision of our organization and in conjunction with technical leads
• Coach and mentor senior level engineers in our organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency and technical capability
• Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance and require less human intervention
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Raise the bar of our team’s standards resulting in cleaner, well documented and higher quality code
• Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering systems that are fast, horizontally scalable and reliable
• Speak up and advocate for forward looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental

Benefits

• A great 401(k) plan: Our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation (immediately vested) and $0 plan fees
• Top-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance
• Generous PTO and parental leave policies
• Addition Wealth - Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness
• Lyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents
• Carrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits
• Candidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt
• Monthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend