Staff Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Staff Engineer with a focus on the backend to help scale the team and product. The employee will solve technical challenges, provide a great developer experience, and share the obsession for providing a great developer experience. The ideal candidate is a 10x engineer with leadership skills, excellent technical abilities, and a clear communicator.

Requirements

• Be a 10x engineer looking to do great work
• Experience building and designing high scale and high availability systems, including a deep understanding of infrastructure, databases, and common backend patterns
• Excellent technical, architectural (system design), diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Have a great taste in software and API design, with great instincts for what great looks like
• Be a clear communicator that is great to work with
• Have strong leadership and organizational abilities
• Be obsessed with shipping and high engineering velocity, while maintaining high stability
• Having previously worked as a staff engineer, tech lead, or a similar role
• Experience with the technologies we use in the backend and infrastructure such as: Rust, Postgres, Redis, and Terraform

Responsibilities

• Be a strong individual contributor, deploying high quality production code in a fast-paced environment
• Build new features while providing a great developer experience for our customers
• Help the team scale the product while ensuring stability and high availability
• Help the team with technical challenges and successful completion of tasks
• Help organize the team, planning sprints, delegating tasks, and organizing goals, while maintaining a high team velocity as the team increases in size

Preferred Qualifications

• Rust experience (if lacking, an ability to quickly ramp up is required)
• Frontend experience

Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $190,000 - $210,000
• Equity
• Health insurance (including vision and dental)
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement account
• Paid sick time and paid personal time off