Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Guild as a Staff Software Engineer and leverage your expertise in modern software solutions to build high-quality, scalable software. You will advise technical leadership, guide engineering squads, mentor engineers, and provide guidance on solution costs. Responsibilities include connecting cross-pillar efforts, proactively building expertise in evolving technologies, and driving continuous exploration of AI/ML technologies. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in scalable AI solutions, technical leadership, and software development using various technologies like Python, Node.js, and AWS. Guild offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary of $161,300-$215,000 and stock options. The company is committed to diversity and inclusion and provides various benefits.

Requirements

• Expertise in the design and deployment of scalable AI solutions, delivering real business results through it’s application
• Expertise in execution & delivery by defining clear goals, removing blockers, and driving projects to completion
• Expertise in providing technical leadership across organization to balance best practices and delivering on business objectives for shared understanding and success
• Expertise in building POCs to prove out new technologies and patterns that help ensure scalability, responsiveness, and performance across our services
• Understanding of  all aspects of the development lifecycle, from gathering technical requirements and choosing technology to deploying a solution in production
• Able to design and build software solutions using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Python, Node.js, Typescript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL
• Able to work closely with product and external teams on complex business problems, leading engineering efforts and taking accountability across multiple teams and partners

Responsibilities

• Advise technical leadership across the organization to balance best practices and deliver on business objectives, including the effective use of AI/ML technologies, for shared understanding and success
• Guide squads to design, build, and maintain services that are resilient, meets customer needs and easy to maintain
• Mentor engineers across the pillar to write code that is understandable, testable, and adhering to best practices with an accessible developer experience
• Provide guidance to squads and leaders on the cost to run and maintain solutions
• Connects efforts across pillar engineering efforts to share knowledge, provide feedback, and surface concerns and struggles to help chart future pillar goals
• Proactively builds expertise in evolving technology to propose and drive innovative solutions, helping to manage the relationship between new and legacy systems
• Understands strategic technical directives and takes initiative to drive efforts that align with and advance these priorities, ensuring consistency and focus across technical implementations
• Supportive of 1-2 squads and highly collaborative as a staff team within pillar
• Develop understanding of cross-pillar, department and business concerns
• Drive continuous exploration of emerging AI/ML technologies, pilot innovative tools and techniques, and elevate organizational expertise through hands-on training and knowledge sharing

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth