Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Solace as a Staff Software Engineer and become a hands-on technical leader, writing production code daily and driving architectural decisions. You will play a key role in scaling our platform, solving complex problems, and ensuring engineering best practices. As an expert in frontend and backend challenges, you will mentor other engineers and guide the team's technical direction. You will thrive in ambiguity, prioritize execution, and significantly influence building a scalable, high-performance product. Solace is a Series B startup transforming healthcare by connecting patients with expert advocates. We are a lean, fully remote U.S. team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with deep expertise in both frontend and backend technologies
• Mastery of React, TypeScript, and Node.js, with a proven track record of shipping production-grade applications
• A strong background in scalable system design, API development, and database architecture
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments where you’ve built and shipped products from scratch
• Ability to set technical direction and mentor engineers, helping them grow in their craft
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to tackle complex technical challenges with pragmatic solutions
• An extreme bias toward action and execution—you move fast, iterate quickly, and get things done
• Applicants must be based in the United States

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end development of key product features, from database models to UI components
• Serve as a technical leader and drive best practices across the engineering team
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and improving development workflows
• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions
• Architect and optimize our systems for performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Champion best practices in code quality, testing, and continuous integration/deployment
• Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks in both technical architecture and team processes
• Lead large releases to production on a continuous deployment cadence

Benefits

This is a remote position