Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join GlossGenius as a Staff Software Engineer and lead technical efforts on complex, high-impact projects. You will provide technical leadership to a distributed team, advise leadership on technology and product roadmaps, and own projects end-to-end. This role requires significant experience in backend development, distributed systems, and technical leadership. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop solutions integrating LLMs and Generative AI, and mentor other engineers. The position is remote, based anywhere in the continental US, with a hybrid option in NYC. GlossGenius offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience
• You have a depth of experience with backend development and have experience with distributed systems environments
• You have excellent product instincts, think about our users first, and can make decisions rooted in the business context
• You can effectively communicate complex concepts and have experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
• You have experience with building a long-term roadmap and technical vision to tackle complex user problems, plus an ability to break it down for other team members to execute on
• You have architectural and system design expertise in developing highly scalable and performant distributed systems
• You thrive in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• You're a continuous learner - learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better
• You're comfortable picking up new technologies (currently our team works with Ruby and Kotlin on the Backend and with React and React Native for Frontend Development; no previous experience is needed, but an openness to learn is a must.)

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a distributed engineering team to design new and enhance existing GlossGenius product offerings
• Advise the GlossGenius leadership team on key technology and product roadmap considerations
• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity, and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact to reliability and operability, to security; always approaching situations with a bias to action
• Develop end-to-end solutions that integrate LLMs and Generative AI into consumer-facing products or enterprise applications, ensuring they are user-friendly, efficient, and reliable
• Work with Product Managers to prioritize roadmap initiatives and be involved in the product ideation process
• Continually drive our engineering standards (code reuse, documentation, testing, etc.) and levels of service forward
• Take high-level business requirements and develop the technical details behind them. Collaborate with Product Managers to write epics and projects and ensure they’re appropriately broken down and prioritized, well understood by the team, and sized correctly for continuous deployment
• Architect tools, services, and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Uphold GlossGenius’s high standards for engineering and product quality and mentor newer team members to do the same
• Technical mentor to the growing engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred experience in product engineering, specifically in building LLMs and Generative AI products from the ground up

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG
• In-person opportunities that are designed to help team members foster collaboration and build community (ie; working out of a co-working space, team dinners, and other team building activities)
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office support