Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Summary

Join Maze as a Staff Engineer on the Product Engineering team and lead the design and delivery of high-impact features. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to solve complex problems, ensuring system scalability and maintainability. This hands-on leadership role involves architecting solutions, writing code, mentoring engineers, and shaping technical strategy. You will design and build features impacting customer experience, architect scalable solutions, set technical standards, partner with product and design teams, remove blockers, mentor engineers, and research new tools and frameworks. Maze offers a unique opportunity to impact a rapidly growing company disrupting the user research market. The company boasts a strong product-market fit and is backed by top-tier investors. Maze is committed to building an equitable and inclusive workspace.

Requirements

• 8+ years building user facing applications; 3+ years at Staff or Principal level
• Deep expertise in modern full stack JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js + React) and relational databases (PostgreSQL)
• Proven track record delivering high quality features at scale and improving team velocity
• Strong communicator who can influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Skilled in performance optimization, maintainability, and security best practices
• Demonstrated ability to accelerate teams through technical improvements
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction
• Hands on experience delivering complex features from concept to production
• Understanding of performance optimization, maintainability, and security in web applications
• Pragmatic decision maker balancing innovation with stability
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions while advocating for engineering best practices

Responsibilities

• Design and build features and systems that directly impact the customer experience
• Architect scalable, maintainable solutions for complex product challenges
• Set technical standards, patterns, and practices that raise the engineering bar
• Partner with product and design to shape solutions from concept to delivery
• Remove blockers, improve workflows, and enable teams to deliver faster
• Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across teams
• Research, prototype, and introduce new tools, frameworks, and patterns

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Next.js, NestJS, GraphQL, and/or TypeScript at scale
• Experience architecting high-scale systems on AWS and/or Kubernetes
• Strong perspective on UX, UI design, and the research space

Benefits

• Health insurance with international coverage, vision, and dental: 100% of the team member premium paid
• For some locations, coverage options vary, please see our benefits pages for more information
• Free access to proper mental health care, unlimited virtual therapy sessions (with a human) and 24/7 access to resources
• Life and Disability Insurance, 100% of the team member premium paid
• Flexible time off
• Meaningful equity
• Company retreats, fully paid for by Maze
• New MacBook (laptop), paid for by Maze
• Paid Family leave: 16 weeks for birth or adoptive parents
• $500/month to be used for dependent health insurance coverage
• If you don't have dependents to add to your plan, you will still get access to this money to be used at your discretion to get the benefits that matter to you with our flexible a-maze-ing benefits - gym memberships, co-working spaces, food, travel, whatever!
• $1,500 remote work setup fund to ensure you can set up a productive work space
• Flexible work schedule where you manage your own working hours
• Monthly Bonus.ly points that are awarded to others to recognize teamwork, dedication and helpfulness - points can be cashed out for gift cards and more
• Virtual social engagements randomly throughout the year
• SWAG, we have some really cool swag
• Open, transparent culture that includes virtual: coffee chats, bi-weekly all-hands meetings, and more