Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead - Planning).

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend-heavy features in a large codebase
• Own the technical health of a core product area, focusing on performance and scalability
• Collaborate with the CEO/CTO to align on architectural direction and translate ideas into solutions

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems in production environments
• Experience with monolithic or legacy systems and improving them incrementally
• Strong judgment around tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Experience collaborating closely with product and business stakeholders
• Familiarity with technologies such as Kotlin, TypeScript/React, MongoDB, and AWS is a plus