Staff Software Engineer – Core Architecture
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Staff engineer developing backend systems for a remote-first platform specializing in helping local businesses succeed. Leading architectural design while ensuring high performance and scalability.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain core backend systems that are foundational to the platform
- Write production code in high-impact areas, including services, shared libraries, infrastructure, and tooling
- Define the security boundary for autonomous agents — user identity propagation, task-scoped tool access via a centralized Tool Shed, and sandboxing to limit blast radius
- Lead the execution of technically complex projects end-to-end, from design through rollout and iteration
- Debug and resolve hard production problems involving scale, data consistency, performance, and reliability
- Drive architectural decisions through prototypes, code, and real implementations, not just diagrams
- Establish patterns and best practices for service boundaries, APIs, data ownership, and distributed systems
- Partner with engineering teams to guide major refactors and platform migrations
- Make pragmatic technical trade-offs that balance velocity, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Partner with product, engineering, and platform teams to execute technically complex projects
- Make high-leverage architectural decisions under uncertainty, with clear trade-offs
- Turn vague problems into clear technical strategies and execution plans
- Raise the technical bar through deep code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration
- Mentor senior engineers and help grow future technical leaders
- Influence engineering direction by being a trusted technical partner who ships high-quality systems
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience at high-growth startups or large scale platforms
- Demonstrated experience leading architectural design for large, distributed systems
- Experience breaking down monoliths into service-oriented architectures or microservices
- Deep expertise in scaling backend systems to handle high throughput and complex operational concerns
- Strong understanding of auth systems, security boundary design, and distributed identity
- Clear decision-making in ambiguous technical situations
- Excellent communicator — able to articulate trade-offs to engineers and cross-functional partners.
Benefits:
- comprehensive health coverage
- work from anywhere (remote-first workplace)
- unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!
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