Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

Staff Software Engineers are the engineering backbone of their team. You're the engineer everyone wants on the hard problems — the ones that need solid judgment, deep system understanding, and someone who'll actually ship them. You're hands-on every day:

• Design and implement the parts of the system that are too important or too tricky to leave to anyone else.
• Debug production issues that others have bounced off.
• Your code is the model the team's review bar is set against.
• Lead by example — your quality, work ethic, and AI-native practice raise the team's standards over time.
• Be the engineer the team looks to during high-pressure moments — regardless of time or day.
• Be the technical authority for your domain — its architecture, standards, and debt.
• Know the domain's customers and stakeholders, and the outcomes the domain is committed to.

Qualifications

• Roughly 8–12 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Hands-on credibility and strong work ethic.
• Comfort leading in high-pressure moments.
• Multi-year ownership of a significant domain.
• Product fluency — ability to speak the language of the business.
• Daily, judgment-driven AI-assisted development practice.
• Influence without authority.
• Security and compliance fluency for systems handling sensitive financial data.
• A strong writer.

Requirements

• Ship the team's hardest work hands-on — design, implement, review, deploy, and operate it through production.
• Set the team's code-quality and design bar by example.
• Own your domain's architecture — document significant decisions and keep technical debt visible.
• Own the domain's OKRs and KPIs alongside the team's manager and product partners.
• Help the team improve predictability — scope ambiguity out before commitments.
• Lead the team's AI-native and agentic engineering practice.
• Own your domain's delivery, reliability, and security.
• Mentor engineers toward design and architecture ownership.

Benefits

• Compensation range: $168k - $192k.
• Bonus programs.
• 401(k) match.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• HSA and FSA options.
• Financial wellness resources and employee discount programs.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Mental health support for employees and dependents through Lyra Health.
• Family planning and women’s health benefits through Carrot.
• Gym membership reimbursement and virtual wellness programs.
• 3 weeks PTO to start, with unlimited PTO after year one.
• Education expense reimbursement.
• Leadership development programs.
• Certified Payments Professional (CPP) certification support.