Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with 5-8 years of experience to join our team and take on technical leadership for key projects. We're seeking a curious, proactive individual who can map their strong technical skills to business needs and drive impact across the organization. This role is critical for us to expand our engineering capacity, allowing us to tackle a whole new category of work and innovate on our enterprise tech stack.

• Lead projects end-to-end, taking ownership from conception to deployment while collaborating closely with product managers.
• Design and build scalable systems, working with large datasets and a broad service-oriented architecture.
• Contribute to system-level design and architectural decisions, innovating on our tech stack.
• Mentor other engineers through technical leadership and collaboration.
• Build and scale high-performing, full-stack applications using Python/Django on the backend and React on the frontend.

Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of experience in full-stack software engineering, with a focus on Python/Django and React.
• Experience working with large, complex data sets.
• Demonstrated career progression and increasing responsibility (i.e., high slope).
• Experience at a Series B or similar stage startup.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in Python/Django for backend services.
• Strong expertise in modern React for frontend UIs.
• Experience with system design for large-scale infrastructure.
• Takes initiative and demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership.
• Clear and concise communication. Ability to explain concepts and achievements in a succinct and easy-to-understand way.

Traits to Avoid

• Candidates with multiple short tenures (less than 18 months).
• Candidates from large, late-stage public tech companies.
• Candidates with more than 10 years of experience.

Benefits

• Salary - $190K - $230K.
• Equity - Competitive equity.
• Visa sponsorship available.
• Sponsors OPT and transfers H1B visas. No new H1B sponsorships.
• US-based remote.
• Full-time position.

Hiring Count

• Looking to hire 1 candidate for this role.

Location

• US remote.

Tech Stack

• Python, Django, React, JavaScript/TypeScript.

What to Ask Candidates

• Tell me about a time you took initiative on a project that went beyond your defined role. What was the situation, what actions did you take, and what was the outcome?
• Describe a large-scale system you've worked on. What were the key architectural challenges, and how did you contribute to its design and scalability?
• What is their salary expectation?
• How actively are they recruiting?