Staff Engineer

Role Description

Guild is hiring a Staff Engineer to join our Grow Talent Experience team, focused on building guided core member experiences which are personalized, intuitive, and delightful. In this role, you will design and deliver robust software solutions that serve the evolving needs of members pursuing learning and career growth opportunities.

As a Staff Engineer , you will:

• Design, build, and own new user interfaces, services, and infrastructure.
• Write clean, testable, and reusable code. Contribute to end-to-end development including testing, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and deployment, ensuring high availability and quality in releases.
• Lead by example in code quality, technical decision-making, and documentation practices. Create and contribute to design documents, architecture decision records (ADRs), and technical discussions that communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, operations teams, and external client technical teams to translate business requirements into effective engineering solutions. Contribute to planning, estimation, and execution of product roadmap items.
• Use operational data such as logs, metrics, and user feedback to identify and implement enhancements in performance, reliability, and developer velocity. Take ownership of resolving issues and driving root cause analysis and sustainability.
• Improve internal development processes, tools, and workflows to enhance code quality, speed of delivery, and system security.
• Lead engineering efforts, sharing knowledge and feedback both inside and outside your team.
• Elevate the 4 other engineers on the team through mentoring and guidance.

Qualifications

• Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, especially in a distributed working environment.
• Expertise in several (or all!) of these tools and technologies: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and GraphQL.
• Expertise building and owning multiple services and user interfaces - data modeling, unit and integration testing, application monitoring, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
• Expertise with a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean), database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL), and modern source control (Git / Github).
• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI) and building AI-powered features, including assistants, summarization, RAG workflows, or vector search.
• Demonstrated curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies.

Requirements

• Ability to live and work full-time in one of the specified states.

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO).
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future.
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge.
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover.
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low-cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services.
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth.