Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer at MavTek, you are the co-owner of the engineering and AI strategy that fundamentally shifts how engineering teams work, where building with AI and redesigning development workflows to support further adoption are the cornerstone of the role.

• You will set the technical bar for a platform in the top 0.001% of sites by traffic.
• Cache misses cost real money, race conditions surface within minutes, and architectural decisions are stress-tested by thousands of concurrent users.
• You will find yourself constantly working in a layer of ambiguity where the vision is set but the how-to is missing.
• Your role drives the most value by creating structures and guardrails to follow the vision, assessing what’s needed to get there, identifying missing components, connecting the dots, and setting a technical strategy you own.
• You play a critical role in your own strategy; you are a doer.
• You focus on removing the hardest problem that blocks engineering teams and the strategy, or creates instability in the site.
• The success of this role relies on high agency and a strong technical and product foundation that provides solutions to ongoing challenges.
• You will succeed by balancing technical strategy, hands-on contributions, and establishing yourself as a right-hand of both engineers and engineering leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience with at least 6 years of relevant experience building scalable distributed systems in a high-paced environment.
• Experience planning, architecting, and developing high-traffic and distributed systems through technical roadmaps while balancing product needs.
• Ideally operating as a staff engineer, technical leader, or similar role.
• Hands-on experience driving AI fluency across an organization, team, or process.
• Experience driving cross-team collaboration by coaching and pairing with engineers.
• A strong sense of balance of engineering, product, security, and compliance knowledge, demonstrated through projects you have led.
• Familiarity with our tech stack: Next.js, React.js, Node.js, and AWS.
• Experience working on platform teams or DX teams.

Requirements

• Improving AI adoption through internal tools, skills, or plugin development.
• Re-design of development workflows that boost developer productivity, code quality, or process simplification.
• Enablement of autonomous agents through agentic systems or loops.
• Raising the AI adoption bar through DX programs, e.g., AI-awareness to AI-native.
• Developing internal libraries focused on improving developer experience, stability, code quality, AI adoption, or similar.

Benefits

• This is a full-time freelance contractor position.
• The successful candidate will be required to submit a monthly invoice and timesheet for the full duration of the contract.
• Please note that this engagement does not include employee benefits, as it is an independent contractor arrangement.