Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for:

• Technical Direction: Define the long-term architectural roadmap for our API services and backend infrastructure.
• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a small but growing team of high-performing engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Product Collaboration: Work closely with the Product Management team to translate business requirements into robust, scalable technical features.
• Quality & Stability: Partner with the QA team to squash complex bugs and maintain a high bar for system uptime and performance.
• Release Management: Own the backend release cycle, overseeing weekly deployments to ensure seamless production rollouts.
• Hands-on Development: Lead by example by contributing high-quality, production-ready code in TypeScript.
• Security: Ensure the API implements security best practices to meet the standards of our many large regulated customers.
• The Expert Programmer: You possess a profound understanding of TypeScript, including the nuances of the type system, decorators, and asynchronous patterns.
• Cloud Native: Deep, granular knowledge of the AWS ecosystem following a serverless approach, proficient in architecting solutions using Lambda, ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and EventBridge.
• Master Debugger: You have a "sixth sense" for finding bottlenecks and race conditions, comfortable diving into distributed tracing, logs, and memory heaps to solve complex problems.
• Backend Specialist: Understanding of API design principles (REST) with a proven track record of building systems that handle a scaling platform.

Qualifications

• Academic Excellence: A BSc (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field from a top-tier global university.
• Industry Excellence: A minimum of 4 years of experience at a world-class enterprise (e.g., FAANG, high-growth unicorn, or industry-leading tech firm).

Benefits

• Work in a 100% remote environment with team members across multiple countries.
• Embrace flexibility while solving meaningful challenges together.