Senior Staff Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Engineering Leadership

• Shape and drive the organization's technology vision, ensuring it's effectively implemented across your areas of ownership.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement-identify architectural enhancements, propose and prototype solutions, gather feedback early, and document thoroughly to gain alignment.
• Lead architectural design with a strategic mindset, balancing long-term scalability with near-term delivery needs.
• Elevate engineering standards by introducing practices that enhance team velocity, code quality, and delivery consistency.
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation, including Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), design review materials, and internal wikis to support team learning and onboarding.
• Collaborate with architects across domains to ensure cohesive and aligned architectural strategies.

Project Execution

• Own the end-to-end delivery of major initiatives, from design through development and testing.
• Partner with product managers, engineering leads, and cross-functional teams to execute on the product and technology roadmap.

Mentorship & Team Growth

• Support the growth of peers through mentorship, pair programming, design/code reviews, and collaborative events like hackathons.
• Play a key role in hiring by setting a high bar for technical excellence and cultural fit.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and building large-scale, high-performance distributed systems and APIs serving millions of users.
• Advanced programming expertise in Java or Scala, and JavaScript; strong familiarity with GraphQL.
• Demonstrated ability to tackle complex technical challenges and deliver impactful solutions.
• Skilled at aligning technical direction with senior stakeholders, especially in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
• Experience developing and promoting reusable technical patterns that uplift engineering practices across teams.
• Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to navigate differing perspectives and drive progress.
• Passionate about mentoring and developing others.
• Bachelor's degree with 15+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 12+ years in software design and development.

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