Staff Software Engineer (USA)

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Development: Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery. 
  
  
• Quality Ownership: Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring. 
  
  
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives. 
  
  
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality. 
  
  
• System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of services and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs. 
  
  
• Technical Innovation: Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices. 
• Thought Leader and Influencer: Drives decisions on difficult challenges with innovative ideas. Leads and influences entire teams with coaching and guidance.

Required Qualifications: 

• TypeScript & Node.js Expertise: Experience with TypeScript, including advanced types and type-checking techniques and strong understanding of Node.js runtime and ecosystem. 
• Frontend Experience: Strong experience in building, designing, and front-end applications using JavaScript client side frameworks (Angluar, Vue, React) 
  
  
• API Development: Skilled in designing and building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs. 
  
  
• Database Management: Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis). 
  
  
• Asynchronous Programming: Familiarity with promises, async/await, and event-driven architecture. 
  
  
• Testing and Debugging: Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha) and debugging tools. 
  
  
• Code Quality and Standards: Understanding of code linting, formatting, and adherence to best practices (e.g., ESLint, Prettier). 
  
  
• Version Control: Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g., GitHub, GitLab). 
  
  
• Cloud Services and Deployment: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). 
  
  
• Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices design principles and implementation. 
  
  
• Security Best Practices: Awareness of security standards, such as OAuth, JWT, and data encryption. 
  
  
• Performance Optimization: Experience in optimizing code for performance, scalability, and efficiency. 
  
  
• CI/CD Pipelines: Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI). 
  
  
• Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile development practices, including Scrum and Kanban. 
  
  
• Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to troubleshoot issues and optimize backend performance. 
  
  
• Effective Communication: Capable of clearly communicating technical concepts to team members and stakeholders. 
  
  
• Code Quality: Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following best practices such as TDD, unit testing, and code reviews. 
  
  
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex problems and design solutions that are scalable and maintainable. 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Ownership Mindset: Passion for taking full ownership of features and ensuring their quality from concept through to production. 
  
  
• Performance and Optimization: Experience with profiling applications, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing performance for scale. 
  
  
• Collaboration Skills: Comfortable working in a collaborative, Agile environment, with an emphasis on communication and team success.

Salary Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $119,000 and $142,000. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location and relevant experience, education, certifications, and seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. There is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.

Here are some of our local benefits:

• Three week's paid time off on top of 13 paid holidays, floating holidays, and holiday allowance increase based on tenure
  
  
• Gym membership subsidy
  
  
• Medical and dental insurance
  
  
• Pet insurance
  
  
• Employee Assistance Program
  
  
• College Savings Plan
  
  
• Travel assistance
  
  
• 401(k) with up to 4% employer match