The Staff Software Engineer serves as a technical leader across multiple small teams. They design and build scalable systems, guide architectural decisions, and tackle complex challenges that span codebases and domains. They work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape the technical roadmap, ensure systems are reliable and secure, and drive key cross-team initiatives from idea to implementation. The role balances deep technical work, collaborative problem-solving, and mentoring in a distributed environment.
What you’ll do:
Partner with Product to shape roadmap requirements and recommend the right technologies and design patterns.
Review architecture and code for your team’s projects to ensure quality, scalability, and security—while empowering the team to own implementation and delivery.
Troubleshoot performance and scalability issues escalated from your teams. Identify root causes, guide solutions, and see them through to resolution.
Own and deliver cross-team projects that are difficult to tackle at the team level—such as introducing new frameworks, improving the developer experience, or migrating shared functionality.
Mentor engineers across teams through guilds, office hours, and informal coaching.
What you’ll bring:
10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong foundation in building and maintaining production systems.
3+ years of experience working with Node.js or React in production environments.
1+ years of experience with NestJS (preferred).
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Strong experience with authentication & authorization protocols like OAuth, SCIM, OIDC, and RBAC systems
In depth knowledge of authentication and authorization systems from large third party providers
Strong proficiency with:
JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming
Building and consuming RESTful web services
Networking protocols and relational databases
Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
Using logging and telemetry tools to monitor and debug production systems
Working with Git and modern CI/CD practices
At least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) or infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
Nice to have experience with:
AI-assisted development tools
TypeORM, Jest, Redis, and ElasticSearch
You’ve had success in roles where you:
Successfully completed the migration of a large company to a complex, third-party authentication system.
Led groups of engineers through feature delivery, from scoping and ticket creation to implementation and release
Owned major products or features, balancing technical tradeoffs like quality vs. speed or team autonomy vs. alignment
Built and scaled real-world web applications
Worked in fast-paced environments, such as startups or growth-stage companies
Communicated architectural decisions clearly across teams and kept stakeholders informed through status updates
Balanced individual contributor work with time spent mentoring or unblocking teammates
Adopted new technologies and introduced them thoughtfully into a codebase
Used product development methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, or Lean
Benefits:
Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge
HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)
100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D benefits
Learning & Development: $500 annually towards professional development opportunities + $250 annually towards personal development opportunities
Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries
16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn, newly adopted, or foster child
Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home + $1,000 annually to cover necessary business related items for your home office
401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes
This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The applicable salary range for each US-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers based on the cost of labor for that geographic area. The expected salary ranges for this role are below, subject to change.
Tier 1: $200,700 - $247,900
Tier 2: $180,600 - $223,100
Tier 3: $160,600 - $198,300
You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s leveling and compensation–including a candidate’s professional background and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.