Staff Engineer

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Cross-team architectural leadership: Drive technical strategy and architectural alignment across multiple engineering teams, establishing reusable patterns, standards, and practices that support organizational consistency.

• Complex problem-solving: Lead the resolution of challenging technical issues involving large-scale redesigns, distributed systems, infrastructure optimization, and emerging technology paradigms.

• Strategic technical planning: Identify architectural gaps, inefficiencies, and technical debt before they become critical issues. Develop business cases and multi-quarter roadmaps with clear objectives and measurable success criteria.

• Hands-on engineering: Contribute code to critical infrastructure, complex algorithms, architectural implementations, and proof-of-concepts, helping unblock teams and advance high-priority initiatives.

• Technology evaluation and innovation: Assess new tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches. Lead pilots and proof-of-concepts, making recommendations based on technical value, scalability, and organizational needs.

• Engineering quality and standards: Review architecture and code across teams, promoting improvements in testing, security, observability, deployment practices, and overall software quality.

• Mentorship and knowledge sharing: Support the development of senior engineers through design reviews, technical presentations, documentation, and collaborative problem-solving.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product, engineering, operations, and security stakeholders to translate business priorities into effective technical solutions and improve digital customer experiences.

Requirements

• Professional experience: At least 8 years of software engineering experience with increasing technical responsibility and influence, including at least 2 years operating at a senior level with demonstrated cross-team architectural impact.

• Enterprise delivery: Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale systems using modern frameworks, engineering practices, and DevOps methodologies.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. An advanced degree, such as an MS or MBA, is preferred. Relevant technical certifications are highly desirable.

• Digital product expertise: Significant experience delivering high-quality web and mobile products. Experience in e-commerce, hospitality, entertainment, retail, or other customer-facing industries is strongly preferred.

• Programming languages and frameworks: Deep proficiency across multiple technologies, such as C# and .NET/.NET Core, Node.js, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, React Native, Next.js, and Python, with the ability to work effectively across the stack.

• Architecture and system design: Extensive experience designing scalable, resilient distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven architectures, real-time data processing, and REST or GraphQL APIs.

• Cloud and infrastructure: Strong expertise with AWS, Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Quality and observability: Experience with comprehensive testing strategies, static analysis tools such as SonarQube, API testing tools such as Postman, and enterprise monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace or equivalent solutions.

• Security and compliance: Solid understanding of application security, data privacy, and compliance requirements, including PCI DSS and GDPR.

• AI and engineering productivity: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and emerging productivity technologies, including Python-based tooling such as FastMCP or similar.

• Strategic and business skills: Ability to translate business objectives into multi-quarter technical roadmaps, build business cases for technical investments, and communicate complex concepts clearly to executive leadership.

• Leadership and collaboration: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate across product, engineering, operations, and security teams.

• Customer focus: Understanding of digital customer experience expectations in high-volume, customer-driven environments.

Benefits

• Work arrangement: Fully remote position.

• Employment type: Full-time.

• Technical impact: Opportunity to influence architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams and large-scale digital platforms.

• Professional development: Scope to mentor experienced engineers, share technical expertise, and help shape engineering practices and technology strategy.

• Collaborative environment: Cross-functional work with product, engineering, operations, and security teams on complex, customer-facing digital experiences.

• Compensation and additional benefits: Salary, healthcare coverage, retirement plans, paid leave, and other benefits are not specified in the provided job description.

• Pre-employment screening: Background checks are required as part of onboarding. Additional screening requirements may apply to certain roles in accordance with applicable policies and laws.