Senior Staff Software Engineer, CMS and Localization
Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)Full-TimeStaff
Salary204800 - 316000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Required Skills
- Node.jsPostgreSQLPythonArtificial IntelligenceJavaTypeScriptGo
Requirements
- BS / BA college degree or relevant experience
- 12+ years of experience building and evolving complex, distributed SaaS systems
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale architectural initiatives that unlocked new product capabilities or competitive advantages
- Deep backend systems experience in one or more modern server environments (e.g., Java, Go, Python, Node.js), with the ability to ramp quickly in new stacks
- Experience designing and operating API-driven systems backed by relational databases such as Postgres or Aurora
- A track record of solving difficult scalability, data modeling, or interoperability challenges
- Experience influencing cross-team architecture in platform environments
- A principled but pragmatic approach to decoupled architectures and sound design principles
- A thoughtful perspective on AI-assisted development — understanding both its leverage and its risks
- Take full ownership of ambitious technical challenges, staying calm under pressure and disciplined when making high-risk decisions to drive projects to resolution
- Enjoy mentoring emerging technical talent, along with persuasively challenging assumptions at all levels—including senior leadership—without being dogmatic
- Experience with Node.js and TypeScript in large production systems is a plus, but not required
- Stay curious and open to growth — demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the technical strategy for the Compose pillar, aligning architecture with ambitious product goals and measurable business outcomes
- Identify and lead multi-team initiatives that unlock new competitive capabilities
- Translate product vision into concrete technical problems and execution plans
- Lead high-impact efforts from architecture through delivery, especially where scale, ambiguity, or systemic risk is highest
- Establish and evolve architectural guardrails and governance processes to prevent drift as we scale
- Strengthen cross-pillar alignment with Design, Develop, and Infrastructure to enable clean integrations and platform interoperability
- Eliminate structural sources of technical debt and recurring risk, improving reliability, determinism, and operational clarity
- Increase engineering leverage through thoughtful automation and responsible use of AI-assisted tooling
- Raise the talent bar by mentoring senior engineers, contributing to hiring, and developing future Staff-level leaders
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