Staff Software Engineer
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US RemoteFull-TimeStaff
Salary170,000 - 210,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLPythonDjangoFlaskKubernetesFastAPIReactCI/CDDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 3 years operating at a senior or staff level in a distributed, product-focused engineering organization.
- Deep expertise in Python and at least one modern web framework (Django, FastAPI, or Flask).
- Working proficiency in React or a comparable frontend framework.
- Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of complex, multi-team technical initiatives.
- Strong command of distributed systems concepts: service decomposition, event-driven architectures, API design, caching, and data consistency.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), and modern CI/CD toolchains (Jenkins, Helm, ArgoCD).
- Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL including schema design, indexing, and query optimization at scale.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and design artifacts.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive architectural decisions that span multiple teams and services, balancing long-term sustainability with near-term delivery needs.
- Identify and resolve high-priority technical risks, bottlenecks, and systemic issues across the platform.
- Own the technical direction of cross-team initiatives from inception through delivery, including design documentation and implementation.
- Contribute production-quality code to critical, high-complexity features and platform services using Python and React.
- Lead major refactors and modernization efforts to improve performance, observability, and maintainability.
- Establish and champion engineering standards, patterns, and best practices that improve developer productivity organization-wide.
- Serve as a technical mentor and thought partner to senior and intermediate engineers through code reviews and coaching.
- Partner with Product Owners and QA leads to shape roadmap priorities and communicate complex technical tradeoffs to stakeholders.
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