Staff Software Engineer
Role Overview
We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own architecture and design decisions for our platform, including the modernization of legacy enterprise systems into modern, cloud-capable solutions.
You'll operate with significant autonomy, act as a force multiplier for the rest of the engineering team, work closely with our Head of R&D as a technical backup, and be a candidate for broader technical responsibility across projects as you prove yourself.
This is a hands-on, high-ownership role on a lean, three-person engineering team — small enough that your architectural calls ship and show results in weeks, not after months of committee review.
You'll be a player-coach: as comfortable writing code as setting direction, designing and deciding as well as implementing, delegating, and growing the engineers around you.
In an AI-assisted development era, we value sound judgment and design thinking as much as implementation speed — you'll have real latitude to use tools like Claude and Cursor to move faster, not just permission to.
Key Skills for This Role
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Must-Have
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including real ownership of architecture and design decisions — not just executing someone else's plan.
- Proven track record modernizing legacy systems into maintainable, cloud-capable architectures.
- Full software development lifecycle experience: requirements through design, implementation, testing, release, and operations.
- Strong relational database fundamentals (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle).
- Experience in regulated-industry and/or enterprise software environments, with a real appreciation for compliance, data integrity, and audit requirements.
- Solid grounding in secure coding practices and software design principles.
- A track record of mentoring or informally leading other engineers — pulling a team forward, not just excelling individually.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice-to-Have
- Hands-on experience designing and owning CI/CD pipelines, not just using ones someone else built.
- Experience with hybrid deployment models — supporting both cloud-hosted/SaaS and on-premises enterprise environments.
- Experience across more than one of PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.
- Practical, regular use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, or similar) in your day-to-day engineering workflow.
- A habit of evaluating and adopting new tools and technologies early.
- Experience designing or shipping AI/ML-powered features in a production application (e.g., using LLMs, cloud AI/ML services, or applied ML) — we're actively exploring how AI capabilities fit into our platform.
You'll Thrive Here If
You're comfortable operating with autonomy and ambiguity, reasoning from first principles when there's no existing playbook to follow.
You're self-directed with a “get it done” mindset — you pick up what's needed rather than waiting for it to be assigned.
You want your architecture decisions to matter beyond a single sprint, on a team small enough to notice.
Benefits
- Competitive salary aligned to experience and market.
- Employee profit sharing plan.
- Fully remote.
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.
- High ownership and autonomy across product marketing initiatives.
- Opportunity to work directly with leadership in a fast-paced environment.
- Fast-growing environment with strong long-term career development potential.
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