Staff Software Engineer Growth

Overview

How We Work

• We give engineers ownership and trust them to ship high-impact work with craftsmanship and accountability.
• We move quickly, experiment often, and learn fast from data and feedback.
• We work asynchronously across time zones, supporting each other with open communication and shared goals.

Why This Role Matters

• Every decision you make will shape how people discover, trust, and engage with our products globally.
• As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, you ll set technical direction through context and clarity empowering others to execute with confidence.
• You ll mentor through example and collaboration, raising the technical bar across teams and ensuring our systems scale with performance, reliability, and purpose.
• This role sits at the intersection of product, marketing, and infrastructure turning ideas into measurable results.
• You ll lead with accountability and empathy, aligning teams around shared goals and building sustainable systems that drive growth through engineering excellence.
• The opportunity
• As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, you ll lead complex, cross-cutting technical initiatives that directly impact user acquisition, activation, and retention.
• You ll drive architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure the systems we build are reliable, scalable, and measurable in their impact.
• This is a high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role for engineers who excel at translating business goals into systems that drive growth balancing product velocity with long-term technical excellence.
• Lead the technical direction for key Growth initiatives, from experimentation platforms to global onboarding and engagement systems.
• Design and evolve distributed, high-scale systems that power user acquisition and retention.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data teams to identify growth opportunities and translate them into reliable, measurable engineering solutions.
• Mentor engineers across Product and Platform teams guiding architecture, design, and execution.
• Ensure high engineering standards across the stack: reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate across teams to align on architecture, tooling, and technical strategy.
• Contribute to and influence the broader engineering culture by advocating for craftsmanship, impact, and accountability.

Skills

• you should HODL
• Proven experience leading large-scale technical projects or owning critical systems end to end.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript or Rust, our core languages and the versatility to work confidently across the full stack.

Experience

• with other languages such as Go, Python, or Ruby is a plus and demonstrates your ability to adapt quickly.
• Broad technical range and curiosity you re comfortable diving into any layer of the stack, from front-end performance to backend architecture and infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing systems that balance experimentation velocity with long-term maintainability.
• A product mindset you think in terms of outcomes and user impact, not just code.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and design.
• Experience operating autonomously in a distributed, remote-first environment.
• You set the bar for technical excellence and embody the ownership, craftsmanship, and accountability we expect across the organization.
• Nice to haves
• Background in growth engineering, experimentation platforms, or developer experience.
• Experience with infrastructure and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Track record of influencing technical strategy across multiple teams or domains.