The company is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the technical anchor of their internal innovation team, guiding the design and development of platforms that solve high-impact problems where no off-the-shelf solution exists.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, or full-stack platform development.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native environments (containers, serverless, CI/CD pipelines).
- Familiarity with AI/ML systems (LLMs, RAG, applied ML).
- Ability to lead technical direction while remaining hands-on.
- Knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale
- Cloud-native, global scaling experience (AWS and their various tool offerings)
- Understanding of the mindset of “Fail Fast, Learn Fast” and continuous improvement
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of platforms that solve high-impact problems where no off-the-shelf solution exists.
- Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical direction, delivering production-grade systems from prototype to platform.
- Design systems that can evolve rapidly while maintaining reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Guide engineers across levels, setting standards for engineering excellence and fostering a culture of technical depth.
- Rapid prototyping and driving projects from concept to delivery, ensuring ongoing ownership of the platforms.
- Embed best practices in CI/CD, observability, and security from the start, ensuring production-readiness and support.
Other
- Partner closely with Engineering Leadership and business stakeholders to turn high-level opportunities into working platforms.
- Partner with product, design, AI/ML, and business stakeholders to define scope, clarify tradeoffs, and ensure success.
- Strong communicator, able to explain tradeoffs to executives and mentor engineers.
- Comfortable working in ambiguous, high-autonomy environments.
- Track record of delivering complex solutions that align technical strategy with business needs.
