Staff Software Engineer

Accountabilities

• Contribute directly to core systems while setting high standards for code quality, testing, architecture, and software design.
• Lead cross-team architectural initiatives that simplify systems and improve scalability, reliability, performance, and testability.
• Design elegant solutions to complex technical challenges involving distributed systems and large-scale web rendering.
• Identify technical risks, systemic bottlenecks, and recurring challenges, then establish effective solutions and engineering defaults that enable teams to work efficiently.
• Coach and mentor engineers at different levels through pairing, design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on support in engineering practices.
• Promote sustainable engineering practices such as test-driven development, pair programming, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Partner with product and leadership teams to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term technical health and maintainability.
• Improve engineering tooling, automation, workflows, and shared practices to increase effectiveness across teams.
• Facilitate technical discussions and create shared context around architectural decisions, trade-offs, and strategic priorities.
• Review code and provide thoughtful, actionable feedback that helps engineers continuously improve.
• Establish patterns, guardrails, and good technical defaults that increase consistency and enable teams to move with confidence.
• Lead by example through ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and a continuous drive to improve systems and ways of working.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience designing and delivering complex software and distributed systems.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale technical or architectural initiatives that have simplified, strengthened, or significantly improved core systems.
• Deep expertise in modern backend development, ideally with TypeScript/Node.js or Golang.
• Strong familiarity with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Excellent understanding of system design, distributed architectures, performance, reliability, scalability, and software quality.
• Strong systems-thinking ability, with the capacity to connect product objectives, technical architecture, engineering practices, and organizational needs.
• Demonstrated ability to balance short-term delivery priorities with long-term maintainability and technical sustainability.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers through context, guidance, collaboration, and example rather than authority or gatekeeping.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ownership, initiative, and problem-solving skills, combined with a consistent drive to improve systems, teams, and processes.
• Comfortable working in a distributed, remote-first environment with a high degree of autonomy and trust.
• Experience with SEO, web performance, or large-scale rendering infrastructure is a plus, but curiosity, adaptability, and strong engineering fundamentals are valued more highly than specific industry experience.

Benefits

• 100% remote work, offering flexibility to work from Europe and beyond within the applicable remote-work framework.
• High degree of autonomy and trust, with freedom to determine how best to solve technical challenges.
• Flexible working arrangements designed to support sustainable performance and individual needs.
• Minimal bureaucracy, unnecessary meetings, and red tape, allowing teams to maintain momentum.
• Flexible time off to support rest, recovery, and a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to work with a small, friendly, collaborative engineering team.
• Access to a broader international network of SaaS professionals for knowledge sharing, learning, and exchanging ideas.
• Opportunity to have significant influence across engineering teams, architecture, tooling, and technical practices.
• Location-adjusted compensation aligned with local market medians for a remote-first environment, with the salary range communicated in writing before the first interview.
• Inclusive and diverse working environment where fresh perspectives and different backgrounds are valued.