Staff Software Engineer

Role: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Brooklyn, NY or San Mateo, CA (1 day onsite per week)
Duration: FTE

Manager's Expectation:

• NodeJS
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• GCP – Big Query
• MongoDB
• NoSQL

Overview: We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across full-stack application development and platform initiatives. This is a hands-on role focused on designing, building, and scaling cloud-native SaaS products. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, GCP/BigQuery, and Kubernetes, along with strong experience building and scaling full-stack applications. This role requires a senior technical leader who can influence architecture, solve complex engineering problems, and drive technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable full-stack SaaS applications and backend services.
• Drive architectural decisions across application, API, data, and platform layers.
• Develop production applications and services using JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js.
• Build and support cloud-native applications on GCP, including solutions leveraging BigQuery.
• Design, develop, and optimize applications running in Kubernetes environments.
• Design and optimize data solutions using MongoDB and NoSQL databases.
• Improve application performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution.
• Help establish engineering best practices around testing, deployment, observability, and operational reliability.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience operating at Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical scope.
• Strong hands-on experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Strong full-stack application development experience.
• Strong experience with Node.js.
• Production experience with MongoDB and NoSQL databases.
• Strong experience with GCP, including BigQuery.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native application environments.
• Experience building and scaling SaaS products.
• Strong software architecture and distributed systems experience.
• Experience developing scalable APIs and production services.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Rust.
• Experience with React or Vue.js.
• Experience with event-driven or distributed architectures.
• Experience scaling high-availability SaaS platforms.
• Experience with DevOps, SRE, observability, and production reliability practices.
• Experience working with large-scale data platforms and analytics workloads.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across multiple teams.