Senior Staff Software Engineer

Company	Altana AI
Location	Boston, MA, USA, London, UK, Washington, DC, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Salary	$134000 – $200000
Type	Full-Time
Degrees	Bachelor’s, Master’s
Experience Level	Senior, Expert or higher

BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
7+ years of real-world professional experience writing back end or data-driven software in demanding environments.
You’ve deployed production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
You have demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production.
Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems.
You care deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing.
You have experience with taking over codebases and making them your own, carrying forward with new feature development.
You are a master of prioritizing and picking your area of focus intentionally.
You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.
Experience with modern frontend frameworks and tools (Typescript, Next.js, React Query, Storybook)

Ingest product requirements, define technical requirements, and design practical, iterative technology designs that achieve our product and technical goals.
Work with your product manager to develop implementation plans against our technical product roadmaps.
Personally maintain, develop, and deploy our customer facing workflows to create and support our overall product architecture.
Analyze and propose technical solutions to invent, enable, and enhance our product offerings.
Be responsible for automating, testing, and deploying your own and your team’s work.
Review the code and technical designs authored by your team members, and hold a high bar for quality.
Mentor developers and help them level up their skills.
Be responsible for the technical excellence of day-to-day work of a team of engineers and ensure that the team’s deliverables are maturing along the defined roadmap.
Drive technical decision-making and problem-solving across the team, ensuring solutions are efficient, scalable, and maintainable.
Identify technical and operational gaps for the team and create plans and work items to address them.
Serve as the domain expert for a portion of the product surface area, while holding a firm technical understanding for other areas as well.
Cooperate with team leads and managers in order to keep the team focused on outcomes while delivering sustainable and consistent code.