Staff Software Engineer – Fullstack

Staff Software Engineer – Fullstack

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in full-stack or backend development, with a strong focus on system architecture and organization-wide impact.
• Expert in TypeScript/Node.js and Python, with deep experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
• Extensive experience in designing and optimizing worker systems, event-driven architectures, and scheduled job execution.
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases, including schema design, data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience leading major cross-functional initiatives, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers at all levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams, influence technical direction, and align engineering with business objectives.
• Self-driven, proactive, and able to operate in a fast-paced environment, consistently raising the bar for engineering quality and organizational impact.

Responsibilities

• Drive Technical Vision and Architecture: Own and drive the architecture for entire systems or major initiatives that impact the organization. Shape the technical direction of TrunkText, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability as the platform grows.
• Scale Our Systems: Design and implement robust, high-performance backend systems that support growing data and user demands while establishing best practices for system scalability and resilience.
• Ensure Reliability and Performance: Establish, enforce, and advocate for engineering best practices across the company. Ensure our systems are highly reliable, secure, and efficient, proactively leading incident resolution and performance improvements.
• Strategic Technical Leadership: Influence company-wide engineering strategy by leading significant cross-functional initiatives. Drive high-impact projects that align engineering efforts with business goals and improve the overall engineering organization.
• Mentor and Elevate the Team: Serve as a mentor for engineers across multiple teams, including other senior and staff engineers. Foster a culture of engineering excellence through technical guidance, code reviews, and leveling up engineering talent.
• Drive Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product, design, and business teams to tackle organization-wide challenges. Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive alignment on priorities and execution.
• Establish and Enforce Engineering Standards: Set the standard for technical practices, tools, and architecture across the company. Champion improvements to the engineering process to enhance efficiency, security, and developer experience.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.