Senior Staff Engineer, Backend

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and enhance the architectural vision for customer-oriented systems in alignment with the overall business strategy. Lead cross-organizational initiatives that focus on long-term scalability, system boundaries, and foundational capabilities.

• Establish patterns and frameworks that guarantee quality, resilience, and operational excellence throughout the organization. Act as the authority on design decisions and promote alignment among teams.

• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to influence product direction and ensure our architecture aligns with strategic objectives. Foster organization-wide adoption of scalable practices, tools, and development standards.

• Mentor senior technical leaders, improving engineering capabilities across the organization. Advocate for initiatives that enhance talent density, engineering rigor, and a culture of continuous learning.

• Navigate through complexity and ambiguity, providing clarification where ownership is unclear. Eliminate organizational obstacles, streamline decision-making, and expedite the delivery of strategic initiatives.

• Convert customer needs and product goals into scalable technical solutions. Establish principles and patterns that integrate customer obsession into our platform’s architecture.

• Design systems and team boundaries that facilitate sustainable growth. Promote early investment in non-functional priorities (e.g., observability, migrations, reliability) during the design process.

⛳️ Requirements

• 12+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of technical leadership at a group level.

• Familiarity with technologies such as Kotlin, Java, or Go, along with a comprehensive understanding of system design for scalability and performance.

• Experience in introducing and scaling shared infrastructure, frameworks, or libraries across various teams.

• Proficient in CI/CD workflows (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tools (e.g., Datadog).

• Proven ability to drive architectural clarity and achieve strategic technical alignment across different functions.

• Experience in translating customer and clinical needs into reliable, maintainable, and impactful technical solutions.

• A history of fostering significant improvements in developer experience, team velocity, and system sustainability.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time positions.

• Unlimited paid time off, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days.

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).

• 401k benefits with employer matching contributions.

• Offsite team retreats.