Senior Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Lead the long-term technical vision of the platform, overseeing the design, development, and evolution of scalable and reliable systems across multiple teams.

• Act as the primary technical partner to the Engineering Director, collaborating closely with Engineering Managers and Product leadership.

• Tackle the organization's most challenging technical issues while providing mentorship to engineers throughout the company.

• Oversee six key product squads in Poland: Scheduling, Estimates, Service Plans, Recurring Jobs, Customers, and Online Booking.

• Facilitate the transition from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a modern, distributed, event-driven, domain-oriented architecture.

• Serve as the technical eyes for the Engineering Director across various squads by identifying risks, concerns, ideas, and issues in code, pull requests, and designs.

• Enhance application performance, quality, and responsiveness within core domain systems.

• Collaborate with development teams, engineering leaders, and architects to create high-performance, scalable, and reliable architecture.

• Define subsystem boundaries and recommend the placement of functionalities across these subsystems.

• Establish and uphold code quality standards; conduct code and architectural reviews; and coach teams on system design principles.

• Promote architectural improvements and strategic refactoring for better scalability and maintainability.

• Guide teams in creating automated tests at optimal architectural layers.

• Maintain and enhance CI/CD environments.

• Mentor engineers throughout the organization.

• Lead initiatives across squads and represent domains in company-wide architectural discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 9 years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining complex production systems.

• Extensive experience with modern backend frameworks, including Ruby on Rails, Django, or Spring Boot.

• Proficiency in various programming languages, such as JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, or Node.js.

• In-depth expertise with cloud platforms, containerization, and serverless/cloud-native architectures.

• Proven success in applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles across multiple teams or domains.

• Experience in architecting and developing event-driven systems using distributed messaging tools like Kafka or SQS.

• Knowledge in defining and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins or GitLab, along with automated testing strategies.

• Expertise in scalable API design and management, including RESTful APIs or GraphQL.

• Strong background in system observability practices and performance diagnostics.

• Proven track record of improving team efficiency or output quality through strategic use of AI tools and automation.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Ownership mentality, balancing urgency with long-term system health.

• Diverse background with a mix of cross-functional interests or depth of specialized expertise.

• Personal resilience to learn from the ground up and thrive in ambiguous situations.

• Comfort with frequent context switching in a large, business-critical organization.

• Ability to quickly develop deep knowledge of a complex, large system.

• Strong written communication skills and a history of influencing without authority while coaching senior engineers across teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time off.

• A culture that fosters innovation and values big ideas from all sources.

• A MacBook set up and ready for you from day one.

• A $500 stipend to create your ideal workspace.

• Central European Time (CET) hours to support a balanced schedule for the Poland-based team.

• Equity in a rapidly growing startup supported by top-tier venture capitalists.