Staff Engineer, Brand

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

📋 Description

• Provide technical guidance across the Brand platform, spearheading strategic, complex, and essential initiatives.

• Define and enhance architecture for intricate, cross-team product and platform projects.

• Direct technical strategy, breakdown, and execution of vital projects from discovery to delivery.

• Collaborate with product, design, data, and platform teams to ensure technical decisions align with customer, platform-health, and business goals.

• Establish scalable patterns, APIs, and system boundaries that enhance reliability and maintainability.

• Identify and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, and operational complexity.

• Elevate the engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, technical coaching, and mentorship.

• Ensure platform health through observability, quality practices, operational readiness, and cross-team collaboration.

• Translate vague business requirements into technical direction, milestones, and sustainable solutions.

• Champion the adoption of AI-native engineering practices utilizing coding agents and AI-assisted tools.

• Enhance repository context, technical specifications, development environments, CI pipelines, test strategies, and feedback loops for agent-assisted delivery.

• Manage multiple streams of agent-assisted work, decompose initiatives, critically assess outputs, and maintain accountability for production results.

• Establish evaluation and validation mechanisms for AI-assisted workflows, including automated checks, human reviews, security controls, observability, and production feedback.

• Leverage AI and automation to minimize engineering toil, enhance developer experience, increase test coverage, and expedite reliable customer outcomes.

• Scale AI-native practices through architectural guidance, reusable patterns, documentation, mentoring, and hands-on coaching.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with substantial experience in leading the architecture and delivery of complex, distributed systems.

• Proven success functioning as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leader across various teams or domains.

• Strong systems-design capabilities, including practical architectural tradeoffs regarding performance, reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience.

• Experience in leading high-impact initiatives necessitating coordination among engineering, product, design, data, and platform partners.

• Proven ability to transform ambiguous product and business challenges into clear technical strategies and actionable plans.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders without direct authority.

• Capability to mentor engineers and cultivate technical leadership across teams.

• Commitment to engineering excellence, quality, operational ownership, observability, and ongoing improvement.

• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools or coding agents in a real engineering workflow.

• Experience in shaping software-development processes for effective collaboration between engineers and AI agents.

• Experience enhancing engineering leverage through automation, developer tooling, platform capabilities, or workflow redesign.

• Understanding the risks associated with AI-assisted delivery, including insecure output, data exposure, inadequate test coverage, nondeterministic behavior, and ambiguous ownership.

• Ability to measure outcomes of engineering practices such as cycle time, quality, reliability, maintainability, developer experience, or customer impact.

• A proactive mindset focused on seizing opportunities and acting with urgency.

• Dedication to prioritization and operational excellence.

• Adaptability to a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• A growth mindset and openness to feedback.

• Authorization to work in the U.S.; LTK is not offering new sponsorship opportunities for individuals requiring employment visas such as H-1B.

🏝️ Benefits

• The chance to be part of a leading global company in creator commerce.

• A remote-first, productivity-focused environment.

• Competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet the needs of you and your family.

• 401(k) with LTK company matching.

• Medical Insurance.

• Vision Insurance.

• Dental Insurance.

• Paid Maternity Leave.

• Paid Paternity Leave.

• Summer Fridays.

• Flexible PTO.