Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of a segment of the platform and the results of one or more teams across interconnected product surfaces.

• Proactively inform leadership about potential risks such as project delays, resource shortages, unrealistic timelines, and technical debt.

• Provide teams with context that aligns company objectives with daily operational activities.

• Manage staffing composition, delivery speed, product alignment, and architectural direction.

• Steer and advocate for the roadmap and sequencing within your area.

• Identify and nurture engineers, guiding them into technical leadership roles.

• Recruit and interview candidates for the teams.

• Collaborate with a technical program manager on planning cycles, dependencies, and operational execution.

• Make architectural choices regarding technical debt and system evolution.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership and fellow Staff Engineers to shape the overall system architecture and shared components.

• Design systems that capture and connect relationships within the entertainment industry.

• Develop CRM workflows, AI-enhanced features, APIs, services, and modern web systems.

• Transition legacy applications to contemporary web-based systems.

• Utilize AI-assisted development for coding, testing, debugging, and system design.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams simultaneously, through leads rather than direct execution.

• Demonstrated ability to identify risks early and constructively challenge unrealistic scopes or timelines.

• Experience in cultivating engineers into technical leadership roles.

• Confidence in owning a roadmap and advocating for its prioritization.

• Experience in hiring and interviewing candidates.

• Ability to thrive in environments where systems, processes, and organizational structures are still developing.

• Extensive background in software engineering, typically with 15+ years of experience.

• Strong full-stack development skills in building modern web applications, with in-depth expertise in React, TypeScript, and Next.js.

• Solid backend development experience with Node.js, creating scalable services and APIs (REST and gRPC).

• Experience in designing and managing relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably Azure, including cloud-native services such as serverless functions, managed databases, queues, and blob storage.

• Knowledge of containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, as well as infrastructure as code practices with Terraform.

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and developer tools (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar).

• Strong product instincts combined with a collaborative mindset.

🏝️ Benefits

• Short- and long-term incentives, as applicable.

• Opportunities for growth and professional development.

• Comprehensive health care coverage.

• Retirement plan options.

• Paid vacation and time off.

• Additional offerings.