Staff Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +5 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical architecture, design, and execution of the Beyond Fuel and Expense Management platform.

• Develop full-stack capabilities that encompass user interfaces, backend services, data models, and external integrations.

• Convert product requirements into technical designs, delivery milestones, and implementation strategies.

• Create reusable business capabilities and APIs that cater to web, mobile, and partner experiences.

• Establish frameworks for payment workflows, expense capture, approvals, spend controls, transaction reporting, and reconciliation.

• Assess technical alternatives and articulate trade-offs regarding performance, security, reliability, cost, and delivery timelines.

• Write production-level code, review contributions, and troubleshoot complex issues across the application stack.

• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code evaluations, technical guidance, and collaborative problem resolution.

• Set standards for automated testing, API contracts, observability, accessibility, and secure development practices.

• Ensure production readiness through actionable logging, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.

• Utilize approved AI tools throughout development, testing, and documentation, while reviewing and validating the generated output.

• Collaborate with engineering leaders to pinpoint dependencies, manage technical risks, and facilitate delivery.

• Own technical outcomes from the initial implementation to deployment, operation, and ongoing improvement.

• Work alongside Product, Design, Security, and engineering teams across the United States and India.

• Provide technical leadership as an individual contributor without the need for direct people management.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

• 8–10 years of professional experience in software engineering.

• Proven experience in taking a new product from concept to production and evolving it as adoption increases.

• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot, or similar backend technologies.

• In-depth understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.

• Experience in designing REST APIs, distributed systems, relational data models, and event-driven integrations.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and automated CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, data protection, and secure API design.

• Background in unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.

• Experience in building and operating production services with monitoring, distributed tracing, and incident troubleshooting.

• Ability to influence technical direction across teams without formal management authority.

• Capability to clearly convey technical decisions to engineering and business stakeholders.

• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and enhancing engineering practices through hands-on collaboration.

• Practical experience utilizing AI coding assistants and development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude.

• Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.

• Preferred: Over 10 years of experience in software engineering.

• Preferred: Experience with API Gateways, service mesh technologies, and cloud networking concepts.

• Preferred: Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability platforms.

• Preferred: Exposure to web and mobile application development.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Retirement savings plan.

• Paid time off.

• Health savings account.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Eligibility for quarterly or annual bonuses for non-sales roles, based on the applicable plan.