Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of one or more interconnected platform areas and the results produced by the teams operating within them.

• Keep leadership updated on any delays, resource shortages, technical liabilities, and unrealistic timelines.

• Provide teams with context linking the company’s strategic direction to daily operations.

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

• Own and advocate for the quarterly roadmap and its prioritization.

• Identify and nurture engineers to transition into technical leadership roles.

• Recruit and interview prospective candidates for the teams.

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

• Make architectural decisions, including managing technical debt.

• Influence the overall system architecture and shared components alongside engineering leadership and fellow Staff Engineers.

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

• Develop modern CRM workflows to replace outdated tools and spreadsheets.

• Create AI-driven features that highlight insights from operational data.

• Build APIs and services for managing deals and workflows.

• Transition legacy applications to contemporary web-based systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in owning outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams simultaneously, leveraging leads instead of direct execution.

• A history of identifying risks early and constructively challenging unrealistic scopes or timelines.

• Experience in mentoring engineers into technical leadership positions.

• Comfort in managing a roadmap and advocating for its priorities.

• Experience in hiring and conducting interviews.

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

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

• Strong full-stack expertise in building modern web applications, with substantial proficiency in React, TypeScript, and Next.js.

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

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

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure; Azure preferred, including cloud-native services like serverless functions, managed databases, queues, and blob storage.

• Experience with containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, alongside infrastructure as code utilizing Terraform.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling (such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar).

• Strong product instincts paired with a collaborative mindset.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Opportunities for growth and development.

• Comprehensive health care.

• Retirement plans.

• Vacation and additional paid time off.

• Additional offerings.