Staff Software Engineer – Community

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

📋 Description

• Design and develop application architecture that is scalable, maintainable, observable, and high-performing.

• Produce clean, efficient, and thoroughly documented code.

• Perform code reviews, assess architecture, and contribute to engineering best practices.

• Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks across various systems.

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features.

• Ensure application security by implementing safeguards against vulnerabilities.

• Participate in and lead decisions regarding major capabilities, assisting teams in translating business and product requirements into clear, actionable technical roadmaps.

• Act as a product-engineering subject-matter expert (SME) within the domain.

• Lead by example through hands-on coding, creating new capabilities or enhancing existing ones while promoting the adoption of best software engineering principles and practices, along with continuous mentorship and guidance to teams.

• Clearly communicate complex solutions to stakeholders both within and outside the area, fostering a robust product engineering culture across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in building customer-facing web products using React and Next.js.

• A solid front-end engineering background, ideally with full-stack experience to navigate confidently across APIs, integrations, and system boundaries.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and evolving software architecture across complex systems, multiple codebases, or related product domains.

• A strong product engineering mindset, capable of translating product requirements into clear technical designs, staged delivery plans, and high-quality implementations.

• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical decisions effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• A coaching mindset—someone who enjoys fostering the growth of others, elevating standards, and ensuring best practices are followed without ego.

• Experience with PHP and Vue/Vue components.

• Experience working on membership, community, personalization, gamification, or user-retention products.

• Experience with high-traffic websites.

• Experience applying Domain-Driven Design, SOLID, GRASP, or other software design principles in a practical product environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Professional development.

• Flexible work arrangements.