Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

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

📋 Description

• Establish the technical vision for Member Growth's systems and oversee the evolution of architecture across teams.

• Recognize high-impact issues related to funnels, platforms, and workflows, and incorporate them into the roadmap along with proposals.

• Create technical designs and RFCs that include architecture diagrams, various options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

• Make system-wide decisions regarding eventing, workflow orchestration, caching, asynchronous pipelines, and the introduction of new services.

• Design systems for horizontal scalability and consistent low latency under real-world traffic conditions.

• Break down services into scalable components and strategize migration pathways.

• Collaborate with Frontend Core, Backend Core, Data, and product teams on shared systems, boundaries, and contracts.

• Deconstruct ambiguous multi-team challenges into actionable plans with clear ownership, driving them to completion.

• Foster consensus among engineers, Product, and leadership.

• Instrument systems, connect engineering decisions to results, and support delivered work with data.

• Implement test-driven development, emphasizing quality, reliability, and observability.

• Present options and recommendations to Product and Design teams.

• Establish engineering standards; mentor, review, challenge, and elevate engineers.

• Take ownership of SLAs and operational standards for Member Growth interfaces.

• Enhance team productivity through AI-driven tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in building and managing high-traffic, customer-facing systems, including technical leadership across multiple teams.

• Strong foundation in computer science principles: object-oriented design, relational database design, and systems reasoning.

• Proficient at system and cloud levels, including eventing (Kafka, SNS, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), distributed systems trade-offs, caching, asynchronous pipelines, idempotency, and backpressure.

• Comfortable navigating across different layers and stacks; views programming languages as tools rather than an identity.

• Familiar with AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.) and able to articulate trade-offs between relational, document, and wide-column databases.

• Proven track record of delivering high-impact, customer-facing features in production at scale.

• History of defining technical direction, including written proposals, adopted architectures, completed migrations, and standards that others adhere to.

• Strong written and visual communication skills; adept at using diagrams, design documents, and proposals to articulate thoughts.

• Ability to influence others without authority among engineers, Product, and leadership.

• Experience in effectively elevating the skills of engineers.

• Capable of concise, high-level communication; provides options along with recommendations rather than exhaustive details.

• Customer-first mindset: prioritizing Customer, Team, and Business, in that sequence.

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (such as New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to uphold SLA, Apdex, and error rate metrics.

• Experience in growth, e-commerce, subscription, or membership domains is advantageous, including knowledge of funnels, experimentation, attribution, pixels, payments, and recurring billing.

• Relevant stack experience with PHP/Magento, React/Next, and AWS in relation to the current environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance).

• Competitive salary plus equity options.

• 401k Employer Match.

• 9 Observed Holidays.

• Flexible Paid Time Off policy.

• Subsidized ClassPass Membership, granting access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences.

• Opportunity to work in our beautiful office located in Playa Vista.

• Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discounts.

• Coverage for Life Coaching and Therapy Sessions through our holistic mental health and well-being platform.