Staff Software Engineer – Web

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

📋 Description

• Lead the design and architecture of the Next.js and React web platform, selecting appropriate rendering strategies for each page type.

• Take responsibility for mobile-first performance and Core Web Vitals by establishing budgets, monitoring real user data, and driving measurable improvements.

• Collaborate with SEO and marketing teams on technical SEO aspects such as crawlability, indexation, structured data, canonicals, redirects, sitemaps, and SEM landing pages.

• Develop Node.js services and APIs utilizing MongoDB and relational databases, implementing edge and server-layer caching.

• Enhance the Sanity headless CMS to enable content and marketing teams to publish pages independently.

• Establish foundations for experimentation and analytics, including feature flags, A/B testing, SSR-safe flag evaluations, and event taxonomy.

• Promote testing, continuous deployment, pipeline automation, and the adoption of design systems.

• Review code, create reference implementations, and provide mentorship to engineers.

• Troubleshoot production issues across browser, CDN, rendering, and service layers, and implement measures to prevent recurrence.

• Collaborate with product and project managers to ensure timely delivery and maintain comprehensive technical documentation.

• Architect smaller AI features from start to finish, including retrieval, orchestration, failure modes, and monitoring.

• Guide the implementation of responsible AI patterns, testing, and observability.

• Work with the Product team to evaluate AI feasibility, technical risks, costs, and scalability.

• Identify reusable AI frameworks and components that can benefit other teams.

• Enhance AI evaluation practices, quality scoring metrics, and fallbacks.

• Regularly utilize AI coding agents and assist in defining team adoption strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of software engineering experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js, particularly with high-traffic public websites.

• In-depth expertise in Next.js or similar frameworks, including SSR, SSG/ISR, CSR, hydration, and streaming techniques.

• Demonstrated success in improving Core Web Vitals and mobile performance using Lighthouse, CrUX, and real-user monitoring tools.

• Strong knowledge of technical SEO, particularly regarding JavaScript rendering's impact on search engines.

• Proficient understanding of back-end technologies, specifically Node.js APIs and services, MongoDB, and relational databases.

• Familiarity with headless CMS concepts, including content modeling, previewing, and publishing workflows.

• Knowledge of experimentation, feature flagging, and product analytics.

• Practical experience in building features backed by LLMs, including prompt design, retrieval, structured output, and management of evaluation, cost, and latency.

• Proficient use of AI coding agents.

• Experience with AWS, CDNs, and edge caching solutions.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Proven record of technical leadership, establishing standards, mentoring engineers, and ensuring quality from design to production.

• Familiarity with any of the specified stack technologies is an advantage.

• Experience with programmatic SEO at scale, SEM landing pages, conversion rate optimization, edge rendering and middleware, or healthcare/privacy-aware analytics is beneficial.

• Must be authorized to work in the US.

• Must indicate whether current or future employment visa sponsorship is needed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Equal employment opportunities.

• Confidential handling of applicant information in accordance with EEO guidelines.