Staff Software Engineer - Full-Stack

What you'll be working on:

• Play a central role in architecting our services, frontends, databases, and mobile app.
• Tackle technical challenges relating to how we unify our products into our Super.com app and ensure a high quality user experience
• Be a go-to full-stack technical expert acting at the intersection of multiple teams helping to mentor other less experienced team members. 
• Propel the business forward by driving high-impact projects, leveraging other engineers and teams as appropriate in some cases serving as the cross functional context holder ensuring efficient delivery when cross functional work is necessary. 
• Work across multiple codebases, as you contribute to them, improve them, and share findings and suggestions with other engineers at guild meetings (technical guilds discuss and set engineering standards)
• Help shape the technical roadmap for the engineering organization by contributing to OKR brainstorming sessions 
• Create and present cross-team and cross-eng technical presentations focused on improving developer experience, engineering productivity, and processes
• Be largely self-directed in terms of project selection and execution
• Report into the Engineering Director for the vertical

Our Technology:

• We use a state of the art architecture powered by Node and Python microservices and React frontend
• We use Postgres for storage, Redis for caching, and Snowflake for our data warehouse
• We use Gitlab for version control and CI/CD, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS, making use of Kubernetes, RDS, etc
• We invest heavily in monitoring and automated alerting using Datadog
• We use Amplitude, Hotjar, and LogRocket for client-side metrics and experimentation
• We use Material-UI and maintain our own component library, using Figma for mock-ups
• We integrate with a multitude of third-parties to support our compliance, risk, and security policies]

Who we're looking for:

• You have a total of 10+ years of work experience in Software Development, including at least 5 years as a Senior Software Engineer or at least 2 years as a Staff Software Engineer / Sole Technical Lead / Architect.
• You have worked on large-scale projects, defined either by QPS, active users, or data volume, and have demonstrated the ability to design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and reliable systems. 
• You have at least senior technical depth in full-stack development including frontend, web servers, and databases
• You have been a technical lead (not necessarily people lead) for shipping major projects, have worked with multiple complex codebases, and have worked across teams
• You have mentored more junior engineers (not necessarily reports)
• You are highly motivated / passionate, versatile, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced startup environment, with an emphasis on delivering business value
• You have experience owning production services, working in an agile environment, and collaborating with Product Managers, Designers, and business stakeholders
• You have experience working on cross-functional projects
• You have strong knowledge of modern web technologies, system design & architecture, and microservices, and keep up-to-date with them
• You are an excellent communicator, for both technical and non-technical topics