Senior Staff Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of software engineering experience to help lead the design and development of large-scale mission-critical systems.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can operate at high technical depth influence across teams and drive complex engineering initiatives from early problem definition through architecture execution launch and long-term operational ownership.

The ideal candidate is not only a strong architect but also someone who remains close to code understands implementation trade-offs mentors other engineers and raises the engineering bar across the organization.

• Own broad ambiguous and high-impact technical charters across multiple teams or systems.
• Design and build scalable reliable and maintainable distributed systems.
• Lead architecture and technical strategy for critical platform backend infrastructure or product engineering initiatives.
• Break down complex technical problems into clear execution plans.
• Partner closely with Product Engineering Infrastructure Security Data and business stakeholders.
• Make high-quality technical decisions around scale reliability performance latency availability observability and long-term maintainability.
• Stay meaningfully hands-on through design reviews code reviews debugging prototyping and implementation-level decision-making.
• Identify technical risks early and drive alignment on durable solutions.
• Mentor Staff Senior and mid-level engineers and help grow technical leadership within the team.
• Establish engineering best practices reusable patterns and high standards for design coding testing and operations.
• Influence technical direction without relying on formal authority.
• Improve system quality through better architecture operational maturity incident learnings and platform-level thinking.

• 15 years of software engineering experience preferably in backend platform infrastructure distributed systems product engineering or systems engineering.
• Proven experience operating at Senior Staff / Principal / Staff technical scope.
• Deep hands-on engineering foundation with strong coding debugging design and system-building experience.
• Strong programming ability in one or more backend/general-purpose languages such as Python Java Go C Scala Kotlin or C#.
• Experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
• Strong architecture and system design depth across distributed systems APIs databases data modeling concurrency reliability observability and performance.
• Ability to own ambiguous cross-functional multi-team technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to make trade-offs across speed quality scale reliability cost and long-term maintainability.
• Ability to influence senior engineers product leaders and cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.
• Strong mentorship mindset with a track record of raising the technical bar for other engineers.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced high-ambiguity environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in high-growth hyper-growth or product-led technology companies.
• Experience building financial products at scale.
• Exposure to payroll domain would be a plus.
• Prior experience in SaaS fintech HR tech payroll benefits compliance IT data platforms or workflow-heavy domains.
• Ability to operate as a builder-leader someone who can define direction align stakeholders and still stay close to execution.