Job Title:Senior Software Engineer / Staff Engineer
Role Summary:We are seeking a highly autonomous and self-sufficient Senior/Staff Engineer to act as a key technical partner to our Product Manager and Senior Leadership Team. Your primary responsibility will be to identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks and process inefficiencies across the business to deliver outcomes for our most important metrics to drive growth with an initial focus on international production and logistics. This is a hands-on individual contributor role for an experienced builder who thrives on solving ambiguous high-leverage business problems and delivering scalable solutions with minimal oversight.
What youll do:
- Proactively identify and investigate business-critical process issues and bottlenecks.
- Work independently to scope design and deliver scalable technical solutions.
- Act as a technical leader and force multiplier by building tools and systems that enable the business to scale efficiently.
- Collaborate deeply with the Product Manager to understand business needs provide technical insights prioritize key initiatives and enhance each others thinking.
- Move fluidly between different problem domains based on the highest impact opportunities for the business.
Who you are:
- A seasoned engineer with a proven track record of tackling complex high-impact technical challenges.
- An excellent communicator who can work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Self-sufficient and comfortable working with high-level direction rather than a detailed pre-defined backlog.
- A systems thinker who can connect business problems to technical scalable solutions.
Skills & Experience:
- Backend Development: Deep expertise in modern backend development with strong proficiency in PHP and its frameworks especially Laravel. Experience with Python is also highly valued.
- Database Management: Strong command of SQL and extensive experience designing optimizing and maintaining relational databases (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL).
- Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience building and deploying scalable solutions on cloud platforms with a strong preference for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- System Architecture: Proven ability to design build and maintain robust scalable systems. Experience with API design (REST GraphQL) service-oriented architecture and event-driven systems is a major plus.
- DevOps & Tooling: Familiarity with modern DevOps practices including containerization (Docker) CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform).