Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the microservices landscape by defining service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and integration patterns to support scalable product growth.
• Translate customer requirements into product capabilities by partnering with Product and stakeholders to clarify needs, define scope, craft technical approaches, and deliver in increments.
• Provide technical and thought leadership across teams, establishing architecture standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers, customers, and engineering teams to solve complex problems and drive outcomes.
• Build and maintain services using Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and PHP, with SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Design and implement extensible REST APIs and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization using OAuth2 and JWT based access tokens.
• Develop and operate cloud-native solutions on AWS with emphasis on reliability, security, and observability.
• Drive CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automated testing practices across services.
• Lead technical planning, decomposition, and delivery across multiple workstreams; ensure quality, performance, and operability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, architecture reviews, and coaching initiatives.
• Analyze cloud cost drivers, forecast impacts, and integrate cost-awareness into architecture decisions.
• Establish and enhance operational readiness including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• 8+ years in architecture and system design, with a focus on reliability and scalability.
• Significant production experience architecting microservices: domain-driven service modeling, API versioning, backward compatibility.
• Proven use of resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers) and distributed tracing in microservice environments.
• Experience with data ownership and consistency strategies (sagas, outbox, eventual consistency).
• Track record of translating customer requirements into product outcomes via discovery, scoping, tradeoffs, and iterative delivery; collaboration with Product, UX, and customer-facing teams.
• Strong proficiency in at least two of Node.js/TypeScript, Python, PHP, with ability to work across all four as needed.
• 4+ years of cloud experience, with a strong preference for AWS (IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including data modeling and service-owned persistence.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration; Kubernetes/EKS preferred where applicable.
• Familiarity with OAuth2 and JWT, and modern service authentication/authorization practices.
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and engineering best practices.
• Expert-level proficiency with Cursor or comparable AI coding tools for prompting, refactoring, test generation, debugging, and safe-use discipline.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Technologies

• Node.js, TypeScript, Python, PHP
• SQL, NoSQL
• OAuth2, JWT
• Cursor
• AWS (IAM, VPC, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch)
• REST APIs, service-to-service communication
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Prescription drug insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Snacks provided
• Vision insurance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS, Kinesis, Kafka) and distributed systems.
• Strong observability and production-ops ownership (metrics, logs, traces).
• Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or developer productivity tooling.
• Publications or speaking engagements at credible conferences or journals (optional).

Work Location

Hybrid remote work arrangement in Round Rock, Texas 78664.

Pay

USD 130,000.00 to 160,000.00 per year.