Staff Software Engineer (Node.js/TypeScript)

Responsibilities

• Define and drive reusable, reliable, and scalable back-end architectures across platform and integrations.
• Lead the design, work breakdown, and development of high-performance, API-based backend services that meet service-level objectives (SLOs) and scale with business demand.
• Champion technical excellence by promoting best practices in system design, operational maturity, and engineering quality.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and product partners to align on back-end strategies and standards, improve API and integration consistency, and reduce duplication.
• Serve as a back-end thought leader and mentor, coaching engineers and shaping team- and department-wide best practices.
• Treat components and libraries as products — develop excellent documentation, usage patterns, and internal developer experience (DX).
• Modernize legacy systems and upgrade legacy technology stacks.
• Contribute full-stack as needed, collaborating with backend developers to integrate UIs with APIs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience in backend software development, with a strong focus on designing, building, and operating large-scale and highly available systems, including microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• 3+ years architecting and building cloud-native solutions on AWS, leveraging services such as EKS, RDS, MSK, S3, and Lambda, including deploying, monitoring, and scaling applications in production.
• Strong system design skills with the ability to evaluate trade-offs, drive consensus, and document design decisions effectively.
• Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and gRPC, selecting the most appropriate interface for given technical and business requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB) data stores, caching strategies (Redis), and messaging systems (Kafka), implemented at scale.
• Proven experience building observability into systems using tools like DataDog or OpenTelemetry.
• Understanding of modern application security principles, including secure API design, data encryption, authentication/authorization (OAuth2, JWT), and role-based access control.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and security integration throughout the SDLC.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and supporting their growth in technical depth, architecture, and leadership.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and upgrading legacy technology stacks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the Node.js ecosystem.
• Experience with serverless and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience working in large-scale or high-availability production environments.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across team boundaries.

Posted On: July 24, 2026

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