Staff Software Engineer
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About the Role
We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical foundation of a modern digital platform within a regulated environment. You will work across backend services, frontend applications, APIs, workflows, and platform foundations.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of core platform services, APIs, frontend applications, dashboards, and internal tools
- Build full stack solutions across backend systems, user experiences, workflow logic, and integrations
- Use modern productivity tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, prototyping, and delivery
- Design orchestration and workflow logic across services, vendors, business processes, and external systems
- Drive integration architecture with third party platforms, enterprise systems, identity providers, financial systems, and external services
- Partner closely with product, design, security, business, and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Think end to end across product, user experience, architecture, delivery, operations, and long term maintainability
- Define and improve engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testing, observability, security, and operational excellence
- Mentor engineers and help raise the team’s artificial intelligence native engineering practices
- Contribute to long term platform strategy including build versus buy decisions, extensibility, and maintainability
Requirements
- Eight or more years of software engineering experience with strong experience building and operating production systems
- Experience working at senior or staff level on complex distributed platforms
- Strong full stack engineering background across backend systems and frontend applications
- Strong backend development experience in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or Node.js
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, or similar
- Deep experience with service oriented or microservices based architectures
- Strong understanding of API design, event driven systems, workflow orchestration, and distributed systems patterns
- Hands on experience integrating with third party systems and external APIs in reliable, secure, and scalable ways
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP along with containerized deployment patterns
- Strong understanding of security, reliability, resilience, observability, and performance at scale
- Ability to use artificial intelligence tools effectively as part of the software development lifecycle
- Strong product sense and ability to think beyond assigned tickets toward customer outcomes, platform value, and business impact
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Discover the opportunity
- We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the technical foundation of a strategic initiative from an early stage.
- Our client is building a modern digital platform within a regulated and integration heavy environment that brings together core product capabilities, workflow orchestration, and artificial intelligence native engineering practices.
- This is an opportunity that offers strong ownership, broad scope, and meaningful architectural depth for someone ready to move away from traditional engineering approaches.
Discover the responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of core platform services, APIs, frontend applications, dashboards, and internal tools
- Build full stack solutions across backend systems, user experiences, workflow logic, and integrations
- Use modern productivity tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, prototyping, and delivery
- Design orchestration and workflow logic across services, vendors, business processes, and external systems
- Drive integration architecture with third party platforms, enterprise systems, identity providers, financial systems, and external services
- Partner closely with product, design, security, business, and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Think end to end across product, user experience, architecture, delivery, operations, and long term maintainability
- Define and improve engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testing, observability, security, and operational excellence
- Mentor engineers and help raise the team’s artificial intelligence native engineering practices
- Contribute to long term platform strategy including build versus buy decisions, extensibility, and maintainability
Discover the requirements
- Eight or more years of software engineering experience with strong experience building and operating production systems
- Experience working at senior or staff level on complex distributed platforms
- Strong full stack engineering background across backend systems and frontend applications
- Strong backend development experience in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or Node.js
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, or similar
- Deep experience with service oriented or microservices based architectures
- Strong understanding of API design, event driven systems, workflow orchestration, and distributed systems patterns
- Hands on experience integrating with third party systems and external APIs in reliable, secure, and scalable ways
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP along with containerized deployment patterns
- Strong understanding of security, reliability, resilience, observability, and performance at scale
- Ability to use artificial intelligence tools effectively as part of the software development lifecycle
- Strong product sense and ability to think beyond assigned tickets toward customer outcomes, platform value, and business impact
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