Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Vision
• Own multi-quarter technical roadmaps for platform systems, translating company goals into durable architectural decisions.
• Define and evangelize engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across teams — writing the documents other engineers reference.
• Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems and ensure long-term technical scalability across the stack.
• Identify and resolve systemic technical risks before they become production incidents.
• Organizational Impact
• Lead multi-team technical design processes — writing RFCs, facilitating alignment, and driving decisions to closure.
• Actively develop senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and structured feedback.
• Translate complex technical tradeoffs into business impact for non-technical stakeholders including executives and customers.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to define and deliver solutions for our customers.
• Contribute to hiring by interviewing candidates and helping define what "great" looks like at Observable Space.
• Execution & Engineering Excellence
• Design, build, and maintain Kotlin backend microservices, C++ edge applications, and reactive frontends.
• Design and optimize relational database schemas, ETL pipelines, and data warehousing solutions.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across the full software stack (backend, frontend, and edge).
• Ensure high reliability and performance in production systems, and establish the observability practices that make this possible.
• Basic Qualifications:
• 8+ years of experience in a relevant software engineering role, with at least 2–3 years in a Staff, Principal, or technical lead capacity.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction beyond your immediate team — through documents, standards, or organizational initiatives.
• Track record of improving engineering quality, velocity, or culture at an organizational level.