Staff Software Engineer (Platform Core Team) at Félix — Seattle, USA | Base Career

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Front-end: React, HTTP, HTML/DOM, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX
Back-end: Python, Flask/FastAPI, REST APIs, Redis, SQL, gRPC
Cloud: Google Cloud services (Firestore, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Google Artifact Registry, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, etc.)

Architect & Build: Design, build, and optimize foundational microservices and infrastructure that power the company’s products.
System Resilience: Improve the resilience of the platform by designing systems that gracefully handle failures. Implement monitoring and observability solutions, improve incident response processes, and build mechanisms such as retries, circuit breakers, fallbacks, and automated recovery strategies.
Scalability & Performance: Identify bottlenecks, improve system efficiency, and ensure services support continued hyper-growth while maintaining high availability.
Strategic Technical Leadership: Set the architectural vision for the platform. Understand how services interact, how data flows through the system, and how decisions made in one area impact the broader platform.
Cross-Squad Collaboration: Work alongside other Staff Engineers across Payments, Disbursements, and GRC to align on shared infrastructure, API contracts, and event-driven standards.
Mentorship & Talent Development: Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers, championing best practices in system design, testing, domain-driven design, and engineering culture.
Fast-paced execution: Thrive in an agile, high-velocity environment, translating product requirements into production-ready code with speed and precision.

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record in building and operating complex distributed systems.
Expertise in backend technologies such as Python (preferred), Go, or Java, along with solid experience in REST APIs, gRPC, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

Staff Software Engineer (Platform Core Team)