Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead across key initiatives, shaping architecture and engineering best practices while delivering meaningful product experiences for immigrants and their families.
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex, high-impact problems.
• Guide other engineers in making thoughtful technical decisions.
• Help scale the engineering organization by actively contributing to hiring, onboarding, and shaping a collaborative, inclusive culture.
• Take technical ownership of a major product or service area, driving architectural decisions and collaborating with other tech leads.
• Partner with PMs and stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into clearly defined technical solutions.
• Lead technical discovery and planning for cross-team initiatives.
• Help define and uphold engineering standards, ensuring code quality, performance, and testability.
• Participate in hiring processes to attract and assess top engineering talent.
• Mentor engineers, supporting their growth and increasing overall engineering velocity.
• Propose and execute on structural improvements to the codebase, technical processes, or infrastructure.
• Lead complex, multi-sprint efforts and foster an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software development, with a strong background in backend systems and product-driven engineering.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering scalable architecture in production environments.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend framework (Rails preferred, but not required) and working knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Comfortable working across the stack and owning features end-to-end.
• Deep commitment to code quality, reliability, and thoughtful testing practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading by influence.
• Collaborative and effective communicator, especially when navigating ambiguity.
• Passionate about building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams through hiring, mentorship, and cultural leadership.
• Eager to contribute beyond code; through onboarding, project scoping, or shaping the future of engineering.

Nice to Have

• Expertise in security practices.

Qualifications

• Educational background is not explicitly specified, but extensive experience (10+ years) in software development is required.

Benefits & Perks

• Base salary typically $170,000 - $220,000, dependent on experience and qualifications.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K match, life and AD&D insurance, short-term disability insurance, commuter benefits, flexible spending accounts, pet insurance discounts, and cell phone plan discounts.