Staff Engineer

We are looking for a highly experienced Staff Engineer to join our team and take a leading role in shaping our engineering strategy, driving technical excellence, and enhancing the developer experience.

As a Staff Engineer, you will provide thought leadership in defining best practices, fostering innovation, and mentoring engineers to navigate complex technical challenges. Your contributions will ensure our platform remains aligned with our product strategy, business growth, and long-term strategic vision.

You’ll spend time on the following

• Partnering with engineering and product leaders to align technical initiatives with long-term business objectives.
• Identifying and executing key initiatives to improve system performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Enhancing developer experience by improving tooling, workflows, and way of working.
• Role model on quality and efficiency by actively contributing to codebases, driving best practices, and demonstrating excellence through hands-on work.
• Providing coaching and mentorship to engineers, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and professional growth.
• Supporting teams in making well-informed technical decisions by balancing trade-offs, risk, and business impact.
• Leading architectural decisions to build a high-quality, maintainable, and extensible platform.
• Driving proactive measures to minimize technical debt and ensure structured execution of platform initiatives.
• Embedding AI technologies in our stack to enable new AI-driven capabilities in our product.

Here’s what we’re looking for

• You are inspired by our mission to put one billion people in dream jobs
• You are fully aligned with our behaviors
• You are a fast learner and always eager to have a direct impact on our stack and platform.
• You have a strong background in architecting scalable systems and defining technical standards.
• You excel at mentoring and coaching engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
• You have a proven ability to anticipate potential risks, align technical initiatives with business priorities, and deliver impactful results.
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of validating and clearly articulating decisions.
• You have strong time management skills, including the ability to prioritize effectively.
• You thrive in ambiguity and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives.
• You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
• You are comfortable with the ambiguity and pace of an early-stage startup

Bonus points if …

• Experience using AI to enhance developer productivity (e.g., automation, code generation, intelligent tooling).
• Expertise in high-transaction, high-data-volume SaaS platforms, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning workflows, data pipelines, and AI model deployment in production.