Staff Software Engineer

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help grow and build the core platform that powers our Flowcode 2 application at scale. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, leadership, and pragmatic execution with a focus on creating and augmenting reliable, scalable, and extensible services and applications.

You'll operate as a technical leader with in our Platform pod, growing platform capabilities, building new features and problem solving in a dynamic and challenging technical environment.. While this is a hands-on role, it requires a strong bias toward backend systems, distributed architecture and deep technical leadership.

We value the ability to guide teams toward pragmatic, high-impact solutions.

This role is ideal for an engineer who values simplicity, correctness, and pragmatism, and who can balance long-term platform investments with immediate business needs.

- Own critical systems end-to-end, including design, implementation and deployment,

- Hands on designing, building, and maintaining scalable features across a modern front-end framework and backend services.

- Mentor and guide senior engineers, raising the bar for technical execution and system design across teams.

- Balance ideal engineering with the realities of speed, customer needs, and startup resource constraints.

- Drive improvements in observability, performance, and incident response

- Advocate for pragmatic solutions, solving the right problems with the appropriate level of complexity.

- 8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems, with a strong backend focus.

- Deep expertise in building high-performance, concurrent services.

- Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.

- Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, and consistency tradeoffs Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern deployment patterns (Docker, Kubernetes).

- Proficiency in several modern backend language (e.g., Go, Python, C#,, Java).

- Strong grasp of scalability and performance, able to make informed tradeoffs between speed and correctness.

- A builder's mentality, comfortable taking initiative and owning outcomes from design through production.

- A history of working with in 20+ person engineering organizations and collaborating with Product and Design to enable feature delivery at a reasonable velocity

A successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The current range for this role is up to $280-$310k plus equity.