Chestnut

Software Engineer (Staff-Level)

Full-time · San Francisco (Remote)
✓ Verified live on the employer's own system · added 375 days ago
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Senior · 8+ yrs exp

Requirements

Experience: 8+ years

Skills & tools

Team LeadershipCode ReviewHiringFrontend DevCommunicationsJavascriptReactDevops

Benefits — mentioned in this posting

Equity / stockPaid time offHealth, dental & vision
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What You'll Do

- Lead the design and implementation of critical systems that serve as building blocks for the platform

- Make architectural decisions that optimize for scale, performance, and maintainability

- Partner with product, design, and other engineering leaders to define roadmaps and scope technical investments

- Identify and unblock high-risk areas across teams, diving deep when needed

- Raise the bar for engineering excellence through mentorship, modeling, and thoughtful code review

- Help establish engineering culture, norms, and hiring standards as we grow

You Might Be a Fit If You...

- Have 8+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems

- Have led architecture or technical strategy for a product or platform team

- Are comfortable working across backend, data, and infra layers (and diving into frontend when needed)

- Think in systems and excel at finding pragmatic solutions to messy problems

- Are excited to shape the technical direction of a growing company

- Have strong communication skills and enjoy working across disciplines

- Are energized by ambiguity, real-world data, and building for scale

Our Stack

- Languages: Go, TypeScript

- Frontend: React, Tailwind

- Infra: K8s, ArgoCD, Kargo, Temporal, Dagster

- Data: Postgres, Dynamo, Snowflake

Benefits

- Competitive salary and equity, with 10 year exercise window for stock options

- Remote-first culture built on trust, autonomy, and high performance

- Team offsites for all of us to bond

- Take what you need vacation policy

- Top notch health, dental, and vision insurance subsidized by us

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