Staff Software Engineer - Investor/Owner
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Job description
- Drive the technical vision and strategy across the Owner subsegment, influencing the product roadmap and making key architectural decisions that align with business goals.
- Lead the design and implementation of complex, distributed systems that power our next-generation products, preparing our systems for a 10x increase in traffic and engagement.
- Act as a force multiplier by coaching engineers and fostering a high-trust, autonomous culture where continuous learning and ownership are the norms.
- Collaborate as a peer with Product, Design, and Machine Learning leaders to bridge the gap between "what's possible" in AI and "what's valuable" for our customers.
- Operate in a highly autonomous team that owns the full lifecycle of solutions you build, from discovery to development to production
- Proactively research, share, and apply new technologies and patterns that improve system quality and accelerate delivery.
- Use test-driven development, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver high-quality software and rapidly fix bugs as they come up.
Requirements
Do you have a Master's degree?, * You have 8+ years of experience developing and scaling web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment.
- You have a track record of leading high-stakes projects from initial ambiguity to successful launch-aligning stakeholders, making tough technical trade-offs, and ensuring long-term system health.
- You have experience leading architectural discussions, defining system design, and guiding technical decision-making.
- You have proactively adopted AI tooling into your daily workflow. You don't just use these tools; you understand how to prompt, iterate, and validate AI-generated output to maintain the highest standards of excellence.
- You take a pragmatic approach to technology, adopting new tools where they add value, while mastering proven technologies.
- You care about long-term maintainability, advocate for clean architecture, and drive continuous refactoring and improvement.
- You balance intensity and sustainability-you'll go the extra mile when needed but also model healthy work-life balance.
- You have an ability to solve complex problems without a roadmap
- You love to learn about and use new tech, but understand the value of continuing to leverage existing technology when it gets the job done.
- You care about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and advocate for refactoring and code cleanliness.
- You can identify and resolve code-smells through sensible refactoring.
- You care about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and will learn to advocate for refactoring and clean-ups where appropriate.
- You care about work-life balance and want your company to care about it, too; you'll put in the extra hour when needed but won't let it become a habit.
Nice To Have
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- Experience with technologies in our stack such as Ruby on Rails, Golang, React, AWS, or service-oriented architectures.
Benefits & conditions
3.73.7 out of 5 stars Washington, DC $167,200 - $209,000 a year - Full-time, The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $167,200 - $209,000. The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's skills, education, experience, etc. Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type. Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here #LI-SS2