Staff Software Engineer

What makes this role compelling is the scale and depth of impact. You'll be responsible for evolving a mission-critical platform without interrupting live enterprise operations, consolidating a diverse technology stack, and enabling faster customer onboarding and deployment. This is a highly technical role for an experienced engineer who enjoys untangling legacy systems, defining modernization strategy, and leading by example in a small, high-leverage team. Required Skills & Experience, * 40% Backend and platform modernization (Go, Node, PHP)

• 35% Frontend consolidation and UI modernization (React/Vue)
• 25% Architecture, migration planning, and technical leadership

Daily Responsibilities

• 65% Hands-on development and refactoring
• 20% Technical planning, documentation, and architecture ownership
• 15% Mentorship and cross-functional collaboration

You'll modernize an enterprise platform while it remains live, consolidating frontend and backend technologies into a more maintainable and scalable architecture. Day to day, you'll analyze legacy PHP and C components, identify high-leverage refactoring targets, and introduce new service layers that integrate payments, compliance tooling, marketplace capabilities, and external data providers. You'll also play a key role in reducing onboarding complexity, supporting a cloud migration, delivering new enterprise workflows, and raising the overall technical bar for the team. The Offer

• Bonus eligible

• 8+ years of experience building and maintaining production software in complex domains
• Proven ownership of system architecture across multiple engineers and long-lived codebases
• Strong experience with React and/or Vue for frontend development
• Backend experience with Go and/or Node.js, building shared services and APIs
• Hands-on experience working in legacy codebases, including PHP and lower-level languages
• Ability to analyze deeply embedded business logic and plan incremental refactors safely
• Strong written communication skills, including technical design docs, ADRs, and migration plans
• Deep familiarity with AI-native development workflows, used as a core productivity multiplier
• Ability to work independently as the most senior engineer on a small team

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting or leading cloud infrastructure migrations (AWS preferred)
• Exposure to C or systems-level programming
• Background in accounting, billing, ERP, or financial systems
• Experience with vertical SaaS or operational software
• Familiarity with strangler-pattern or layered modernization approaches
• Experience integrating with external APIs, including payments, government data, or vehicle services
• Prior ownership of platform consolidation or system unification efforts