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# mission-critical Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** PLANOLY HOLDINGS, INC.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Database Schema, Mobile Application Software, PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, ReactJS, Stripe, Playwright, Graphql, React Native, JestJS, Data Pipelines, Monolithic Repository
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/staff-software-engineer-509978033

## About the Role

* Experienced enough to have opinions: eight or more years building production software, or six if your track record is unusually strong - you have shipped things, maintained them, and learned what you would do differently
 * Deep in TypeScript and React: strong fundamentals rather than framework trivia, and genuine comfort moving across the stack - schema, resolver, component, screen - without needing a handoff at each boundary
 * Mobile-capable or mobile-curious: React Native or Expo experience, or the appetite and aptitude to get there quickly - the mobile app is a real part of this role, not an occasional errand
 * A leader without the title: you have led a small team or a significant initiative - tech lead, founding engineer, or simply the person others gravitate toward when something hard needs doing. No management experience required
 * Fluent with AI coding agents: they are part of how you work day to day, and you have a considered sense of where they accelerate you and where they need supervision
 * Pragmatic by instinct: you ship and iterate rather than over-architect, you can tell the difference between a decision that is expensive to reverse and one that is not, and you spend your design budget accordingly
 * Comfortable with ambiguity: you can scope your own work, set your own quality bar, and make progress without waiting to be told what to do next
 * No task beneath you: shared billing logic, a flaky Playwright test, a customer bug that turns out to be a data problem - you treat the unglamorous work as the job, because at this team size it is
 * US-based and authorised to work without new sponsorship - transfers are possible. Core hours overlapping Central Time
 * Experience in the creator economy, social platforms, or content tooling is a strong plus, not a requirement

## Description

The Role: Staff Software Engineer

As Staff Software Engineer, you will lead a squad and build alongside it. You will scope the work, set the timeline, keep your engineers unblocked - and then write the code with them. This is a hands-on staff role, not a step away from the keyboard.

As Staff Software Engineer, you will:

 * Ship end to end: take features from database schema and GraphQL resolvers through to React components and mobile screens, owning the whole vertical slice rather than a layer of it
 * Own the shared core: build and maintain the authentication, permissions, notifications and billing logic that every other surface depends on - the work that has to be right
 * Complete the mobile experience: finish and refine the React Native app, bringing it to the same standard as the web product
 * Design durable background workflows: build the scheduling, payments and integration pipelines that have to run reliably at 3am without anyone watching them
 * Lead a squad without managing it: set direction, unblock people, raise the technical bar by example - the influence comes from the work, not a title
 * Shape what gets built: work directly with product, design and marketing on the problem, not just the implementation

The Stack: Next.js, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind and a custom Radix design system. GraphQL with Apollo. Node.js, PostgreSQL with Drizzle, Stripe, Novu and Inngest. React Native with Expo. Vercel, a Turborepo monorepo, Vitest and Playwright. Nobody is expected to arrive knowing all of it.