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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Core Architecture - **Company:** OWNER - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $240,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Data Governance, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Node.Js, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Factory, TypeScript, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Kubernetes, Production Code, Microservices - **Published:** June 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5472eabf4e9eaa93 ## About the Role * 8+ years of professional software engineering experience at high-growth startups or large scale platforms * Demonstrated experience leading architectural design for large, distributed systems * Experience breaking down monoliths into service-oriented architectures or microservices * Deep expertise in scaling backend systems to handle high throughput and complex operational concerns * Strong understanding of auth systems, security boundary design, and distributed identity * Clear decision-making in ambiguous technical situations * Excellent communicator - able to articulate trade-offs to engineers and cross-functional partners Nice to Have * Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, MongoDB, Postgres (our main stack) * Experience building or owning engineering standards and platform foundations * Previous roles as a principal, staff, or distinguished engineer ## Description We're seeking a Staff Engineer to join our Core Architecture Team, a small, senior group of engineers responsible for solving the hardest technical problems across the platform. This is a deeply hands-on role. You will spend a significant portion of your time designing, building, and shipping production code in the most critical parts of our system, while also providing architectural leadership across teams. This is not an ivory-tower architect position - success in this role requires comfort operating directly in complex codebases, debugging real production issues, and owning end-to-end execution of high-risk technical initiatives. You'll work on initiatives such as: * Safely decomposing our monolithic backend, writing and owning the new systems that replace it * Redesigning distributed authentication and authorization systems, including implementation and rollout * Architecting and building for 100× platform scale, with hands-on ownership of performance, reliability, and cost * Building an AI-powered "Software Factory" - a multi-agent system that takes engineering tasks from ticket to PR, orchestrated via Temporal, Slack, and sandboxed Kubernetes dev environments * Pioneering practical AI-assisted development - dynamic tool curation, multi-channel human-in-the-loop workflows, and "fast-fail" guardrails that know when to hand back to a human * Setting technical direction by doing the work, not just reviewing it * Driving engineering standards, tooling, and fundamentals across teams * Mentoring technical leaders and influencing the engineering direction of the company What You'll Do Hands-On Engineering * Design, implement, and maintain core backend systems that are foundational to the platform * Write production code in high-impact areas, including services, shared libraries, infrastructure, and tooling * Define the security boundary for autonomous agents - user identity propagation, task-scoped tool access via a centralized Tool Shed, and sandboxing to limit blast radius * Lead the execution of technically complex projects end-to-end, from design through rollout and iteration * Debug and resolve hard production problems involving scale, data consistency, performance, and reliability Architecture & Technical Leadership * Drive architectural decisions through prototypes, code, and real implementations, not just diagrams * Establish patterns and best practices for service boundaries, APIs, data ownership, and distributed systems * Partner with engineering teams to guide major refactors and platform migrations * Make pragmatic technical trade-offs that balance velocity, quality, and long-term maintainability Execution at Scale * Partner with product, engineering, and platform teams to execute technically complex projects * Make high-leverage architectural decisions under uncertainty, with clear trade-offs * Turn vague problems into clear technical strategies and execution plans Mentorship & Influence * Raise the technical bar through deep code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration * Mentor senior engineers and help grow future technical leaders * Influence engineering direction by being a trusted technical partner who ships high-quality systems ## Related Videos - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1519-empowering-thousands-of-developers-our-journey-to-an-internal-developer-platform) - [Stop using Node.js like in 2020! 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