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# Staff Software Engineer - Product-Agnostic Platform (Remote)

- **Company:** Oliver James
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, C++ (Programming Language), Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), TypeScript
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_2c7596ce402b0763364b6a4a5b994227

## About the Role

* Staff-level leadership: a proven track record operating at Staff Engineer level (or equivalent), driving complex initiatives across team boundaries. This role is not a step-up from Senior.
 * Production ownership: genuine experience owning and supporting systems that are deployed and running, not just building them.
 * Experience: 10+ years designing, building and operating production software systems.
 * Tech stack: hands-on experience with TypeScript, Python and C++ on AWS.
 * Communication: exceptional communication skills with strong executive presence, and comfort presenting technical ideas to senior, non-technical audiences., * Experience building multi-product or configurable platforms would be highly relevant.
 * Strong architecture experience across distributed systems, scalability, reliability and security.
 * Observability and monitoring experience, including metrics, logs, tracing, alerting and incident response.
 * Exposure to AI tooling and responsible AI practices., * A Staff Engineer who leads through judgement and collaboration rather than authority.
 * Someone who can translate business problems into technical strategy and explain trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
 * A pragmatic, practical approach to AI, focused on real business value rather than hype.
 * A genuine interest in developing other engineers and strengthening technical capability across teams.
 * Comfort working with ambiguity, breaking big problems into actionable plans with clear ownership.
 * No insurance background required. We're keen to hear from candidates outside the industry who bring a fresh perspective.

## Description

We're partnering with a leading insurance organization on their search for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of a product-agnostic platform, one that can support multiple products without a new platform being built each time.

This is a high-impact, individual contributor role with real technical leadership. You'll operate beyond the boundaries of a single team, setting architectural direction on an in-flight initiative to move from hard-coded, product-specific builds to a configurable, reusable platform. You'll stay hands-on, work closely with Product, Engineering Management and senior stakeholders, and help teams make sound, sustainable technical decisions., * Leading technical direction and architecture for the platform, and aligning teams around shared principles.

 * Driving complex, cross-team initiatives by breaking down ambiguous problems and coordinating dependencies.
 * Shaping the move from hard-coded, product-specific builds to a configurable, reusable platform.
 * Raising engineering standards across testing, observability, CI/CD and operational readiness.
 * Leading discovery and proofs of concept, including AI use cases, and taking validated ideas into production responsibly.
 * Mentoring Senior Engineers and strengthening technical capability across teams.
 * Representing engineering in roadmap and prioritisation discussions with Product, Engineering Management and senior stakeholders.
 * Staying hands-on by contributing code, prototypes and designs, and reviewing critical changes where it adds leverage.