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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Nova Credit
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Architectural Patterns, Code Review, Software Engineering
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_5197e6456b56c680e2f538d2dc5665c2

## About the Role

* 10+ years of relevant experience, including high-growth or early-stage startups.
 * Deep fluency in modern software technologies and architectural patterns, with the ability to quickly learn and ramp into our tech stack.
 * A visionary and adaptive leader, adept at defining clarity and driving solutions through highly complex and ambiguous challenges in a rapidly evolving, fast-paced environment.
 * Exceptional collaborator, able to effectively influence and communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.

## Description

* Architecting and building enterprise-grade APIs and establishing patterns for platform-level features (web and mobile).
 * Pioneering and launching new, complex integrations with critical data suppliers.
 * Shaping the strategic direction and overseeing the end-to-end productionization of complex data models to deploy mission-critical attributes and scores across our platform.
 * Defining and evolving core platform architecture to support multiple product use cases and ensure long-term scalability.

In the First Month, You'll

 * Land your "new hire" ticket in the first week and directly contribute to at least one high-impact roadmap feature.
 * Thoroughly understand our software development lifecycle and overarching technical strategy.
 * Quickly grasp our business model, product offerings, and customer value proposition, and understand their strategic implications for engineering.
 * Build rapport with the team and key stakeholders, understanding our working style, mission, and core values.

In the First Quarter, You'll

 * Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, delivering with speed and end-to-end ownership, often navigating ambiguity.
 * Actively shape and make profound contributions across team norms (e.g., refining project plans, elevating code review standards, optimizing QA processes, improving on-call rotations).
 * Forge strong collaborative relationships across engineering, product, design, data science, and other partner teams to drive cohesive development of complex projects.
 * Deepen knowledge of critical product artifacts and proactively identify significant opportunities for architectural or systemic improvement.
 * Develop a clear understanding of how engineering strategically impacts our business and product roadmap at a macro level.

In the First Year, You'll

 * Lead highly complex initiatives end-to-end, translating significant ambiguity into clear, actionable milestones to achieve both short and long-term organizational goals.
 * Influence and implement our company's technical roadmap and strategic direction in close partnership with engineering and product leadership.
 * Establish critical best practices, drive long-term technical vision, and advocate for architectural shifts to simplify and scale our entire product platform.
 * Become a recognized subject matter expert across product verticals and foundational systems, adept at translating broad product requirements into impactful technical strategies.
 * Significantly strengthen our engineering culture by championing open dialogue and feedback, and providing instrumental mentorship to uplift overall technical acumen.