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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Retire Sound, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Next.js, TypeScript, Cloudformation, Build Tools, NestJS, Terraform, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_30aa4f8ac85e4c15487e113d1a88d401

## About the Role

You will be expected to have strong technical, problem solving and organizational skills. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate systems design, project management, and mentorship skills as well., * Strong technical talent - you have deep experience building, deploying, monitoring and scaling modern serverless or container-based systems

 * A bias for action - you can move quickly and prefer to launch and gather early data over absolute perfection. You know when to hack a solution vs. build robust systems for the long term
 * Good product sense - you can weigh tradeoffs and suggest creative solutions to delivering the best overall product to our customers, even with resource and time constraints
 * Autonomous - You enjoy choosing what you work on and are responsible for maximizing your own impact, * High Impact - Ability to drive real impact and help build a company from the ground up, * Typescript
 * NodeJS frameworks NestJS and NextJS
 * Terraform and Cloudformation
 * Postgres and Redshift

## Description

* Architect and build systems from scratch, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability
 * Lead, build, test, and release products with stringent correctness and scalability requirements. These products include personal finance scenario builders, tax calculators, and more
 * Tackle complex integrations within the personal finance space to enable smooth customer experiences and accurate financial reporting
 * You'll shape the product strategy and tech organization: you'll have significant input into our product development process - this includes helping to scope what we are building and how we are building it to optimize for both speed and elegant user experience