Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer role focusing on Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and PHP with AWS, OAuth2/JWT, and AI-assisted development using Cursor.

Responsibilities

• Own microservices architecture by defining service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and integration patterns to support scalable product growth.
• Translate customer requirements into product capabilities by partnering with Product and stakeholders to clarify needs, define scope, craft technical approaches, and deliver incrementally.
• Provide technical and thought leadership across teams; establish architecture standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers, customers, and engineering teams to solve complex problems and drive outcomes.
• Build and maintain services using Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and PHP, plus SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Design and implement extensible REST APIs and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization using OAuth2 and JWT based access tokens.
• Build and operate cloud-native solutions on AWS with production-grade reliability, security, and observability.
• Drive CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automated testing practices across services.
• Lead technical planning, decomposition, and delivery across multiple workstreams; ensure quality, performance, and operability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, architecture reviews, and coaching.
• Analyze cloud cost drivers, forecast impacts, and incorporate cost awareness into architecture decisions.
• Establish and improve operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• 8+ years in architecture and system design, including reliability and scaling.
• Significant production microservices architecture experience: domain driven service modeling, API versioning, backward compatibility.
• Significant production microservices architecture experience: resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers) and distributed tracing.
• Significant production microservices architecture experience: data ownership and consistency strategies (sagas, outbox, eventual consistency).
• Proven ability to translate customer requirements into product: discovery/clarification, technical scoping, tradeoff decisions, iterative delivery.
• Proven ability to collaborate with Product, UX, and customer-facing teams to translate needs into capabilities.
• Strong proficiency in at least two of Node.js/TypeScript, Python, PHP, with ability to work across all four as needed.
• 4+ years of cloud experience with strong preference for AWS (IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases; designing data models and service-owned persistence.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS preferred where applicable).
• Experience with OAuth2 and JWT, and modern service authentication/authorization practices.
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and engineering best practices.
• Expert-level proficiency with Cursor or comparable AI coding tools (prompting, refactoring, test generation, debugging, safe-use discipline).
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Technologies

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Python
• PHP
• SQL
• NoSQL
• OAuth2
• JWT
• Cursor
• AWS
• IAM
• VPC
• ECS
• EKS
• Lambda
• RDS
• DynamoDB
• S3
• CloudWatch
• REST APIs
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• CDK

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Prescription drug insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Snacks provided
• Vision insurance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with event driven architectures (SNS/SQS/Kinesis/Kafka) and distributed systems.
• Strong observability experience (metrics, logs, traces) and production operations ownership.
• Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or developer productivity tooling.
• Publications or speaking history in credible conferences or journals (optional).

Work Location

Hybrid remote in Round Rock, TX 78664

Pay

$130,000 - $160,000 per year