Staff Software Engineer

<h1><strong>Staff Software Engineer - Platform</strong></h1> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Soho, NYC / Remote<br><strong>Department:</strong> Engineering</p> <h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help grow and build the core platform that powers our Flowcode 2 application at scale. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, leadership, and pragmatic execution with a focus on creating and augmenting reliable, scalable, and extensible services and applications.&nbsp;</p> <p>You’ll operate as a technical leader with in our Platform pod, growing platform capabilities, building new features and problem solving in a dynamic and challenging technical environment.. While this is a hands-on role, it requires a strong bias toward backend systems, distributed architecture and deep technical leadership. We value the ability to guide teams toward pragmatic, high-impact solutions.</p> <p>This role is ideal for an engineer who values simplicity, correctness, and pragmatism, and who can balance long-term platform investments with immediate business needs.</p> <h2>What You’ll Do</h2> <ul> <li>Own critical systems end-to-end, including design, implementation and deployment,</li> <li>Hands on designing, building, and maintaining scalable features across a modern front-end framework and backend services.</li> <li>Architect for growth — help drive your pods’s technical roadmap and shepherd established engineering best practices.</li> <li>Collaborate across teams with product, design, and data to deliver measure, deliver and grows features quickly and iteratively.</li> <li>Mentor and guide senior engineers, raising the bar for technical execution and system design across teams.</li> <li>Balance ideal engineering with the realities of speed, customer needs, and startup resource constraints.</li> <li>Drive improvements in observability, performance, and incident response</li> <li>Advocate for pragmatic solutions, solving the right problems with the appropriate level of complexity.<br><br></li> </ul> <h2>What We’re Looking For</h2> <ul> <li>8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems, with a strong backend focus.</li> <li>Deep expertise in building high-performance, concurrent services.</li> <li>Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.</li> <li>Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, and consistency tradeoffs Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern deployment patterns (Docker, Kubernetes).</li> <li>Proficiency in several modern backend language (e.g., Go, Python, C#,