Staff Full Stack Software Engineer
Staff Full Stack Software Engineer
Posted 6 days ago
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
- Own cross-team technical strategy for major platform areas — setting direction on architecture, reliability, and scalability, not just within your squad but across engineering
- Lead complex, multi-quarter infrastructure and architectural initiatives from design through delivery, coordinating dependencies across teams
- Define and champion engineering standards and patterns that make the codebase more flexible, scalable, and maintainable for all engineers
- Partner closely with Product, Policy, and Technical Account Management to shape roadmap decisions with strong technical and product perspective
- Identify and resolve systemic risks — including security, HIPAA compliance, performance bottlenecks, and incident response — before they become problems
- Raise the technical ceiling for the whole engineering org through code review, design critique, and modeling excellent judgment
- Proactively leverage AI and modern tooling to drive higher output quality and team efficiency
- Sample Projects
- Architect a reusable, configurable platform layer for scheduling and application requirements that scales across dozens of distinct agency workflows nationwide
- Design the data model and engineering plan for representing complex, non-biological human relationships across the platform
- Lead the cross-team technical design for transferring applications between agencies with variable permission and workflow configurations
- Spearhead development of new product areas like child intake and community crisis response, defining the engineering foundation others build onWhat We're Looking ForDemonstrated track record leading large-scale infrastructure and architectural projects across multiple teams or systems
- Ability to set technical direction, not just execute on it — including navigating ambiguity, making principled trade-offs, and bringing others along
- Deep experience building and maintaining configurable, enterprise-grade systems; government-facing software experience is a strong plus
- Product orientation — you think about user impact and business outcomes, not just technical elegance
- Excellent communication skills: you can distill complex technical decisions for product, engineering, and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience mentoring and elevating senior engineers, and a genuine investment in team culture
- Fluency applying AI tools in your own workflow and excitement about building AI-powered product features
- An above-market compensation package (salary + equity)
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance - 99% of insurance premiums covered for you + your dependents
- Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend13 paid holidays; 11 federally observed holidays (including Juneteenth), plus Election Day and the day after Thanksgiving16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for the arrival of a newborn or newly placed infant
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