Staff Software Engineer

Role overview This Staff Engineer position is part of a small, remote-first team building a distributed rendering platform that helps dynamic, JavaScript-heavy websites become crawlable and indexable by search engines at scale. The role combines hands-on contribution with architectural leadership and coaching, shaping technical direction across systems and squads.

Responsibilities - Contribute directly to core systems while modelling high standards in code quality, testing, and design. - Drive cross-team architectural initiatives that move systems toward simplicity, scalability, and testability. - Coach and mentor engineers at all levels through pairing, design reviews, and hands-on guidance in extreme programming practices. - Design solutions to deep technical challenges in performance, reliability, and distributed rendering. - Spot risks early, resolve systemic bottlenecks, and establish defaults that let teams move quickly and confidently. - Champion sustainable practices such as TDD, pair programming, and continuous delivery to balance speed and stability. - Partner with product and leadership to align short-term delivery with long-term technical health.

Requirements - Ten or more years designing and shipping complex, distributed systems. - Track record leading large-scale technical initiatives that simplified and strengthened core systems. - Deep expertise in modern backend development, ideally TypeScript/Node.js or Golang, with familiarity in AWS and cloud-native infrastructure. - Systems-thinking ability that connects product goals with technical architecture. - Coaching mindset, strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences, and a bias for continuous improvement.

Nice to have - Experience in SEO, web performance, or large-scale rendering infrastructure.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote with flexible time off and autonomy in how problems are solved. - High-trust, small, friendly team culture with global colleagues across many countries. - Access to an internal network of SaaS professionals for knowledge sharing and collaboration. - Location-adjusted, transparent pay ranges shared in writing before the first interview.