Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Role overview A small product team is hiring a senior or staff-level software engineer to evolve a marketplace advertising and retail platform into indispensable software for advertisers and retailers. The role leans backend-first across the web stack, blends hands-on feature delivery with architectural stewardship, and is scoped for a product-minded builder who thrives in ambiguity and ships quickly without sacrificing craftsmanship. Level will be calibrated to experience, demonstrated scope, and expected impact.

Responsibilities - Own and ship marketplace features end to end, translating advertiser, retailer, and internal business needs into production software. - Work backend-first across Go services, GCP, Postgres, Redis, and BigQuery, contributing to the Angular frontend when needed. - Partner closely with a product manager, designer, and long-tenured backend contractor to convert ambiguity into clear decisions and shipped work. - Evolve a conventional API-and-database backend toward more scalable async workflows, queues, concurrency, intelligent caching, and clearer service boundaries, without prematurely forcing microservices. - Strengthen branch protections, branch naming, CI/CD consistency, automated integration testing, observability, and performance dashboards. - Own integrations, data pipelines, infrastructure, and internal tooling, debug cross-system failures, and apply AI-assisted engineering workflows with review gates and verification.

Requirements - Track record of independently building and shipping a meaningful production software product in a small, ambiguous environment. - Demonstrated success raising the engineering quality of an existing production codebase while continuing to ship features. - High ownership, bias to action, strong product judgment and user empathy, technical curiosity, and a willingness to speak up. - Comfort working backend-first with Go services on GCP and SQL data stores such as Postgres or BigQuery, plus willingness to contribute in TypeScript and Angular. - AI-native workflow: routinely delegates implementation to coding agents and builds verification loops that produce sound outcomes. - Pragmatic speed-versus-quality judgment, raising standards without using perfection as a reason to stop shipping.

Nice to have - Experience moving a monolith or simple API-and-database architecture toward asynchronous, queued, and more clearly bounded services. - Familiarity with Redis for caching and concurrency patterns. - Background in advertising, retail media, marketplaces, or other two-sided product contexts.

Benefits and work setup - Competitive compensation package with base salary and stock options, including cash/equity flexibility. - Employee coverage for health, dental, and vision (gold-tier plan). - Unlimited paid time off with a three-week minimum. - Flexible office setup (in-office, flex, or remote work from home), with associated stipends. - Craftsmanship stipend, paid parental leave, and a 401(k) plan. - Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.