Staff Engineer (Full Stack)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Own reliability outcomes across critical backend services and their integration with mobile clients (React Native).
• - Lead technical problem-solving during incidents: coordinate response, diagnose root causes, communicate status, and drive to resolution.
• - Build and evolve monitoring/observability (dashboards, alerts, tracing, logging) that enables fast detection and diagnosis.
• - Drive post‑incident reviews (blameless) and ensure learnings become durable fixes (tech changes, runbooks, automation, process updates).
• - Improve engineering safety and quality: guardrails, safer migrations, feature-flag practices, rollout strategies, and resilience patterns.
• - Partner with product, design, QA, and engineering early to align delivery plans with operational risk and reliability needs.
• - Strengthen documentation and onboarding: architecture notes, runbooks, service ownership docs, and “how we work” guides.
• - Mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, incident shadowing, and pragmatic coaching on production ownership.

Required Skills

• - Significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale, including debugging distributed systems and performance issues.
• - Strong TypeScript/Node.js (or equivalent) backend experience; comfort working across services and APIs.
• - Proven incident response leadership: on-call participation, triage, mitigation, and root-cause analysis (RCA) with follow-through.
• - Solid observability skills: practical experience with logging/metrics/tracing and turning signals into actionable alerts and dashboards.
• - Experience collaborating with mobile teams and understanding mobile↔backend integration concerns (e.g., API compatibility, releases, feature flags).
• - Demonstrated Staff-level IC leadership: influence through design reviews, technical direction, documentation, and cross-team alignment.

Benefits

• - Flexible working hours
• - Unlimited paid time off
• - A fully remote working situation
• - Home office budget
• - Learning & development budget
• - On demand therapy sessions and mental health support via Spill
• - In-person meet ups