Senior Staff Software Engineer

Why You’ll Love This Role

Lead high-impact initiatives that shape how millions of people experience work around the world.

Bring your unique perspective to complex and challenging projects - apply your expertise in architecture, influence technical direction, and mentor fellow team members.

Join a close-knit, no-ego, high-performing team that solves meaningful problems and celebrates successes together.

Work alongside an experienced leadership team who is genuinely invested in your career growth.

Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where innovation is encouraged and your voice truly matters.

How you'll shape our Marketplace:

Technical Leadership: shape and implement Engineering best practices, standards, and guidelines for coding, testing, and infrastructure across multiple teams. Lead and initiate engineering improvements and code reviews.

Product Development: design, build, and maintain innovative product features that enhance the Achievers platform - the most-used platform in the industry impacting 4+ million users in 170 countries worldwide.

Continuous Delivery: ship code multiple times a day, enabling continuous improvement and rapid delivery of new features. Take full ownership of features or modules from design through deployment, ensuring the quality and reliability of the codebase. 

Technology Selection: utilize a wide range of modern tools and technologies, including Python, Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Drone, Google Pub/Sub, React/Redux, GraphQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microservices, to solve complex challenges.

Lead and Mentor: provide guidance and mentorship to a team of software developers with varying experience levels, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement.

Cross-functional collaboration: work closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to define requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Actively participate in cross-functional planning sessions to align on priorities and dependencies. 

Learning and Growth: continuously learn and stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and Engineering practices to bring fresh perspectives and ideas to the team. 

Experience we feel will set you up for success:

Strong understanding of e-commerce platforms and domains (checkout, payments, catalog, pricing, promotions, order management)

Expertise in leading back-end or full-stack projects with a strong focus on the back-end in a Senior Staff capacity. Top-notch programming skills specifically in Python or Go are advantageous

Proven ability to own and evolve system architecture across multiple teams, delivering complex solutions in a SaaS environment

Experience making long-term technical decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and developer velocity

Ability to identify and reduce technical debt while enabling new product capabilities

Strong systems thinking with experience designing for high traffic, high availability, and peak events (e.g., sales, promotions, holidays)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

A collaborative approach to stakeholder management and cross-functional partnerships.

Prior experience with coaching and mentoring Engineering teams.

Strong understanding of microservices architecture.

Expertise with technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science or related field.