Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

• →Design and build high-quality backend services while collaborating with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration across the stack.
• →Raise the bar on engineering excellence by improving standard methodologies, producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring.
• →Collaborate with product and R&D engineers to translate product requirements into robust technical solutions.
• →Identify and resolve technical issues and performance bottlenecks within the backend systems.
• →Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve our backend services and overall application performance.
• →Be a mentor to colleagues and help promote knowledge sharing within the team.

• Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining complex, enterprise-grade distributed systems in high-growth environments.
• Backend Expertise: 6+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing backend services using Node.js and modern TypeScript.
• Frontend Knowledge: Proven working familiarity with modern frontend frameworks, specifically React, enabling seamless collaboration and full-stack ownership.
• Architectural Mastery: Deep knowledge of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, asynchronous event-driven design, and data persistence patterns.
• Database & Storage Systems: Practical experience working with relational databases as well as NoSQL/caching stores.
• System Principles: Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and scalable software design patterns.
• Collaboration & Mindset: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, paired with strong communication abilities to collaborate across distributed, global engineering teams.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).

• Frameworks such as NestJS or similar enterprise-grade Node.js server frameworks.
• Modern cloud platforms (particularly AWS) and container orchestration.
• Identity and security domains (IAM, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, posture management, threat detection, or cloud security).
  
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