Senior Engineer, Platform Services

Stord

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About The Position

Stord is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer, Platform Services to own and drive the technical vision for shared services such as authentication and authorization, eventing and messaging, API gateways, and shared libraries. This role is crucial for enabling Stord's long-term goal of product unification through a composable marketplace of capabilities. You will work closely with the Principal Engineering Group to translate architectural direction into working software, establish ownership patterns for shared services, and ensure seamless integration for product teams. The ideal candidate is smart, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity, and thrives on solving complex problems with autonomy. This is a hands-on building role focused on creating product-grade services that empower other engineering teams at Stord.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of: Elixir or TypeScript.
• Willingness and demonstrated ability to learn the other quickly.
• Experience designing, building, and operating shared services or platform capabilities consumed by other engineering teams.
• Track record of taking ownership of ambiguously-scoped technical problems and driving them to resolution.
• Comfort working across multiple codebases and navigating unfamiliar systems.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: service contracts, event-driven architectures, API design, and failure modes.
• Clear technical communication—ability to write effective design documents and explain trade-offs to varied audience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with authentication/authorization systems (OAuth, OIDC, RBAC/ABAC patterns).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems at scale.
• Familiarity with GCP services or Terraform (our SRE team owns this layer, but exposure helps).
• Experience in logistics, supply chain, or commerce domains.
• History of working in high-growth environments with rapid organizational scaling.
• Experience with M&A integration—consolidating acquired systems into a unified platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and operational health of shared services including authentication/authorization, eventing/messaging, API gateways, and shared libraries.
• Establish clear service contracts, SLOs, and integration patterns that product teams can rely on.
• Drive these services from their current state of distributed, informal ownership to well-defined, productized capabilities.
• Maintain and improve service documentation, onboarding guides, and self-service tooling for consuming teams.
• Translate architectural direction from the Principal Engineering Group into production-quality implementations.
• Build reference implementations that demonstrate how product teams should integrate with shared services.
• Identify and resolve technical debt in shared services that slows product team velocity.
• Contribute to Technical Design Documents and participate in architectural reviews.
• Write clean, well-tested, production-ready code.
• Contribute to the technical strategy for unifying Stord’s product suite into a composable marketplace of services.
• Identify opportunities to extract common capabilities from product-specific implementations into shared services.
• Ensure shared services support multi-product integration scenarios cleanly, particularly as acquired products are consolidated.
• Act as the go-to technical resource for product teams integrating with platform services.
• Proactively identify friction points in how product teams consume shared services and drive improvements.
• Collaborate with SRE on infrastructure concerns that affect shared service reliability.
• Contribute to developer experience initiatives where they intersect with platform service adoption.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Value diversity at our company
• Do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• Participates in E-verify

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed