Senior Staff Software Engineer

nue.io • Toronto, ON

2d

About The Position

The Senior Staff Software Engineer is one of Nue's senior-most individual contributors, responsible for shaping the technical direction of the platform across multiple product teams. This role sets the multi-year technical strategy in their domain, drives the architecture decisions that other teams build on, and operates as a force multiplier for engineering — through code, design, mentorship, and judgment. The Senior Staff is the engineer leadership turns to when the stakes are highest: a critical architectural pivot, a platform decision that will shape the next two years of velocity. They lead through technical excellence, deep system understanding, and a track record of consistently making the right call.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a sustained track record of operating at Staff level or higher in a high-bar engineering org.
• Demonstrated track record of designing and shipping foundational systems used by multiple teams — services, frameworks, data infrastructure, or shared platforms.
• Deep expertise in at least one modern backend stack (Java/Spring, Node/TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar) with strong fluency in at least one more, plus the design judgment to know when each fits.
• Strong systems-design ability: distributed systems, data modeling, consistency trade-offs, performance, scaling, and reliability — proven on systems with significant production load.
• Hands-on production expertise across cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus / Grafana, or equivalent).
• Strong fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) and a track record of materially accelerating both your own work and your team's through them.
• Demonstrated track record of leading a team or org through a significant architectural transition (HA migration, language/framework move, multi-region, monolith → services).
• Track record of mentoring senior and staff engineers; multiple engineers will say you were materially responsible for their growth.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfort defending technical positions in front of executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year technical direction: Define the technical roadmap for a major platform area (e.g., lifecycle management, billing, integrations, data platform) across multiple teams and quarters. Make build-vs-buy and platform-vs-feature trade-offs at the company level, with clear written rationale. Sequence the technical investments that unblock the company's largest customers and the next two years of growth. Bring a strong, well-reasoned point of view to architecture reviews — and the credibility to push back on leadership when the data warrants it.
• Architect systems other teams build on: Design and lead the implementation of foundational systems — distributed services, data flows, APIs, integrations, and shared libraries — that span product teams. Lead non-trivial migrations and modernizations: HA upgrades, language/framework moves, monolith decompositions, schema changes, multi-region rollouts. Set the technical standards for service ownership, API contracts, observability, and reliability that every team adopts. Own the architecture of one or more business-critical flows end-to-end (e.g., quote-to-cash, billing, sync).
• Ship code that matters: Stay deeply hands-on. Lead the implementation of the highest-leverage and highest-risk projects yourself. Write code that becomes the reference example for what "good" looks like at Nue. Pair with senior and staff engineers on the hardest problems; unblock teams stuck on technical depth.
• Drive customer outcomes through engineering: Be the technical owner for the engineering work that unblocks Nue's largest customers. Convert ambiguous customer asks into bounded engineering work with clear scope, owners, and dates. Be on the call when production is on fire for a strategic customer — and be the senior-most engineer making the call to roll forward, roll back, or escalate.
• Coach and mentor other engineers: Mentor and develop Staff and Senior engineers across the company. Help two or three of them grow into Staff or Senior Staff over the course of the year. Embed deep technical thinking into design reviews, code reviews, and engineering planning across product teams — not just your own. Build internal tools, shared libraries, and AI-assisted workflows that let every engineer ship faster. Champion engineering excellence: testing, observability, security, performance, and operational maturity.
• Drive engineering excellence at the org level: Help define the engineering standards the org operates against — testing strategy, observability bar, security posture, dev productivity, code review norms. Partner with engineering managers, the CTO, and product leadership to translate strategy into engineering execution. Champion AI-assisted engineering as a first-class capability — prompt libraries, agents, and internal tooling that compound the team's leverage. Raise the bar in hiring: act as a bar-raiser, calibrate levels, and grow the senior IC pipeline.
• Be the company's senior technical voice: Represent Nue's engineering org in critical customer conversations, vendor evaluations, and partner integrations where deep technical credibility is required. Contribute to public engineering presence where it serves the company — talks, posts, OSS — without losing focus on internal impact.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits that reward your talent and impact.
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• A front-row seat in the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem, where you’ll work on cutting-edge challenges shaping the future of SaaS, finance, and payments.
• The opportunity to build truly groundbreaking products — your work won’t just support the business; it will influence how companies around the world monetize and grow.
• A high-energy, collaborative culture where smart, supportive teammates push each other to learn fast, think boldly, and do the best work of their careers.
• Room to grow, lead, and make your mark in a fast-scaling company that values creativity, ownership, and ambition.

What This Job Offers

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