Senior Staff /Staff Software Engineer

Campus • New York, NY

1d • $210,000 - $280,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Campus is seeking a Senior Staff or Staff Software Engineer to tackle significant technical challenges. This role offers the opportunity to lead technical direction, solve cross-platform problems, build foundational engineering systems, or take ambiguous company priorities from concept to production. As part of a small engineering organization, this is a hands-on role involving writing code, influencing architecture, and shaping engineering practices as the company scales. The ideal candidate will demonstrate ownership, bring clarity to ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, and empower other engineers.

Requirements

• A track record of owning complex software systems or product initiatives with meaningful technical and business impact.
• Deep software engineering fundamentals and the ability to move comfortably between architecture and implementation.
• Experience taking ambiguous problems, creating technical clarity, and driving them through execution.
• Strong judgment about when to build for the future and when the simplest solution is the right one.
• Experience influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate codebase or team.
• A history of making other engineers more effective through mentorship, technical leadership, tooling, architecture, or improved engineering practices.
• The ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering and non-engineering partners.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where ownership is high and organizational boundaries are intentionally lightweight.
• Curiosity about how AI is changing software development and a desire to use these tools thoughtfully in your own engineering workflow.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring new H-1B sponsorship. H-1B transfers and TN visas for eligible Canadian and Mexican citizens are supported.

Responsibilities

• Own technically complex, high-impact problems from ambiguity through production and iteration.
• Work across the stack and across product areas rather than being constrained to a narrow technical domain.
• Shape architecture and technical direction while remaining deeply involved in implementation.
• Partner closely with product, design, operations, and company leadership to determine what we should build and how.
• Identify technical investments that create leverage for other engineers and product teams.
• Raise the quality of engineering decisions through design, code review, mentorship, and technical leadership.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, simplicity, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Use modern AI tools to increase your own engineering leverage and help shape how we build software in an AI-native development environment.
• Help evolve our engineering practices and technical foundations as the team and product scale.

Benefits

• Base salary of $210-240k for Staff Engineers or $255-280k for Senior Staff Engineers + equity grant
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) match
• Fertility benefits via Carrot
• Flexible Time Away + paid holidays
• In-office lunches for our NY Office
• Dog friendly office
• Social events - happy hours, birthday celebrations, holiday parties, & more!
• Opportunity to make an impact

What This Job Offers

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