Staff Backend Software Engineer

Feathr•Gainesville, FL

1d•$165,000 - $180,000•Remote

About The Position

Feathr's SaaS platform is a critical component of the value we deliver to our clients. As a Staff Engineer, you shape the technical direction of the systems that meet the advertising, marketing, and analytics needs of our diverse customer base. In practice, you own one or more product areas. You identify the technical problems and opportunities in your areas, shape the solutions the team commits to, and build the most challenging parts yourself. The team decides what to build, and you supply the technical judgment behind those decisions. You work across the full stack, from Python services on the backend to React and TypeScript interfaces on the frontend. Engineers come to you when a problem has no established answer. This is an individual contributor role: you deliver primarily through the work you scope and build yourself.

Requirements

8+ years building software that runs in production.
Expert skill in backend development.
Experience with Python and Flask-style APIs, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis on the backend.
Experience scoping and shipping distributed systems that use queues, caches, and search.
Experience running software on AWS and Kubernetes at production scale.
Experience scoping solutions that other engineers built successfully.
Experience mentoring engineers and helping them advance to larger roles.
Ability to write clearly; technical scopes and decisions are easy to follow.
Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines.
Consideration of security in scoped solutions.

Responsibilities

Own one or more product areas, identifying technical problems and opportunities.
Shape solutions the team commits to and build the most challenging parts.
Provide technical judgment for team decisions.
Work across the full stack, including Python services and React/TypeScript interfaces.
Address complex problems that lack established answers.
Deliver primarily through self-scoped and self-built work.
Own the technical solutions for bets in product areas, including scope and tradeoffs.
Build the hardest technical work on the board.
Own quality standards for areas, including code review and testing strategy.
Own shipped work until the bet closes at outcome confirmed, including monitoring, debugging, and fixes for about 30 days post-launch.
Advise on feasibility, cost, and risk of bets during discovery.
Advise on how teams break bets into work items matching technical scope.
Advise on architecture, long-term technology choices, major changes to shared systems, and cross-pod standards.
Advise on engineering hiring.
Create technical scopes for bets in product areas, including options, chosen approach, and tradeoffs.
Create prototypes that retire feasibility risk before production code is written.
Build working software, including the most challenging pieces in product areas.
Create standards, templates, and examples for other engineers to reuse.
Create upgrade and migration plans for owned systems.