Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Transparent Search Group • San Francisco, CA

7d • $225,000 - $300,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for engineers who have owned real systems end-to-end — built them, scaled them, fixed them when they broke, and lived with the consequences. If you need: perfect specs heavy process a management path or a soft landing t his is not the role. The Work Youll own mission-critical product and payments-adjacent systems that move real money and sit directly on customer trust. This is a small, senior engineering org where: Ownership is obvious decisions stick shortcuts get paid back with interest What Youll Be Trusted With Leading ambiguous, high-stakes initiatives from design production iteration Building and owning full-stack product surfaces (frontend + backend) Designing APIs and services tied to real financial workflows Making hard tradeoffs between speed, correctness, and scale Working directly with product, growth, and customer stakeholders Mentoring by example — no org charts, no theatre Leaving systems materially better than you found them

Requirements

• 6–15 years of professional engineering experience
• Proven Staff-level ownership of real systems (not just influence)
• Strong full-stack capability
• Hands-on React or Ruby on Rails experience (at least one)
• Background in B2B SaaS, fintech, marketplace, or payments-adjacent products
• Experience shipping and operating production software used by real customers
• Comfort operating without perfect information

Nice To Haves

• Early or growth-stage startup experience
• Built something, lived with it, improved it
• Product-minded engineers who care about outcomes, not abstractions
• Experience working close to customers, partners, or revenue

Responsibilities

• Leading ambiguous, high-stakes initiatives from design production iteration
• Building and owning full-stack product surfaces (frontend + backend)
• Designing APIs and services tied to real financial workflows
• Making hard tradeoffs between speed, correctness, and scale
• Working directly with product, growth, and customer stakeholders
• Mentoring by example — no org charts, no theatre
• Leaving systems materially better than you found them

What This Job Offers

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