Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead - Planning)

Jobgether

2d • $180,000 - $220,000 • Remote

About The Position

This role offers the opportunity to take technical leadership of a critical product domain focused on planning and organizational intelligence. You will design and scale backend-heavy systems that support complex planning workflows used by large organizations, helping transform how teams model scenarios, manage workforce data, and make strategic decisions. Working within a small and agile engineering group, you will collaborate closely with senior technical leadership and product stakeholders to shape architectural direction and deliver impactful features. The role blends hands-on development with technical strategy, offering ownership of performance, reliability, and scalability across a growing platform. It is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex system challenges, improving legacy codebases incrementally, and building tools with real business impact.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems in production environments.
• Strong experience maintaining and improving large or monolithic codebases through incremental change.
• Proven ability to make sound technical tradeoffs balancing delivery speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience collaborating closely with product managers and business stakeholders to deliver impactful features.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and decisions clearly.
• Comfort contributing across the stack when necessary, including frontend work.
• Curiosity, pragmatism, and the ability to quickly learn new domains and technologies.
• Interest in working within a highly collaborative, fast-moving remote engineering environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with technologies such as Kotlin, TypeScript, React, MongoDB, or AWS is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend-focused features within a mature and evolving codebase.
• Take ownership of the technical health of a core product domain, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to align architectural vision with product goals and translate concepts into practical solutions.
• Break down product initiatives into structured technical plans and guide execution within the engineering team.
• Improve data models and system behavior to support scaling customers and increasingly complex planning scenarios.
• Balance feature development with targeted refactoring and operational improvements to reduce technical debt.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to improving observability, monitoring, and incident response processes.
• Work closely with product and engineering peers to ensure the broader platform remains cohesive and maintainable.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ($180,000–$220,000) plus bonus and equity opportunities.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Mental health support through wellness platforms and resources.
• Flexible time-off policy and 13 public holidays.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• Parental leave benefits.
• Fully remote work environment across U.S. time zones with a culture that supports deep focus and asynchronous collaboration.

What This Job Offers

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