Staff Software Engineer, User and Friends, Level 6
About The Position
Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles. We’re looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer to lead our Web Platform team at Snap Inc!. In this role, you will set the technical direction for web architecture across the company, defining how we build scalable, high-performance, and discoverable web experiences. You will act as a technical lead, mentoring senior engineers and partnering with infrastructure teams to ensure reliability for high-traffic pages. While this is a platform leadership role, deep experience designing large-scale web architectures that balance rich, client-side interactivity (UX) with server-side crawlability (SEO) is preferred. You understand the nuances of SSR (Server-Side Rendering), ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration), and Hydration strategies in Next.js/React to maximize both user performance and search indexation. What you’ll do: Architectural Leadership: Architect and lead the implementation of the core Web Platform using Next.js, React, Web Assembly, and TypeScript to power both logged-out and logged-in experiences at scale. Platform Strategy: Define the long-term technical roadmap for web infrastructure, including server-side rendering strategies, static site generation, and caching layers. SEO & Discoverability: Lead the strategy for technical SEO foundations—ensuring the platform natively supports optimal site architecture, crawlability, canonicalization, and structured data. Tooling & Efficiency: Build advanced tooling, automation, and template systems (e.g., content feeds, diagnostics dashboards) that enable other product teams to ship faster while maintaining high quality and performance standards. Performance Engineering: Drive initiatives to optimize Core Web Vitals, browser layout rendering, and JavaScript execution across the organization, identifying and resolving complex scalability issues. Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborate with data, growth, security, and infrastructure partners to design experimentation frameworks and build feedback loops into the core system. Mentorship: Mentor L5 and senior engineers, leading code reviews and technical design discussions to grow engineering expertise across the team.
Requirements
- Expert Full Stack Proficiency: Mastery of Javascript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, along with backend languages such as Java, Golang, NodeJs, or Python.
- Modern Web Architecture: Deep expertise in React and Next.js (or similar server-rendered frameworks) with a focus on component-based architectures and responsive design.
- System Design: Proven ability to design distributed systems and APIs for content retrieval, employing advanced caching, ranking, and routing strategies.
- Engineering Excellence: Champion of domain-driven design, functional programming principles, and rigorous testing methodologies (unit, integration, and end-to-end).
- Resilient UI: Experience writing code for user interface components that are resilient, reusable, and accessible.
- Optimization: Specific experience optimizing high-traffic applications for Core Web Vitals and resolving performance bottlenecks in both frontend and backend systems.
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience.
- 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience.
- Extensive experience with full stack web development and architecture.
- Experience leading technical projects or teams.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced Frontend Tech: Experience with WebGL, Canvas, WebAssembly, Service Workers, or other advanced front-end technology.
- Scale & Infrastructure: Experience with GraphQL, large-scale microservices, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud services (AWS/Google).
- Experience integrating machine learning-based systems for content classification or ranking.
- Passion for building rich, innovative user experiences and setting the standard for engineering quality.
Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership: Architect and lead the implementation of the core Web Platform using Next.js, React, Web Assembly, and TypeScript to power both logged-out and logged-in experiences at scale.
- Platform Strategy: Define the long-term technical roadmap for web infrastructure, including server-side rendering strategies, static site generation, and caching layers.
- SEO & Discoverability: Lead the strategy for technical SEO foundations—ensuring the platform natively supports optimal site architecture, crawlability, canonicalization, and structured data.
- Tooling & Efficiency: Build advanced tooling, automation, and template systems (e.g., content feeds, diagnostics dashboards) that enable other product teams to ship faster while maintaining high quality and performance standards.
- Performance Engineering: Drive initiatives to optimize Core Web Vitals, browser layout rendering, and JavaScript execution across the organization, identifying and resolving complex scalability issues.
- Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborate with data, growth, security, and infrastructure partners to design experimentation frameworks and build feedback loops into the core system.
- Mentorship: Mentor L5 and senior engineers, leading code reviews and technical design discussions to grow engineering expertise across the team.
Benefits
- Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back!
- We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms.
- Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
