Staff Software Engineer

Encamp•Indianapolis, IN

40d•$185,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll work directly with the CTO transforming what a small engineering organization can accomplish - operating at the intersection of architecture, execution, and culture. You’ll lead technical direction in high-gravity areas like data design, systems design, and API design. You’ll own thorny technical problems end-to-end - distributed systems that span the breadth of the product and interact with processes in the real world. You’ll make these systems reliable, performant, and operate them at scale. Much of that work happens in a TypeScript-heavy stack across React and Vite on the frontend, GraphQL and Node on the backend, Prisma and Postgres in the data layer, and AWS services like Lambda and ECS in production. Staff Software Engineers set the standard for how we build - through the quality of your work, the clarity of your communication, and your willingness to bring others along. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role on a small team.

Requirements

You’ve designed and shipped complex software systems and can reason clearly about tradeoffs
You can take a high-stakes, ambiguous problem from framing through shipped solution
You’ve operated systems in production and know how to improve them over time rather than treating shipping as the finish line
You’re actively adapting your workflow to make good use of AI tools while maintaining a high quality bar
You make other engineers better through communication, technical judgment, and the quality of your work
You operate from first principles and frame your decisions and communication based on clearly articulated technical reasoning rather than relying on hierarchy or authority
You show humility in technical discussions, and you’re confident in your expertise and honest about its limits

Responsibilities

Architect and build systems spanning distributed systems, data design, and public APIs
Build customer-facing features with a broad mandate end-to-end
Work on agent-powered automation and our agency integrations layer
Shape engineering practices around AI-native development: tooling, workflows, review processes, codebase design that is legible to both humans and AI
Own technical decisions with broad impact and communicate the reasoning behind them, educating and empowering your colleagues along the way
Drive cross-cutting technical initiatives like performance, reliability, developer experience, and architecture evolution
Mentor and elevate other engineers through pairing, walkthroughs, and software design
Work directly with the CTO on high-value problems and long-term technical strategy