Staff Software Engineer

Slate Auto•Remote WA, WA

10d•$171,191 - $285,319

About The Position

Slate is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical design of key systems across its digital platform. The platform connects customers to Slate throughout their journey, from discovering and customizing a vehicle to managing ownership. The role designs and evolves major systems and components, aligns technical direction across teams, and makes decisions that shape the customer experience. The engineer is expected to work effectively amid ambiguity, make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information, and balance rapid delivery with long-term technical quality. The position provides technical leadership across major, multi-team systems and initiatives, from architecture and implementation through delivery. It includes coding and testing, ownership of code quality and system integration, leading reviews, mentoring engineers, and helping shape company technical objectives. The role also collaborates with UX and product teams to develop customer-focused solutions. Applicants must be authorized to work permanently in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available. The stated annual base pay range is $171,191 to $285,319. Slate offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, vacation, and a 401(k). The successful candidate may also be eligible for an equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to applicable program rules.

Requirements

10 or more years of professional software development experience building and operating scalable, customer-facing software systems.
Technical leadership experience, including architecture design, complex trade-off decisions, and driving engineering decisions across teams.
Experience designing and building reliable, scalable distributed systems, including web services, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
Ability to work through ambiguity, simplify complex problems, and deliver high-quality solutions in fast-paced environments.
Experience integrating third-party platforms and SaaS products through APIs, events, and webhooks.
Must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis; visa sponsorship is unavailable.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ecommerce or marketplace systems, such as catalog, checkout, payments, or order management.
Experience building high-performance customer experiences, including frontend performance optimization.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of major systems and initiatives spanning multiple teams.
Code and test system components; lead code and design reviews and bring significant designs to technical committee review.
Own code quality, system tests, functional tests, and integration for developed systems and their interfaces.
Simplify significant, ambiguous problems through creativity and sound judgment.
Collaborate with UX and product teams to build and invent customer-first solutions.
Serve as a recognized technical authority and advise across groups on difficult trade-off decisions.
Help shape company technical objectives and build networks across groups to align on direction.
Act independently on new and special assignments, guide others' work, and mentor engineers.