Staff Software Engineer

Casca • San Francisco, CA

4d • $185,000 - $255,000

About The Position

Casca is building AGI for banking, replacing legacy systems with AI-native technology that automates manual work. This role involves a significant contribution to coding while also collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring team members. The engineer will drive architectural decisions, lead complex initiatives, and optimize for value by building SaaS applications that balance complexity, quality, and speed of delivery. They will also be responsible for elevating standards by fine-tuning controls and communication channels to improve predictability and system reliability, using data to prioritize work.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering significant projects in fast-paced, production SaaS environments.
• Holistic understanding of web architectures and comfortable navigating a broad system.
• Thrive in high-velocity environments and comfortable making decisions under pressure.
• Understand that a perfect architecture is useless if it doesn't ship, and know how to manage trade-offs to maintain momentum.
• Quality-first mentality, but with a bias for action.
• Can quickly identify the trade-offs between "doing it right" and "doing it now," and know when to pull which lever.
• Deep expertise in modern programming languages and web application frameworks.
• Strong competence in data modeling for relational databases and distributed cloud platforms.
• Instinctively design for security, reliability and compliance without slowing down execution.
• Can take a high-level business goal and independently drive it to a technical solution, navigating ambiguity and minimizing churn along the way.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in regulated industries (like Fintech or Healthcare).

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural decisions that support long-term stability while maintaining the pace required by a fast-growing banking platform.
• Identify critical paths and make high-stakes technical calls to keep the organization moving efficiently.
• Ship individually while unblocking the wider team.
• Lead the development of complex initiatives by chunking and sequencing work to maximize parallelization.
• Maintain high throughput and ensure features reach production without unnecessary delays.
• Support the growth of the team by mentoring team members directly and by example.
• Help others reach their true potential and drive engineering best practices.
• Leverage strong pattern recognition to build SaaS applications that effectively balance complexity, quality, and speed of delivery.
• Build for our customers, avoiding complexity for complexity’s sake.
• Lead initiatives to fine-tune controls and communication channels to improve predictability and system reliability.
• Use data to ruthlessly prioritize work that moves the needle.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• salary
• benefits
• potential equity in a fast-growing startup
• Professional Growth
• Access to resources and mentorship to expand your skill set, influence strategy, and accelerate your career.

What This Job Offers

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