Staff Software Engineer

Shibumi•Royal Oak, MI

60d•$120,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Shibumi, we build the strategic portfolio management (SPM) platform that helps some of the world's largest organizations decide where billions of dollars of strategic investment go. Our customers rely on the platform to plan, prioritize, fund, and execute their most important initiatives. This role comes with broad ownership. You'll help shape the platform's technical direction, improve how we build software, and raise the engineering bar through design, mentorship, and thoughtful technical leadership. The goal isn't to close the most tickets. It's to make an established engineering team meaningfully stronger.

Requirements

Lead through technical credibility rather than organizational authority.
Influence technical direction and earn trust without relying on title.
Make pragmatic engineering decisions and know when simplicity beats elegance.
Own and improve large, mature codebases instead of always starting greenfield.
Build production systems in Java.
Work comfortably across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and whatever else the problem requires.
Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, QA, and leadership.
Simplify systems, question unnecessary complexity, and consistently leave codebases healthier than they found them.
Authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Spring experience is a plus.
Multi-tenant SaaS platform experience.
Event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
Experience with TypeScript/React or Rust.
Experience designing configurable platforms rather than single-purpose applications.

Responsibilities

Design solutions for new initiatives.
Untangle the hardest problems in our existing systems.
Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design and code review.
Ship meaningful features yourself.
Shape the platform's technical direction.
Improve how we build software.
Raise the engineering bar through design, mentorship, and thoughtful technical leadership.
Own significant areas of the platform from ambiguous problem through design, implementation, deployment, and long-term ownership.
Own large initiatives before they reach a sprint by turning broad business goals into technically sound execution plans.
Own the cross-cutting technical problems that span services, teams, and architectural boundaries.
Raise the engineering bar through design discussions, architecture reviews, mentoring, and thoughtful code review.
Help the team avoid unnecessary complexity by knowing what not to build.