Staff Software Engineer - NYC Tri-State Area

Canopy Works•New York City, NY

5d•Remote

About The Position

Canopy, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their team in the New York City Tri-State Area. Canopy builds technology that enhances safety in healthcare environments through a connected safety platform for real-time communication, response coordination, and location intelligence. This role is for an experienced engineer who can drive architecture, influence engineering standards, and contribute to scaling the platform, organization, and culture. The Staff Software Engineer will serve as a senior technical leader across multiple product and platform initiatives, partnering with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Engineering leadership to design and evolve reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems. This role involves operating horizontally across teams to define architecture, improve engineering velocity, raise quality standards, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building and scaling production systems.
Demonstrated experience operating at Staff Engineer scope across teams or domains.
Strong expertise in modern full-stack application development.
Deep proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems, including React and/or Vue.js and Node.js.
Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures.
Strong experience with cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes in production environments.
Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
Proven ability to influence technical direction without formal authority.
Strong debugging, systems analysis, and architectural problem-solving capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, safety-critical, or high-availability environments.
Experience scaling SaaS platforms through periods of rapid growth.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures, real-time systems, or location-aware platforms.
Experience improving engineering operational maturity in growing organizations.
Exposure to DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering practices.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and evolution of scalable full-stack systems across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and platform infrastructure.
Drive architectural decisions that improve reliability, maintainability, performance, and developer velocity.
Identify and address technical debt, scalability bottlenecks, and operational risks.
Establish and reinforce engineering best practices around observability, testing, security, resiliency, and deployment workflows.
Contribute meaningfully to long-term platform and technical strategy.
Design and build modern web applications and services powering mission-critical healthcare workflows.
Develop highly performant frontend experiences using modern frameworks such as React or Vue.
Build backend systems and APIs using Node.js and distributed service architectures.
Collaborate closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous requirements into elegant technical solutions.
Optimize systems for usability, reliability, and operational scale.
Partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Experience, and Operations to solve complex organizational and technical problems.
Act as a force multiplier by improving team decision-making, engineering processes, and development standards.
Facilitate technical discussions and drive alignment across teams with differing priorities.
Help teams balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Improve deployment reliability, monitoring, incident response, and production readiness practices.
Contribute to scaling Canopy’s cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platform.
Champion engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and operational rigor.
Help define and evolve engineering operating rhythms as the company scales.
Mentor and level up engineers through technical guidance, coaching, and example-setting.
Raise the bar on technical craftsmanship and systems thinking across the organization.
Foster a collaborative, high-accountability engineering culture rooted in curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Contribute to hiring and talent assessment for senior engineering candidates.