Staff Software Engineer

Clarvos LLC•*, TX, TX

12d•Remote

About The Position

We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive technical excellence across our engineering stack. In this role, you will: Architect and develop scalable web applications using modern web frameworks ensuring code quality and best practices across frontend and backend systems. Implementing responsive UI components, state management solutions, and modern web technologies to create exceptional user experiences. Lead development teams through complex technical challenges, providing mentorship and guidance while maintaining high standards of engineering excellence. Design database schema and APIs to support business requirements and system scalability. Collaborate with Product, UX-Design, Full-stack, Data engineering, Data science and MLOps teams to deliver innovative solutions while making key technical decisions that shape our platform's future. This position requires multiple disciplines, multiple technologies and understanding of higher software and ML engineering principles. We are focused on engineering, not just development, and we are driven by engineering practices that are more than just completing tasks.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar field; master’s is preferred.
12+ years of experience in Software Development.
Proven track record leading complex full stack initiatives including modern frontend web frame works selection and implementation.
Full-stack development experience with proficiency in Java and Spring for backend development.
Frontend development expertise with modern JavaScript frameworks (Next.JS, Angular, React, Vue or similar).
Experience building and maintaining scalable applications and APIs.
Strong understanding of database design, caching strategies and API optimization
Ability to deal with confidential and sensitive information.
Must be able to identify and escalate non-technical issues to their immediate Supervisor.
Requires the ability to prioritize work, meet stringent deadlines, balance multiple tasks and work in a team environment.
Proven experience working in a fast-paced environment where personal initiative is a critical element to success.
Experience with 2 or more Object-Oriented languages: Python, Java, JS.Next
Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, deploying services to Kubernetes (preferred).

Nice To Haves

Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Terraform and Jenkins is a plus; using Infrastructure and deployment as code.
Working experience on GCP, LLMs, Cursor etc. (preferred)

Responsibilities

Architect and optimize APIs (such as RESTful, GRPC, GraphQL) and database schemas.
Design/implement scalable full-stack applications using Java/Spring backends and modern frontend frameworks.
Lead development of new features and maintain existing codebase.
Implement automated testing and deployment strategies.
Optimize application performance and resolve technical debt.
Guide technical architecture decisions and technology selection/implementation.
Review code and provide technical mentorship/leadership to other engineers.
Collaborate with product and design teams to define technical requirements.
Establish coding standards and development best practices.
Monitor system health and implement improvements based on metrics.
Document technical specifications and system architecture.
Passion for designing and creating solutions.
Take part in designing/architecting solutions that are flexible, extensible, and maintainable.
Take an active part in the implementation of solutions.
Open to solutions that are beyond your comfort zone (any language, any technology).
Software Architecture Principles focus on SOLID Principles, The "Least" Principles, and The Principles of "Economics".
Platform Engineering is a product, built by Engineering and offered to developers, data scientists or end users.
Vertical Slice Architecture are applications and modules in terms of features not functional layer.
Evolutionary Design practice of growing a system in a natural way with a minimum amount of code to satisfy the business needs while designing for change rather than designing for perfection.
DevOps coordination and collaboration between Software/Data Engineering, IT Operations, Quality Engineering, and Security.
CI/CD: Continuous integration Continuous delivery, Continuous deployment.
Microservice Architecture: An architectural style that structures an application as a collection of services and is independently deployable, loosely coupled, organized around business capabilities (single responsibility), owned by a small team, and is highly maintainable and testable.
Event Driven Architecture: Uses events to trigger and communicate between decoupled services.
Cloud native and Cloud based environments including Kubernetes/Containers.