Staff Software Development Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Software Development Engineer

Description

Lead the design and delivery of cloud-native, distributed digital solutions across web, mobile, APIs, integrations, and backend systems. Own long-term application architecture and technology strategy, enforce engineering standards and secure coding, and drive DevSecOps/SRE practices for reliability and performance. Design and operationalize agentic AI/LLM solutions (LLMs, RAG, orchestration) with evaluation, monitoring, security, and responsible AI guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive long-term application architecture and technology strategy aligned to business goals

• Lead design and delivery of cloud-native distributed applications across web, mobile, API, integration, and backend platforms

• Establish engineering standards, architectural governance, and quality/security benchmarks via design and code reviews

• Collaborate with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business leaders on complex initiatives

• Champion reliability engineering, observability, performance engineering, and SRE practices (monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis)

• Evaluate and promote emerging technologies, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted engineering practices

• Mentor and guide engineers across teams

• Drive DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, release engineering, and cloud-native development while meeting enterprise scalability, security, maintainability, and compliance standards

• Lead AI application design, development, and operationalization using LLMs, RAG, and workflow orchestration

• Establish best practices for AI development (evaluation, prompt engineering, observability, security, testing, scalability, responsible AI)

• Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise platforms and software delivery processes to ensure reliability, maintainability, compliance

Requirements

• 7+ years of enterprise software development experience in enterprise/web applications

• 5+ years of experience with cloud technologies (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, or similar public cloud services)

• 5+ years full stack development using Node.js or Java-based technologies including microservices, and Spring Boot/REST

• 3+ years of experience in Agile development practices

• 3+ years applying AI tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or Amazon Q to accelerate software design, development, testing, and code review

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Paid time off

• Retirement savings options

• Wellness programs

• Eligible for bonus/commission/short-term incentive in addition to the base pay range

• Equity award target as part of the equity program