[Remote] Staff Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stord is The Consumer Experience Company, powering seamless checkout through delivery for today's leading brands. They are seeking a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical lead for one of their product groups, driving technical direction and ensuring high-quality delivery of foundational software that impacts company revenue.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical direction for your team, ensuring the team is building the right things the right way
- Identify technical risks, surface tradeoffs, and push for decisions that hold up at scale
- Influence roadmap priorities by bringing a strong technical perspective into product and planning conversations
- Lead code reviews and set the quality bar for your team
- Write high-quality, maintainable code in TypeScript/JavaScript using modern frameworks and libraries
- Architect and implement scalable, performant web applications and APIs
- Build and maintain robust integrations and data pipelines for complex business workflows
- Ensure the performance, reliability, and security of your product area
- Work hands-on with cloud services (preferably GCP) and modern infrastructure practices
- Design and implement event-driven architectures and real-time systems
- Act as the go-to technical resource for your team; unblock engineers, review designs, and provide hands-on guidance during complex problem-solving
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure systems, while maintaining a focus on simplicity and maintainability
- Tackle complex technical challenges across the stack, driving innovation and delivering efficient solutions
- Guide and mentor engineers at junior and mid levels, helping them grow technically and build good engineering habits. Raise the team's overall technical capability over time
- Partner with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and prioritize work, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality features
- Set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing, and software development practices
- Contribute to cross-team technical initiatives alongside other Staff and Principal Engineers
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on modern web development
- Proven track record of leading technical delivery on complex, distributed systems in production environments
- Experience as a tech lead or in a similar role where you drove technical direction for a team
- Strong understanding of full-stack development principles and scalable system design
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP
- Experience building complex web applications and working with large datasets
- Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
- Experience with high-performance, scalable web applications
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern web development ecosystem
- Strong experience with React and/or other modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js, Angular)
- Strong proficiency in Node.js and server-side JavaScript development
- Experience with modern build tools and development workflows (Webpack, Vite, etc.)
- Strong understanding of API design and development (REST, GraphQL)
- Experience with database systems and data modeling (SQL and NoSQL)
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of distributed system patterns and microservices architecture
- Comfortable driving technical direction without direct management authority
- Strong communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Ability to give direct, constructive feedback to peers and junior engineers
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Proactive about surfacing risks, gaps, and opportunities rather than waiting to be asked
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other Staff/Principal Engineers and teams across the organization
- Previous startup or high-growth company experience
- Previous Tech Lead or Staff+ positions
- Previous logistics or supply chain experience
- Experience with Order Management Systems (OMS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), or Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
- Experience with state management libraries (Redux, Zustand, etc.)
- Knowledge of testing frameworks and practices (Jest, Cypress, Playwright, etc.)
- Experience with real-time applications using WebSockets or Server-Sent Events
- Experience with message queues and event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, etc.)
- Contributions to open-source JavaScript/TypeScript projects or the broader community
- Experience with progressive web applications (PWAs) and mobile-responsive design
- Knowledge of performance optimization techniques for web applications
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