Staff Software Engineer - Platform

Location: Soho, NYC / Remote
Department: Engineering

The Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help grow and build the core platform that powers our Flowcode 2 application at scale. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, leadership, and pragmatic execution with a focus on creating and augmenting reliable, scalable, and extensible services and applications. 

You’ll operate as a technical leader with in our Platform pod, growing platform capabilities, building new features and problem solving in a dynamic and challenging technical environment.. While this is a hands-on role, it requires a strong bias toward backend systems, distributed architecture and deep technical leadership. We value the ability to guide teams toward pragmatic, high-impact solutions.

This role is ideal for an engineer who values simplicity, correctness, and pragmatism, and who can balance long-term platform investments with immediate business needs.

What You’ll Do

• Own critical systems end-to-end, including design, implementation and deployment,
• Hands on designing, building, and maintaining scalable features across a modern front-end framework and backend services.
• Architect for growth — help drive your pods’s technical roadmap and shepherd established engineering best practices.
• Collaborate across teams with product, design, and data to deliver measure, deliver and grows features quickly and iteratively.
• Mentor and guide senior engineers, raising the bar for technical execution and system design across teams.
• Balance ideal engineering with the realities of speed, customer needs, and startup resource constraints.
• Drive improvements in observability, performance, and incident response
• Advocate for pragmatic solutions, solving the right problems with the appropriate level of complexity.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems, with a strong backend focus.
• Deep expertise in building high-performance, concurrent services.
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, and consistency tradeoffs Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern deployment patterns (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in several modern backend language (e.g., Go, Python, C#,, Java).
• Commitment to code quality, with solid grounding in design patterns, testing, and CI/CD.
• Strong grasp of scalability and performance, able to make informed tradeoffs between speed and correctness.