Staff Software Engineer
Alvys
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead technical initiatives, such as redesigning and implementing major platforms or infrastructures that impact various engineering teams.
- Drive technical vision and architecture decisions across engineering teams, creating well-thought-out design documents that guide long-term work.
- Research, create proofs of concept, and evangelize new technologies that enhance team capabilities and align with business objectives.
- Own the technical architecture and delivery of large-scale, business-critical systems, ensuring they meet the highest standards for stability, performance, and scalability.
- Think holistically about system architecture, reducing complexity to achieve more with less effort.
- Mentor engineers across teams to accelerate their career growth and share knowledge through tech talks, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Manage a smaller team of engineers (e.g., DevOps or Data teams) depending on organizational needs, balancing technical work with people leadership.
- Challenge and improve team processes, ensuring projects are appropriately broken down, prioritized, and well understood.
- Build effective relationships with product, design, and operations to translate business logic into engineering deliverables.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience, with a proven track record of owning and delivering large-scale, mission-critical operational software from design to production.
- Expert-level proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g., C#, Java, TypeScript), with a strong foundation in C# and ASP.NET preferred.
- Nice to have: Familiarity with frontend development concepts and modern UI frameworks to facilitate better end-to-end system design and cross-stack collaboration.
- Competency in both Relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., CosmosDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Postgres), with experience supporting these systems at scale.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining high-traffic, resilient backend systems in a production environment.
- Strong technical leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers; experience managing smaller teams is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
Benefits
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Accommodations during recruitment process
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
C#ASP.NETJavaTypeScriptRelational databasesNoSQL databasesCosmosDBDynamoDBElasticsearchPostgres
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringpeople leadershiprelationship buildingprocess improvementcommunicationcollaborationdesign reviewscode reviewstechnical vision