Staff Fullstack Engineer

Dispatch

Staff Fullstack Engineer at Dispatch setting technical architecture decisions for complex systems. Leading high-impact projects and mentoring engineers to elevate technical standards.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeNew York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Node.jsReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the architecture for our hardest cross-cutting platform decisions — service boundaries, data models, sync semantics, and integration patterns — and make them defensibly, in writing and in conversation with the engineers who will live with them.
Ship the highest-complexity systems end-to-end — data orchestration, sync, custodian integrations, and customer-facing apps. You stay hands-on in production code.
Raise the technical bar across the engineering org on system design, code quality, and observability. Engineers across teams seek your review because it sharpens their work.
Partner with Product, Design, and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap — surfacing trade-offs, sequencing decisions, and risks the plan depends on.
Mentor and uplevel senior engineers without managing them. Your influence shows up in design reviews, the systems you build, and the example you set.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of engineering experience with a personal track record of architecting and shipping high-scale, high-complexity production systems.
Deep fullstack depth — comfortable writing production Node and React at a high level of craft.
Experience setting technical direction across multiple engineers or teams — you've been the person whose architectural calls others built on top of.
Strong record of working closely with cross-functional product teams to ship customer-facing software that holds up in production.
Meaningful time at an early-stage, high-growth company — startup work as a core part of your career, not a brief stint, on teams that shipped weekly or faster with output that held up under that pace.
A career spent hands-on in production code, shipping end-to-end — not specs written or systems proposed, but production outcomes you owned: the hardest bugs, gnarliest migrations, and most fragile systems.
Evidence of force-multiplying the engineers around you — through design reviews, mentorship, or code that became a template others built from. References should speak to how the bar moved up around you.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Dispatch provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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Hard Skills & Tools

architecturedata modelssync semanticsintegration patternsNodeReactsystem designcode qualityobservabilitydata orchestration

Soft Skills

mentorshipinfluencecross-functional collaborationcommunicationleadership