Staff Backend Product Software Engineer – Team Formation
Dropbox
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $216,500 - $292,900 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead and mentor a team of 12 engineers to deliver high-impact business and customer outcomes.
- Contribute hands-on coding (≈50%), primarily in the back-end stack, and write clear, high-quality technical specs.
- Shape technical direction and partner with Product Management as DRIs for critical company-wide objectives.
- Drive cross-organizational impact through strong collaboration with engineering teams and cross-functional partners.
- Champion Agile practices, including planning, estimation, and retrospectives.
- Foster a culture of innovation, clarity in ambiguity, operational excellence, and a strong bias for action.
- Demonstrate senior technical leadership and maintain high engineering standards in a virtual-first environment.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
- Minimum of 12 years of experience as a software engineer
- Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
back-end developmentcodingtechnical specificationsAgile practicesplanningestimationretrospectivestechnical leadershipengineering standards
Soft skills
mentoringcollaborationinnovationclarity in ambiguityoperational excellencebias for action
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science