Staff Software Engineer

MagicSchool AI

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $205,000 - $240,000 per year

Lead

BigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsPostgresPythonReactTypeScript

About the role

Lead complex projects and make high-leverage architectural decisions balancing speed, quality, and scalability
Own features or systems from design to deployment, ensuring clean integration with architecture
Design and build core APIs, services, and frameworks to power products and developer experience
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and drive best practices for reliability and performance
Coach and mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams
Partner with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to deliver solutions
Help shape engineering culture, improve processes, and identify opportunities to make development faster and safer

7+ years in software engineering (with at least 2+ years in a senior or staff role)
Strong experience in building scalable applications and APIs
Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, NextJS, React, Vercel, Supabase
Bonus: Python, BigQuery
Architectural thinking and ability to design systems for long-term maintainability and growth
Track record of influencing technical direction and mentoring engineers (leadership without authority)
Startup or high-growth experience is a plus
Familiarity with observability practices (logging, monitoring, alerting) and secure development practices (nice to have)
Experience with cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, or multi-tenant SaaS (nice to have)
Exposure to data engineering, analytics platforms, or ML/AI products (nice to have)
Strong communication, collaboration, adaptability, and curiosity
Work authorization: must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada without visa sponsorship (U.S. and Canada-based candidates only)