Staff Engineer
Nextech Systems
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Define technical direction and architectural patterns for significant areas of the product or platform, ensuring alignment with business strategy and long-term scalability.
- Lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives from concept through delivery, coordinating work across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Apply expert-level skills to solve highly complex technical problems, evaluate alternatives, and make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, quality, cost, and risk.
- Partner closely with product and design leadership to shape roadmaps, validate solutions with customers, and ensure technical investments support customer value.
- Establish and enforce standards for code quality, testing, performance, security, and operational excellence across teams.
- Identify systemic issues affecting quality, reliability, or developer productivity and drive long-term improvements in processes, tools, and system design.
- Act as a mentor and role model for senior and mid-level engineers, providing advice on technical design, career growth, and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with management and other leaders to influence team composition, technical staffing, and the sequencing of work to maximize impact and reduce delivery risk.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional forums, communicating complex technical topics clearly to executives, customers, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, evaluating their applicability and guiding adoption where appropriate.
- Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned based on business needs
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Typically 10 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience in senior or lead roles.
- Demonstrated expertise designing and delivering complex, distributed systems or platforms in a production environment.
- Proven ability to define and drive technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams or product areas.
- Strong track record of improving engineering practices, quality, and operational reliability at a team or organizational level.
- Extensive experience mentoring and coaching engineers at different levels, including influencing without direct management authority.
- Academic education and/or professional certifications and experience demonstrating advanced competency in relevant technologies, with the ability to assess technical directions and technologies teams should adopt.
Benefits
- Generous annual bonus opportunity
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Flexible Time Off: take time off when you need it without worrying about available hours
- 11 paid holidays
- Your Day Your Way - Celebrate a day of cultural or social significance to you
- Insurance: Choice of Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account with employer match
- Flexible Spending Account
- 100% Company-Paid Parental leave (After 6 months with the company)
- 100% Company-Paid Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
- Nextech Luminary Peer Recognition Program
- Wellness Program including discounts on medical premiums
- Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions available
- Corporate Discounts on Retail, Travel, and Entertainment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringtechnical strategyarchitectural patternsdistributed systemscode qualitytestingperformancesecurityoperational excellenceengineering best practices
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvinginfluencingdecision-makingcoachingstrategic thinkingcross-functional coordination
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Software Engineering