Parafin

Staff Software Engineer, Partner Platform

Parafin

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $265,000 - $330,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead the technical design and evolution of key components of our partner platform infrastructure, including partner data ingestion and sharing systems, public APIs, and durable webhook delivery systems.
  • Drive end-to-end initiatives that improve the partner journey, from developer tooling and dashboards to the underlying platform systems that power ingestion, APIs, and real-time partner updates.
  • Set direction through technical vision, RFCs, and architecture reviews, aligning stakeholders across engineering, data, and product on priorities and tradeoffs.
  • Design and operate asynchronous, event-driven systems to reliably process partner data and deliver real-time updates to partner systems.
  • Raise the bar for engineering quality through mentoring, code review, and improving team processes, reliability practices, and on-call health.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend or platform systems
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science (or related field)
  • You care deeply about building high-quality software and take immense pride in your craft.
  • You have experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional projects and can make sound tradeoffs across reliability, scalability, developer experience, and time to value.
  • You are comfortable owning and driving the development of both product and platform initiatives from scratch.
  • You take the initiative to identify commonalities between different problem statements and design appropriate abstractions accordingly.
  • You have a strong grasp of engineering fundamentals.
  • You have experience building and operating asynchronous systems or data pipelines in production environments.
  • You are excited about working on a small team and helping us set the foundations for the company.
Benefits
  • Equity grant
  • Medical, dental & vision insurance
  • Work from home flexibility
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Commuter benefits
  • Free lunches
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k)
  • Employee assistance program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
backend systemsplatform systemsasynchronous systemsevent-driven systemsdata pipelinespublic APIspartner data ingestionreliability practicescode reviewengineering fundamentals
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationinitiativeproblem-solvingmentoringcommunicationstakeholder alignmenttradeoff analysisquality focusteamwork
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science