Staff Software Engineer

PerfectServe

Staff Software Engineer driving key technical initiatives and shaping engineering practices at PerfectServe. Working remotely to deliver high-impact software solutions and mentor other engineers.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDjangoDockerFlaskJenkinsKubernetesPostgresPythonReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive architectural decisions that span multiple teams and services, balancing long-term sustainability with near-term delivery needs.
Identify and resolve high-priority technical risks, bottlenecks, and systemic issues across the platform before they become production problems.
Own the technical direction of cross-team initiatives from inception through delivery, including design documentation, stakeholder alignment, and implementation.
Establish and champion engineering standards, patterns, and best practices that improve consistency, reliability, and developer productivity organization-wide.
Contribute production-quality code to critical, high-complexity features and platform services using Python and React.
Lead major refactors and modernization efforts, improving performance, observability, and maintainability of core systems.
Write and review Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipeline configurations (Jenkins, ArgoCD) to support reliable, repeatable deployments.
Implement and promote automated testing strategies — unit, integration, and end-to-end — that maintain confidence in a fast-moving codebase.
Serve as a technical mentor and thought partner to senior and intermediate engineers, helping them grow through code reviews, design discussions, and informal coaching.
Lead internal tech talks, brown bags, and documentation efforts to disseminate technical knowledge across the organization.
Participate actively in the engineering hiring process, including technical interviews and calibration, helping raise the quality of the team.
Model the behaviors of a high-trust, high-ownership engineering culture: bias for action, direct communication, and shared accountability for outcomes.
Partner with Product Owners and QA leads to shape roadmap priorities through a technical lens, identifying dependencies and sequencing work for maximum impact.
Communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders, including engineering leadership and product management.
Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to improve infrastructure automation, observability tooling, and cloud resource efficiency on AWS.
Represent engineering in cross-functional planning forums, contributing to roadmap shaping, capacity planning, and technical risk discussions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years operating at a senior or staff level in a distributed, product-focused engineering organization.
Deep expertise in Python and at least one modern web framework (Django, FastAPI, or Flask); working proficiency in React or a comparable frontend framework.
Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of complex, multi-team technical initiatives — not just contributing to them.
Strong command of distributed systems concepts: service decomposition, event-driven architectures, API design, caching strategies, and data consistency patterns.
Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), and modern CI/CD toolchains (Jenkins, Helm, ArgoCD).
Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including schema design, indexing, and query optimization at scale.
Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to produce clear, audience-appropriate technical documentation and design artifacts.
A track record of improving engineering culture and practices — through mentorship, documentation, process improvements, or tooling — not just shipping features.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote first work environment
Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance options available day one.
401K - with match and immediately vested.
17 company holidays, 2 floating holidays plus competitive paid time off policy
Internal Advancement Opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonReactDjangoFastAPIFlaskKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLCI/CDAWS

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationMentorshipCollaborationProblem-SolvingStakeholder Alignment