Senior Engineer, Platform Services

Stord

. Own the design, development, and operational health of shared services including authentication/authorization, eventing/messaging, API gateways, and shared libraries .

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsElixirTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the design, development, and operational health of shared services including authentication/authorization, eventing/messaging, API gateways, and shared libraries
Establish clear service contracts, SLOs, and integration patterns that product teams can rely on
Drive these services from their current state of distributed, informal ownership to well-defined, productized capabilities
Maintain and improve service documentation, onboarding guides, and self-service tooling for consuming teams
Translate architectural direction from the Principal Engineering Group into production-quality implementations
Build reference implementations that demonstrate how product teams should integrate with shared services
Identify and resolve technical debt in shared services that slows product team velocity
Contribute to Technical Design Documents and participate in architectural reviews
Write clean, well-tested, production-ready code—this is a hands-on building role
Contribute to the technical strategy for unifying Stord’s product suite into a composable marketplace of services
Ensure shared services support multi-product integration scenarios cleanly, particularly as acquired products are consolidated
Act as the go-to technical resource for product teams integrating with platform services
Proactively identify friction points in how product teams consume shared services and drive improvements
Collaborate with SRE on infrastructure concerns that affect shared service reliability
Contribute to developer experience initiatives where they intersect with platform service adoption

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
Strong proficiency in at least one of: Elixir or TypeScript. Willingness and demonstrated ability to learn the other quickly
Experience designing, building, and operating shared services or platform capabilities consumed by other engineering teams
Track record of taking ownership of ambiguously-scoped technical problems and driving them to resolution
Comfort working across multiple codebases and navigating unfamiliar systems
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: service contracts, event-driven architectures, API design, and failure modes
Clear technical communication—ability to write effective design documents and explain trade-offs to varied audience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

ElixirTypeScriptAPI designevent-driven architecturedistributed systemsproduction systemstechnical design documentsclean codeservice contractstechnical debt resolution

Soft Skills

clear technical communicationownershipproblem-solvingcollaborationproactive improvementadaptabilitydocumentation skillscross-team collaborationnavigating unfamiliar systemsdriving technical strategy