Sydecar

Staff Software Engineer

Sydecar

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $225,000 - $255,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead large/complex projects.
  • Outline technology strategies with a 1-2 quarter time horizon.
  • Cultivate the growth of talented full stack engineers through mentorship.
  • Help shape the product and design roadmaps.
  • Drive end-to-end the architectural decisions, scalability planning, and long-term strategic vision for these key components.
  • Collaborate across functions with Product and Design, Legal, Compliance, and Customer Experience and other engineering leaders to deliver cohesive, platform-wide solutions.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
  • Expertise in building large-scale, high-reliability, distributed backend systems, ideally in the fintech or payments space.
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript is highly preferred.
  • Experience managing the complete project lifecycle, transforming intricate ideas and ambiguous requirements into successful launches independently.
  • Deep expertise in system architecture, data modeling, and building core services with clean interfaces.
  • Product sense and a passion for advocating for the customer, with experience building robust systems that directly impact business-critical flows.
  • Outstanding capacity to convey intricate technical concepts clearly and precisely, both in writing and verbally, to diverse functional teams.
  • Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, while also thriving in a team environment, often guiding the work of several other engineers across multiple projects.
  • Ability to implement and influence engineering best practices.
Benefits
  • Offers Equity
  • $22.5K – $25.5K Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaScriptTypeScriptsystem architecturedata modelingbackend systemsdistributed systemsproject lifecycle managementclean interfacesengineering best practiceslarge-scale systems
Soft Skills
mentorshipcollaborationcommunicationownershipindependenceteamworkproduct senseadvocacy for customercapacity to convey technical conceptsguiding engineers