
Staff Software Engineer
Sydecar
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $225,000 - $255,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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