Staff Engineer – Software Engineer

TheIncLab

full-time

Posted on: 12/8/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: McLean • Florida, Tennessee, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead and drive architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable software solutions.
What will you do?
- Define and drive technical strategy, architecture, and design for complex systems.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for software engineering best practices, frameworks, and tools.
- Lead teams but no direct supervisory responsibilities.
- Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams to elevate technical capabilities.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals.
- Identify and implement innovative solutions to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Lead technical investigations and resolve critical issues in production systems.
- Establish coding standards, review processes, and ensure adherence to security and compliance requirements.
- Evaluate and integrate modern technologies, tools, and frameworks such as VS Code, TypeScript, React, Redux, Node.js, NestJS, Electron.js, Cesium.js, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Advocate for continuous improvement in development processes and tooling.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, leveraging advancements to enhance architectural strategies.
- Focus on hands-on development for the most challenging project components to ensure successful implementation.

**Capabilities that will enable your success**
- Bachelor's in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead role.
- Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale, distributed systems.
- Hands-on expertise in modern software development stacks, such as MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js, Electron.js, Nest.js, Yjs, Kafka.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, JavaScript and cloud platforms like AWS, or Azure.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Gitlab, and automated testing frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Jest, Detox).
- Strong understanding of networking, APIs, and database systems (CouchDB, SQL and NoSQL).
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead and mentor teams.
- Have the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time based on company and customer needs.

Benefits

At TheIncLab we recognize that innovation thrives when employees are provided with ample support and resources. Our benefits packages reflect that:
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules
- Professional development programs
- Training and certification reimbursement
- Extended and floating holiday schedule
- Paid time off and Paid volunteer time
- Health and Wellness Benefits include options for Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance along with access to Wellness, Mental Health, and Employee Assistance Programs.
- 100% Company Paid Benefits that include STD, LTD, and Basic Life insurance.
- 401(k) Plan Options with employer matching
- Incentive bonuses for eligible clearances, performance, and employee referrals.
- A company culture that values your individual strengths, career goals, and contributions to the team.

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