Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend Development (TypeScript & NestJS)

Staff Software Engineer I - Typescript & NestJS

Scope:

• Partners closely with Product Management to translate business and customer needs into clear, actionable backlog items and technical deliverables.
• Owns product and delivery outcomes by shaping scope, priorities, and execution approach.
• Drives technical direction and execution without people-management responsibility, influencing how the team plans, builds, and delivers software.
• Ensures delivery of high-quality, reliable, and secure software through strong engineering practices.
• Identifies dependencies, risks, and impediments early and drives pragmatic resolution.
• Continuously improves system design, code quality, and operational robustness.
• Promotes a security-first mindset and ownership of production systems.
• Understands how team deliverables impact the broader platform, dependent teams, and customers.

What you’ll do:

• Partner with Product Management to shape product vision, scope, and roadmap.
• Translate business goals and user needs into well-defined, prioritized backlog items.
• Slice work to enable fast, incremental, and value-driven delivery.
• Quantify value, cost, and risk to support effective prioritization and trade-off decisions.
• Organize and structure work to maximize engineering focus and productivity.
• Make dependencies, risks, and execution challenges visible and propose practical alternatives.
• Balance feature development with refactoring, reliability, and operational cost.
• Raise the bar on code quality, testing, and system design.
• Reduce complexity and improve system robustness and maintainability.
• Coach engineers on architecture, problem-solving, and engineering best practices.
• Drive root-cause analysis and long-term fixes for technical and operational issues.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and apply relevant best practices.

What we are looking for:

• 9.5 to 13 years of overall software engineering experience.
• Senior or Staff-level engineer with strong product-oriented technical ownership and accountability for outcomes.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript and NestJS with hands-on backend development experience.
• Strong system design and API architecture skills for scalable, cloud-native SaaS platforms.
• Proven experience in MongoDB data modeling and designing data-intensive services.
• Ability to translate complex business and customer needs into executable technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native SaaS solutions (Azure preferred).
• Good exposure to event-driven architectures and asynchronous system patterns.
• Experience with workflow automation using Azure Logic Apps or similar tools is a plus.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability practices for production systems.
• Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, system reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Our Values

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Experience Level

Senior Level