Staff Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer based in the United States. This is an opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to shape the architecture and technical direction of large-scale digital platforms serving millions of customers. You will influence engineering strategy across multiple teams, establish scalable architectural standards, and solve complex technical challenges across web, mobile, and emerging digital channels. Working at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and digital product development, you will help deliver seamless customer experiences across hospitality, entertainment, and commerce. You will balance hands-on coding with strategic planning, technology evaluation, and cross-functional collaboration. Through mentorship and technical leadership, you will elevate engineering practices, strengthen system reliability, and guide long-term technical investments. This full-time remote role is suited to a highly experienced engineer who can connect business priorities with robust, innovative technology solutions.

Cross-team architectural leadership: Drive technical strategy and architectural alignment across multiple engineering teams, establishing reusable patterns, standards, and practices that support organizational consistency. Complex problem-solving: Lead the resolution of challenging technical issues involving large-scale redesigns, distributed systems, infrastructure optimization, and emerging technology paradigms. Strategic technical planning: Identify architectural gaps, inefficiencies, and technical debt before they become critical issues. Develop business cases and multi-quarter roadmaps with clear objectives and measurable success criteria. Hands-on engineering: Contribute code to critical infrastructure, complex algorithms, architectural implementations, and proof-of-concepts, helping unblock teams and advance high-priority initiatives. Technology evaluation and innovation: Assess new tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches. Lead pilots and proof-of-concepts, making recommendations based on technical value, scalability, and organizational needs. Engineering quality and standards: Review architecture and code across teams, promoting improvements in testing, security, observability, deployment practices, and overall software quality. Mentorship and knowledge sharing: Support the development of senior engineers through design reviews, technical presentations, documentation, and collaborative problem-solving. Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product, engineering, operations, and security stakeholders to translate business priorities into effective technical solutions and improve digital customer experiences. Requirements Professional experience: At least 8 years of software engineering experience with increasing technical responsibility and influence, including at least 2 years operating at a senior level with demonstrated cross-team architectural impact. Enterprise delivery: Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale systems using modern frameworks, engineering practices, and DevOps methodologies. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. An advanced degree, such as an MS or MBA, is preferred. Relevant technical certifications are highly desirable. Digital product expertise: Significant experience delivering high-quality web and mobile products. Experience in e-commerce, hospitality, entertainment, retail, or other customer-facing industries is strongly preferred. Programming languages and frameworks: Deep proficiency across multiple technologies, such as C# and .NET/.NET Core, Node.js, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, React Native, Next.js, and Python, with the ability to work effectively across the stack. Architecture and system design: Extensive experience designing scalable, resilient distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven architectures, real-time data processing, and REST or GraphQL APIs. Cloud and infrastructure: Strong expertise with AWS, Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes. Quality and observability: Experience with comprehensive testing strategies, static analysis tools such as SonarQube, API testing tools such as Postman, and enterprise monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace or equivalent solutions. Security and compliance: Solid understanding of application security, data privacy, and compliance requirements, including PCI DSS and GDPR. AI and engineering productivity: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and emerging productivity technologies, including Python-based tooling such as FastMCP or similar. Strategic and business skills: Ability to translate business objectives into multi-quarter technical roadmaps, build business cases for technical investments, and communicate complex concepts clearly to executive leadership. Leadership and collaboration: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate across product, engineering, operations, and security teams. Customer focus: Understanding of digital customer experience expectations in high-volume, customer-driven environments. Benefits Work arrangement: Fully remote position. Employment type: Full-time. Technical impact: Opportunity to influence architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams and large-scale digital platforms. Professional development: Scope to mentor experienced engineers, share technical expertise, and help shape engineering practices and technology strategy. Collaborative environment: Cross-functional work with product, engineering, operations, and security teams on complex, customer-facing digital experiences. Compensation and additional benefits: Salary, healthcare coverage, retirement plans, paid leave, and other benefits are not specified in the provided job description. Pre-employment screening: Background checks are required as part of onboarding. Additional screening requirements may apply to certain roles in accordance with applicable policies and laws.