Description
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader, guiding software initiatives with significant AI components.
Your role involves developing strategic AI implementation roadmaps, focusing on core software engineering and innovative AI integration.
You will apply modern software development practices across the end-to-end software development life cycle, utilizing your deep technical expertise to design enterprise-grade architectures and coordinate multi-team efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Optimize cloud resource costs and develop a deep understanding of AI model evaluation and selection.
- Drive technical direction and innovation while addressing performance and scale challenges, including AI model drift.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including senior stakeholders, to deliver projects, specify development activities, and manage milestones and timelines.
- Articulate the role of Software Development Engineering and its value to the business.
- Influence multiple cross-functional project teams to execute and adopt a point of view for ideas and initiatives.
- Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
- Train and mentor colleagues, including Sr. Software Engineers.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to deliver projects and manage milestones.
- Communicate the value of Software Development Engineering to the business.
- Apply modern software development practices across the end-to-end software development life cycle.
- Design enterprise-grade architectures and coordinate multi-team efforts.
- Optimize cloud resource costs and develop deep understanding of AI models.
- Drive technical direction and innovation while addressing performance and scale challenges.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including senior stakeholders, to deliver projects, specify development activities, and manage milestones and timelines.
- Articulate the role of Software Development Engineering and its value to the business.
- Lead significant projects, programs and business initiatives, demonstrating creativity and ingenuity.
- Determine work priorities based on general direction from managers.
- Provide specialist advice to middle and senior management to resolve complex issues related to emerging technologies.
- May informally lead the daily work of assigned work group / team.
- Recommend modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group / team.
- Model curiosity and display passion to constantly learn new things in rapidly evolving technology landscape.
- Demonstrate adaptability and growth mindset when facing technological changes.
Requirements:
- 10+ Years of software engineering experience, including work with both co-located and geographically distributed teams.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft C++ (MFC, COM, Win32) with solid object-oriented design and development skills.
- Experience with agentic coding tools and AI-native software engineering workflows.
- Hands-on experience with .NET, C#, ASP.NET, and REST APIs.
- Solid working knowledge of SQL and relational databases (RDBMS).
- Practical experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices and tools such as GitHub workflows.
- Experience with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (EC2, S3, ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS, Lambda, SQS).
- Strong communication skills across formats,in-person, phone, email, chat, whiteboarding, and other collaboration platforms,with the ability to clearly explain, inform, and coordinate.
- Willingness to learn and support our legacy codebase during the transition to our next-generation platform.
Benefits:
- Hybrid Work Model: 2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career Development and Growth: Culture of continuous learning and skill development.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans, including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Social Impact: Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.