Description
The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for architecting and building a brand-new, scalable platform that enables business-critical ecommerce capabilities.
This role requires deep full-stack expertise and prior experience in e-commerce SaaS environments. The engineer will design foundational architecture, define technical standards, and deliver a production-grade platform that supports long-term growth, extensibility, and operational excellence.
This is a highly autonomous role with significant influence over system design, technical direction, and engineering best practices.
How you will achieve success:
- Designs and launches a scalable, production-ready platform from zero to one.
- Establishes foundational architecture that supports rapid feature expansion and multi-tenant growth.
- Balances speed of delivery with long-term maintainability.
- Implements secure, reliable, observable systems aligned with SaaS best practices.
- Creates extensible APIs and UI layers that enable internal and external consumers.
- Drives engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, code quality, and documentation.
- Anticipates ecommerce-specific challenges.
- Acts as a technical leader and mentor while remaining hands-on.
What experiences will help you in this role:
- 8-10 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in platform services, with deep expertise in data platform engineering, backend systems, and front-end application development.
- Proven experience building or significantly contributing to e-commerce SaaS platforms.
- Experience working in high-growth, scaling environments.
- Strong backend development experience (Python).
- Strong frontend development experience (React).
- Experience designing RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and system design.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Knowledge of secure software design principles.