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From the employer's careers site First seen 5 Nov 2026

Staff Software Engineer, Messaging Experience

Braze Chicago Hybrid staff full-time

Salary

$184,000 - $299,812/annually

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Description

We're looking for a Staff Engineer for our Messaging Experience team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Canvas, our flagship product.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between the customer-facing dashboard and the underlying orchestration engines which power delivery.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner on the technical vision and quality bar for the division
  • Drive architectural direction, define best practices, and ensure teams have a clear path to resolving persistent quality and technical debt issues
  • Lead large, ambiguous projects end-to-end
  • Support maturing channels
  • Mentor engineers at every level
  • Champion reliability and operability
  • Deliver code

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time as a technical leader influencing multiple teams or complex product systems
  • Experience building foundational backend systems at scale and working on complex and performant web-based user interfaces
  • Comfortable working across the full stack
  • Experience in Ruby on Rails and proficiency in modern frontend environments (TypeScript, React)
  • Designed and shipped foundational infrastructure
  • Strong architectural judgment
  • Effective communicator and mentor

Recent and ongoing work across the division includes:

  • Developing shared frameworks for our orchestration tools
  • Evolving the dashboard to support real-time feedback and sophisticated automated flows
  • Building platforms and code-generation tooling

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $184,000 - $299,812/annually, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $204,000 - $332,400/annually.

Skills

Required

  • Ruby on Rails
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • backend systems
  • web-based user interfaces
  • architectural judgment
  • mentorship

Nice to have

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