Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer - Platform Location: Soho, NYC / Remote Department: Engineering The Role We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help grow and build the core platform that powers our Flowcode 2 application at scale. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, leadership, and pragmatic execution with a focus on creating and augmenting reliable, scalable, and extensible services and applications. You’ll operate as a technical leader with in our Platform pod, growing platform capabilities, building new features and problem solving in a dynamic and challenging technical environment.. While this is a hands-on role, it requires a strong bias toward backend systems, distributed architecture and deep technical leadership. We value the ability to guide teams toward pragmatic, high-impact solutions. This role is ideal for an engineer who values simplicity, correctness, and pragmatism, and who can balance long-term platform investments with immediate business needs. What You’ll Do Own critical systems end-to-end, including design, implementation and deployment, Hands on designing, building, and maintaining scalable features across a modern front-end framework and backend services. Architect for growth — help drive your pods’s technical roadmap and shepherd established engineering best practices. Collaborate across teams with product, design, and data to deliver measure, deliver and grows features quickly and iteratively. Mentor and guide senior engineers, raising the bar for technical execution and system design across teams. Balance ideal engineering with the realities of speed, customer needs, and startup resource constraints. Drive improvements in observability, performance, and incident response Advocate for pragmatic solutions, solving the right problems with the appropriate level of complexity. What We’re Looking For 8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems, with a strong backend focus. Deep expertise in building high-