Senior Staff Engineer

LawnStarter; São Paulo; Remote; BRL 624,000 - 988,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive contract rate

Work from anywhere

Flexible hours

High ownership and autonomy

Fast-moving team

Job summary

A leading outdoor services company is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join their remote team. This role involves designing system architecture and leading technical initiatives. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in both server-side and client-side development, with proficiency in cloud services, particularly AWS. The company offers competitive rates, flexible hours, and a high degree of autonomy.

Qualifications

• Experienced in roles like principal engineer or lead full-stack engineer.
• Highly skilled in server-side and client-side software development.
• Proficient in AWS and cloud infrastructure.
• Fundamentally strong in Computer Science concepts.
• Customer-centric with a focus on clean code and quality solutions.
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on system architecture and technical strategy.
• Lead technical initiatives across teams.
• Build and maintain platform-level components and services.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to server-side and client-side development.
• Enhance system performance, scalability, and security.
• Write and review technical design documents and diagrams.
• Evaluate new tools, frameworks, and best practices for the platform.
• Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Share knowledge to foster team growth.

Skills

Server-side development

Client-side development

Cloud development

Test Driven Development (TDD)

RESTful APIs

Database management (SQL, NoSQL)

Data structures

SQL NoSQL

Infrastructure as Code

Big O notation

Tools

AWS Lambda

ECS

EKS

Aurora

Terraform

Job description

We're urgently hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to join our growing LATAM-based remote team.

Help Us Build the Future of Outdoor Services

At LawnStarter, we're transforming the $100B+ outdoor home services industry—making it easier for homeowners to book, manage, and enjoy services like lawn care, landscaping, and more. With $30M+ in venture funding and solid traction, we're investing in the next generation of our platform—and we're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help drive it.

Why This Role Rocks

• Own What You Build - Lead projects end-to-end with full autonomy and real impact
• Remote & Flexible - Work from anywhere and set your own hours
• Build Meaningful Tech - Help shape the tools that thousands of homeowners and service pros rely on daily
• Join at the Right Time - We have strong product-market fit and real momentum—you'll help define what comes next

Our Tech Stack

• Languages & Frameworks: PHP (Laravel), JavaScript (React, React Native, Vue)
• Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora, Redshift)
• Approach: We're not fixated on specific languages. If you have strong engineering fundamentals and experience with any mainstream object-oriented language, we believe you can quickly learn and adapt to our tech stack

What You'll Do

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll work closely with the Software Architect and other engineers to:

• Collaborate on designing and implementing system architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards.
• Lead technical initiatives across teams, ensuring alignment with architectural direction and goals.
• Build and maintain platform-level components, services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and hands-on guidance.
• Contribute directly to both server-side and client-side development across the entire stack.
• Write and review technical design documents, system diagrams, and reference implementations.
• Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve our platform.
• Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security throughout our system.
• Share knowledge and insights to foster team growth and improvement.

Requirements

We're looking for someone who is:

• Experienced: A principal engineer, lead full-stack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles.
• Highly skilled in both server-side and client-side software development.
• Technically Proficient: Familiar with cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
• Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTful APIs, React, MVC frameworks, and security concerns (e.g., XSS attacks).
• Fundamentally Strong in Computer Science Concepts: You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists.
• Database-Savvy: Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins.
• Cloud Infrastructure Expert: Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
• Customer-Centric: Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability

Benefits

• Perks of Working with Us
• Competitive contract rate
• Work from anywhere
• Flexible hours—get the work done on your schedule
• High ownership and autonomy
• Fast-moving team that loves to build, learn, and grow