Senior Staff Engineer (Up to 150K USD annually)

LawnStarter; São Paulo; Teletrabalho; BRL 621 439 - 776 799; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Competitive salary (120K - 150K USD annually)

Work from anywhere

Flexible hours

Resumo da oferta

A leading outdoor services platform is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead technical initiatives and contribute to system architecture. This role offers full autonomy, remote work, and flexible hours. You will mentor team members and drive projects to improve the platform. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in server-side and client-side development, cloud infrastructure, and a passion for building quality customer-driven solutions. Join this fast-moving team and help shape the future of outdoor home services.

Qualificações

• Experienced as a principal engineer or lead full-stack engineer.
• Highly skilled in server-side and client-side software development.
• Familiar with AWS Lambda, ECS, and EKS for cloud infrastructure.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate on system architecture and technical strategy.
• Lead technical initiatives across teams and maintain platform-level components.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and guidance.

Conhecimentos

Server-side development

Client-side development

Cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)

Test Driven Development (TDD)

RESTful APIs

React and MVC frameworks

SQL and NoSQL databases

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Senior Staff Engineer

We're urgently hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to join our growing 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

• 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

• Competitive contract rate from 120K - 150K USD annually, depending on skills and experience
• 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

All team members at LawnStater are expected to embody our core values which are: Be data-driven, Get Shit Done, People Are Critical, Challenge the Status Quo, Be the Customer, and AI or Annihilation.

VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER: Please upload your English resume—applications without it will not be considered.

LawnStarter is building the future of outdoor home services. Want to help us shape it? Apply now and let's grow together.