Senior Staff Engineer (Up to 150K USD annually)

LawnStarter; São Paulo; Remote; BRL 644,815 - 806,019; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from anywhere

Flexible hours

High ownership and autonomy

Job summary

A growing outdoor services company is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join their remote LATAM team. The role involves leading engineering projects, mentoring junior engineers, and enhancing system architecture while working with a modern tech stack. Candidates should have extensive experience in both server-side and client-side development and be familiar with cloud services. This position offers flexibility and a competitive salary range of $120K to $150K annually.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a principal or senior engineering role.
• Deep understanding of TDD, RESTful APIs, and MVC frameworks.
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on technical strategy and engineering standards.
• Lead initiatives aligning with architectural goals.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
• Enhance system performance and security.

Skills

Server-side development

Client-side development

Cloud development

Test-Driven Development

SQL and NoSQL databases

Security best practices

System architecture design

Engineering standards alignment

Tools

AWS

PHP (Laravel)

JavaScript (React, React Native, Vue)

Job description

Senior Staff Engineer (Up to 150K USD annually)

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Base pay range

$120,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr

Senior Staff Engineer

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 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, 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

What We’re Looking For:

• Principal engineer, lead full‑stack engineer, or similar senior role with relevant experience.
• Highly skilled in both server‑side and client‑side software development.
• 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).
• Strong foundation in computer science concepts such as Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures.
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases; understands CRUD, indexes, and joins.
• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and 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 LawnStarter are expected to embody our core values: Be data‑driven, Get shit done, People are critical, Challenge the status quo, Be scrappy, and Be the Customer.

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.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

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