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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 we’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help drive it.

📹 See what we’re building

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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 scrappy, and Be the Customer.

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

• 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

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