Staff Software Engineer: Lead Architecture & Scale

Shine; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Shine is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership within a product engineering team while remaining hands‑on. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and own the long‑term health of our platform, focusing on delivering high‑quality software.

You’ll design scalable, event‑driven systems, REST APIs, and modern microservices in TypeScript. Expect collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering to ship customer value while advancing AI‑driven tooling and

Formación

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Technical leadership without direct people management responsibilities.
• Strong experience with TypeScript (Node.js/JavaScript also considered).
• Experience designing and building event‑driven architectures and microservices.
• Strong understanding of REST API design, ownership, and lifecycle management.
• Experience building and operating applications on AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Demonstrated ability to make architecture decisions and take long‑term ownership of technical solutions.
• Passion for code quality through testing, reviews, engineering standards, and mentoring.
• Genuine interest in financial, accounting, or business software domains.
• Enthusiastic adopter of AI engineering tools, with practical experience using AI in day‑to‑day software development.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the technical direction of a product area, balancing immediate delivery with long‑term platform health.
• Design and build scalable event‑driven systems and microservices.
• Own the architecture, design, and evolution of REST APIs.
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions that support growth, maintainability, and reliability.
• Develop primarily in TypeScript (Node.js), writing clean, well‑tested, production‑ready code.
• Drive engineering best practices through code reviews, technical standards, and mentoring.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver customer value.
• Champion software quality, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Use modern AI‑assisted engineering tools to improve productivity across coding, debugging, testing, and design.
• Continuously evaluate new technologies and practices that improve developer experience and product quality.

Conocimientos

TypeScript

Node.js

Event‑driven architectures

Microservices

REST APIs

AWS

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Technical leadership

Code quality & testing

Mentoring

AI in software engineering

Herramientas

NestJS

Descripción del empleo

Shine is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership within a product engineering team while remaining hands‑on. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and own the long‑term health of our platform, focusing on delivering high‑quality software.

You’ll design scalable, event‑driven systems, REST APIs, and modern microservices in TypeScript. Expect collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering to ship customer value while advancing AI‑driven tooling and