Senior Staff Engineer - Tech Architect & Mentor (Remote)

JobTeaser; Paris; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Lunch vouchers

Holiday bonus

Public transport allowance

Remote-friendly

Job summary

JobTeaser is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical direction across three squads. You will lead architectural decisions, collaborate with engineering leadership, and write code in critical areas to raise the team's performance and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, run backend communities, and represent JobTeaser in the wider tech community, while fostering a culture of craftsmanship and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, led or influenced multiple teams.
• Strong backend skills in Ruby or similar ecosystem.
• Experience with distributed systems, databases and messaging (Kafka).
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems with measurable improvements.
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the platform architecture and technical roadmap.
• Lead cross-squad technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Contribute code to critical components and improve tooling and monitoring.
• Represent engineering externally through talks, meetups, and open source.

Skills

Ruby backend

Distributed systems

Kafka

REST & gRPC

AWS & Kubernetes

Code quality & testing

Mentoring

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Algolia

gRPC

Kafka

React

TypeScript

Next.js

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

JobTeaser is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical direction across three squads. You will lead architectural decisions, collaborate with engineering leadership, and write code in critical areas to raise the team's performance and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, run backend communities, and represent JobTeaser in the wider tech community, while fostering a culture of craftsmanship and continuous improvement.