Platform & Scale Architect - Senior Staff Engineer

Storm2; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Storm2’s client, a Series B FinTech, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to scale a platform central to how institutional investors manage private market data. You’ll influence architecture, drive technical direction, and mentor engineers across multiple teams in a hands-on, high-impact role.

You’ll lead large-scale initiatives spanning domains, improve reliability, security, and performance, and partner with product, design, and data teams to deliver complex features from concept to production.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling software products.
• Strong background in full-stack engineering, distributed systems, or large-scale backend architecture.
• Experience owning complex technical projects with meaningful business impact.
• A history of influencing engineering direction across teams without relying on management authority.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Evidence of making pragmatic architectural decisions while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale technical initiatives that span multiple teams.
• Defining technical direction for core platform and backend systems.
• Making key decisions around scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Partnering with product, design, and data teams to bring complex features from concept through production.
• Identifying and tackling technical debt, platform bottlenecks, and infrastructure challenges.
• Mentoring engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical leadership.
• Raising engineering standards across the organization through best practices and thoughtful decision-making.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Technical leadership

Cross-team influence

Communication skills

Job description

Storm2’s client, a Series B FinTech, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to scale a platform central to how institutional investors manage private market data. You’ll influence architecture, drive technical direction, and mentor engineers across multiple teams in a hands-on, high-impact role.

You’ll lead large-scale initiatives spanning domains, improve reliability, security, and performance, and partner with product, design, and data teams to deliver complex features from concept to production.