Remote Staff Full-Stack Engineer (TypeScript/Next.js)

Emergent Software; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Emergent Staffing is seeking a Staff Product Engineer for a fully remote, direct-hire role. You will work closely with the CTO, product leadership, and a distributed engineering team to shape architecture, scale the product, and raise the bar for the team.

You’ll stay hands-on while setting technical standards and mentoring engineers. The role emphasizes architecture, reliability, and AI-assisted development within a fast-growing software company, with collaboration across U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time as a Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leader.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience in a startup or growth-stage environment owning outcomes.
• Strong database fundamentals: schema design, transactions, locking, query performance, and data integrity.
• Experience making major architecture decisions and explaining trade-offs.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex ideas to non-technical audiences.
• Comfort operating with high autonomy outside a traditional Agile or Scrum framework.
• A thoughtful approach to AI tools that boosts productivity without sacrificing ownership, oversight, or quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and design of complex, mission-critical systems across the full stack.
• Partner with the CTO to define and execute the long-term engineering strategy.
• Translate business strategy into practical technical roadmaps, and respectfully push back when there's a better approach.
• Guide data modeling and system design with a focus on scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Strengthen reliability through monitoring, service-level objectives, incident response, and blameless postmortems with measurable follow-through.
• Turn manual work (deployments, data fixes, reporting, reviews, documentation) into automated, scalable systems.
• Ensure systems meet security, privacy, audit, and compliance requirements for sensitive data.
• Set engineering standards and lead design and code reviews without becoming a bottleneck.
• Mentor engineers to grow their technical judgment, ownership, and problem-solving.
• Take on cross-functional technical challenges that lack a clear owner and drive them to completion.
• Build alignment across U.S. and international engineering teams, and represent engineering with product and executive leadership.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Inngest

Job description

Emergent Staffing is seeking a Staff Product Engineer for a fully remote, direct-hire role. You will work closely with the CTO, product leadership, and a distributed engineering team to shape architecture, scale the product, and raise the bar for the team.

You’ll stay hands-on while setting technical standards and mentoring engineers. The role emphasizes architecture, reliability, and AI-assisted development within a fast-growing software company, with collaboration across U.S.