Senior Staff Engineer — Admin Experience (Full-Stack)

Envoy; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Envoy is seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer to own meaningful product areas end-to-end at our San Francisco HQ. You’ll work across frontend and backend, translating complex problems into simple, high-quality solutions while collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape scalable platforms.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, architecture input, and building robust experiences for administrators and end users alike.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience building production software with fullstack or cross-stack contributions.
• Backend experience building and consuming APIs (RESTful and/or GraphQL), with production exposure to TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, and/or Ruby on Rails.
• Experience designing relational schemas and working with PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with Git/GitHub and CI/CD workflows.
• A product mindset — you care deeply about usability, performance, and measurable impact.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering partners.
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and taking ownership to drive outcomes.
• Experience building or integrating identity and authentication systems, including SCIM, SSO, OAuth, and SAML.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality, scalable features across the full stack — frontend UI, backend services, and APIs.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver thoughtful, user-centered solutions.
• Design and evolve backend systems: APIs, data models, and services consumed by web and mobile clients.
• Build performant, accessible frontend experiences using React and modern web technologies.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, shared components, and engineering standards across the stack.
• Design and optimize relational data models (Postgres) and improve system performance and observability.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement of engineering quality.
• Own features end-to-end, from discovery and design through launch and iteration.
• Build intuitive administrator experiences for managing users, access, permissions, identity, and authentication across complex organizations.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Fullstack engineering

REST/GraphQL APIs

PostgreSQL schemas

Git/GitHub & CI/CD

Product mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Identity & authentication systems

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

React

TypeScript/Java/Kotlin/Ruby on Rails

Job description

Envoy is seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer to own meaningful product areas end-to-end at our San Francisco HQ. You’ll work across frontend and backend, translating complex problems into simple, high-quality solutions while collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape scalable platforms.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, architecture input, and building robust experiences for administrators and end users alike.