Senior Staff Engineer: Cloud Architecture & Tech Leader

WealthCounsel, L.L.C

Jersey City (NJ)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

WealthCounsel, L.L.C. in Jersey City is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the technical direction across the product team, writing production code and guiding architectural choices. You will partner with leadership to shape strategy, ensure quality, and mentor engineers while advancing cloud-native, event-driven solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on contribution, cross-team collaboration, and driving best practices in design, testing, and observability within a fast-growing organization.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Deep expertise designing and building cloud applications on AWS (serverless and event-driven).
Expert proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js.
Demonstrated technical influence beyond your own team (standards, tooling, practices).
Experience mentoring and coaching developers.
Experience with Claude Code, Copilot or similar agentic coding tools.
AWS Certified Developer - Associate and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction for your product team and its portfolio.
Serve as the primary technical leader, guiding design and implementation.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

AWS

Architecture leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Claude Code

Copilot

AWS CDK

Terraform

Job description

The role emphasizes hands-on contribution, cross-team collaboration, and driving best practices in design, testing, and observability within a fast-growing organization.

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