Senior Staff Software Engineer - Architect & Delivery Lead

Career Launch; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Launch is accepting applications for Staff Software Engineer opportunities with partner employers in New York. Career Launch works with experienced professionals pursuing full-time roles and provides recruiters with a single profile to review across searches.

These roles require senior engineers who can lead design and delivery of reliable software systems, with a track record of measurable results and strong communication across product, data, design, and go-to-market teams.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping and operating complex software in a senior engineering role.
• Strong system design and technical judgment.
• Ability to lead ambiguous work from problem definition to production results.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader for a core software product and the systems behind it.
• Own architecture and technical decisions for high-impact products and platform capabilities.
• Translate business and product goals into pragmatic engineering plans and milestones.
• Build, review, and improve production systems with attention to reliability, security, and performance.
• Raise engineering standards through design reviews, documentation, testing, and operational discipline.
• Mentor engineers and improve collaboration across product, data, design, and go-to-market teams.
• Use metrics and incident learning to prioritize technical investment and reduce recurring risk.

Skills

System design

Technical judgment

Written communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Career Launch is accepting applications for Staff Software Engineer opportunities with partner employers in New York. Career Launch works with experienced professionals pursuing full-time roles and provides recruiters with a single profile to review across searches.

These roles require senior engineers who can lead design and delivery of reliable software systems, with a track record of measurable results and strong communication across product, data, design, and go-to-market teams.