Senior Staff Software Engineer, Screenings & Verifications

United States Digital Space LLC; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development allowance

Competitive cash and equity packages

100% medical, dental, vision coverage

Fertility/adoption/parential planning?

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Engineer in Denver to shape technical architecture for screening products and to drive scalable, reliable systems. You will own end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Design, Product, Data, and other teams to ship impactful features.

This role emphasizes ownership, cross-functional influence, and delivering high-quality software at scale in a regulated domain with rapid growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software development experience and 3+ years in a project leadership role.
• Deep expertise in backend development (Ruby/Node.js) with frontend skills (JavaScript/React) for API development and integrations.
• Experience building scalable systems with automated testing, observability, and high performance.
• Strong ownership from feature design through production release.
• Proven ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, project management, and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own development of the product from ideation, design, implementation, to release.
• Collaborate with Design, Product, Data, and others to instrument and deploy new product experiments and ship impactful features.
• Define and lead technical initiatives to enable growth at scale and address technical debt.
• Provide mentorship to engineers on the team and across the organization.
• Spread development best practices through knowledge sharing and documentation.
• Partner with product and engineering management in quarterly and annual planning.
• Ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of our services.

Skills

Backend development

Frontend development

Leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership & delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Ruby

Node.js

React

Testing & observability

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Engineer in Denver to shape technical architecture for screening products and to drive scalable, reliable systems. You will own end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Design, Product, Data, and other teams to ship impactful features.

This role emphasizes ownership, cross-functional influence, and delivering high-quality software at scale in a regulated domain with rapid growth.