Staff Engineer

Vantageanalytics; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Annual company retreats

Remote‑first culture

Job summary

Vantageanalytics is seeking a Staff Engineer to set technical strategy across multiple teams and deliver through hands‑on implementation and broad leadership. The role owns a multi‑team technical roadmap, clears cross‑team dependencies, and builds frameworks to keep teams aligned without constant escalation.

The work spans the full stack, from frontend through data infrastructure, defining service levels and observability.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional software development experience, with strong design and architecture background.
• Deep knowledge of a full production stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure, data).
• Experience owning multi‑quarter roadmaps across multiple teams and aligning leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of major technical initiatives in parallel, remaining hands‑on.
• Set technical direction balancing near‑term delivery with long‑term sustainability and consistent architecture across teams.
• Own and prioritize technical debt as a program aligned with quarterly goals and product commitments.
• Spread context and best practices via architecture office hours, learning sessions, and shared docs.
• Mentor engineers at all levels, enabling growth and reducing gatekeeping.
• Act as a quality gatekeeper through code reviews and testing strategy while developing others.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Roadmap planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

CI tooling

AWS

Job description

Role overview

A Staff Engineer position focused on setting technical strategy across multiple teams and delivering it through hands‑on implementation and broad technical leadership. The role owns a multi‑team technical roadmap, clears cross‑team dependencies before they become bottlenecks, and builds the frameworks and processes that keep teams aligned without constant escalation. The work spans the full stack, from frontend through data infrastructure, and uses that breadth to define service‑level expectations and observability standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of several significant technical initiatives in parallel, staying hands‑on in code and architecture.
• Provide technical direction that balances near‑term delivery against long‑term sustainability, and keep architectural decisions consistent across teams.
• Own technical debt as an explicit program: surface what matters, build the business and developer‑experience case, and land it in quarterly goals alongside product commitments.
• Use internal forums such as architecture office hours, learning sessions, and shared documentation to spread context, reinforce best practices, and keep teams aligned to the roadmap.
• Mentor engineers across the department, including senior engineers, in partnership with their managers, and create growth opportunities rather than absorbing the most interesting work.
• Act as a quality gatekeeper through active code review and testing strategy, while deliberately developing other engineers into effective reviewers and gatekeepers.

Requirements

• 9+ years of professional experience with a strong record in software development, testing, design, and architecture.
• Deep knowledge of a full production stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data), with the ability to reason about how choices in one layer surface as problems in another.
• Track record of owning a multi‑quarter technical roadmap that spanned more than one team, including securing buy‑in from peers and senior leadership and driving it to completion.
• Experience managing technical debt as a quantified, prioritized program of work with leadership buy‑in.
• Hands‑on experience designing and operating B2B API integrations, including authentication, rate limiting, retries, idempotency, versioning, and contract evolution.
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers through architectural thinking, not only code review.
• Experience with CI tooling, Docker, and at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience evaluating and rolling out developer tooling, including AI‑assisted development tools, with a clear‑eyed view of trade‑offs.
• Deep Python and Django experience building production services.
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience enabling other engineers to take on review and leadership responsibilities through pairing and design review.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote‑first working model with flexible location across multiple time zones.
• Home office support provided to team members.
• Annual company retreats to support connection and collaboration.