Staff Engineer/ Tech Lead

Ideals; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first flexibility

Home workplace budget

Ukraine teammates budget

Resilient Kyiv office and coworking

Individual IT budget for equipment

Top-tier tech and AI tools

Job summary

Ideals seeks a Staff Engineer / Tech Lead to join our Engineering team. You will combine hands-on delivery with raising standards, guiding multiple teams, and supporting growth of engineers around you.

You’ll work on modernization efforts and new features, including AI-related capabilities, with assignment evolving to meet organizational needs. This role rewards engineers who enable others and shape direction collaboratively.

Qualifications

• Expert-level backend engineering skills in C# / .NET
• Solid experience with automated testing, DevOps practices, and databases
• Strong product mindset and business context understanding
• Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate with senior engineers
• Comfort with mentoring, cross-team collaboration, and team representation
• Excellent communication in English (Upper-Intermediate or higher)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver features and technical solutions within your team
• Lead modernization efforts and enable delivery of new functionality including AI-related features
• Raise backend engineering standards and practices across multiple teams
• Turn ambiguous problems into clear, actionable plans when needed
• Mentor engineers and contribute to personal development plans
• Balance hands-on delivery with enabling other engineers and processes

Skills

C# / .NET expertise

Automated testing

DevOps

Database experience

Product mindset

Autonomous work

Mentoring / leadership

English communication

Job description

Get to know us

Ideals is a global B2B SaaS product company recognized as the most highly rated and customer‑centric brand in the secure business collaboration market. Trusted by over 2,000,000 users from 300,000 companies globally, we help people run high‑stakes processes and make important decisions with less stress, higher quality, and shorter hours.

Ideals Virtual Data Room (VDR): Secure document sharing and collaboration for due diligence, fundraising, corporate reporting, licensing, clinical trials, and other complex transactions.

The role

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer / Tech Lead to join our Engineering team. In this role, you’ll combine hands‑on technical delivery with impact that extends beyond a single team: raising engineering standards, helping teams work through ambiguous problems, and supporting the growth of the engineers around you.

You’ll work as part of a team on modernization efforts and new feature initiatives, including AI‑related capabilities, and your focus and team assignment may evolve based on where the organization needs expertise most.

Impact in this role spans four areas: hands‑on project delivery, engineering excellence across the wider backend, providing direction when problems are ambiguous, and contributing to the growth of the people around you.

This role tends to be the most rewarding for engineers who enjoy being a multiplier for the people around them: unblocking teams, shaping direction together, and growing others along the way, rather than working in isolation or waiting to be told exactly what to do next.

What you will do

• Work hands‑on within your team, contributing to the design, development, and delivery of features and technical solutions

• Lead technical modernization efforts within your team while enabling delivery of new functionality, including AI‑related features

• Raise engineering standards and practices across the backend, and help solve problems shared across multiple teams

• Help teams turn ambiguous, poorly defined problems into a clear plan of action when experience or confidence is lacking

• Contribute to the growth of engineers around you through mentoring, input into personal development plans, and recommendations on skills, resources, or courses

• Balance hands‑on delivery with acting as an enabler for other engineers and processes, rather than simply directing others’ work

What you bring

• Expert‑level backend engineering skills in C# / .NET

• Solid experience with automated testing, DevOps practices, and working with databases

• A strong product mindset - understanding of the business and product context behind technical decisions

• Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate as a peer with senior engineers, without needing tasks broken down for you

• Comfort with responsibilities beyond pure technical delivery, such as mentoring, cross‑team collaboration, or representing the team on broader initiatives

• Strong communication skills and an Upper‑intermediate (B2) or higher level of English

Nice to have

• Hands‑on experience building or integrating AI‑related features

• Experience with system design and architecture‑level decision‑making

What we offer

We highly value our people, so we will empower you with all the resources and support to help you reach your full potential.

For your best work

• Remote‑first flexibility to shape your ideal workday

• Home workplace budget

• Resilient home budget for Ukraine‑based teammates

• Resilient office in Kyiv & co‑working expense coverage

• Individual IT budget for extra equipment

• Top‑tier tech and AI‑powered tools

For your growth

• Access to Ideals Academy with numerous courses

• Investment in external learning and development activities

• Guidance in Personal Development Plan creation

• Professional literature and subscriptions coverage

• Support of your passion as a speaker or writer

• Internal talent mobility opportunities

For your well‑being

• Medical insurance and Wellness Package for sport‑related activities

• Full coverage of mental health sessions for Ukrainian teammates

• Funding for sports competitions

• 20 business days of paid time off per year

• Unlimited health‑related time‑off

Extra perks

• Generous internal referral program

Our culture

Commitment, Excellence, Collaboration, Trust and Care are core values to the Ideals team. For us, these are the principles that every Idealer lives and breathes. We are on the lookout for like‑minded individuals who share our values. By doing so, we create a team where talents feel at ease and work to the best of their abilities.

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Ideals is an equal opportunity employer

Ideals is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people from all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, or citizenship.