Staff Engineer (Virtual, Full-time)

WEALTHCOUNSEL LLC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

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

WealthCounsel brings together the best - the best drafting software and legal tools, the best educators, the best support staff, and the best collegial community - to cultivate the growth and success of its member attorneys and their clients. We recently added another "best" to our toolbelt when we were awarded the 2025 Best Place to Work in the Cloud. The Cloud Awards is one of the longest-running awards platforms of its kind and recognizes the latest achievements and innovations in cloud computing.

We're committed to fostering a positive work environment supported by competitive benefits (see below) and a culture of collaboration. As we continue to expand, we are seeking a motivated and driven Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team.

Job Summary

Staff Engineers are technical leaders whose impact reaches beyond a single team. You are accountable for the technical direction of your product team and take the lead on architecture where the problems are hardest, the requirements are least defined, and the stakes are highest. You write code alongside your team and grow the engineers around you. You partner with Engineering and Product leadership so that what we build, who builds it, and why all stay in sync. You are the technical leader your development team works with day to day, and you turn to the Solutions Architects for coaching, guidance, and escalation

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for your assigned development team and its product portfolio, including how work is broken down into technical tasks and implemented, consistent with the architectural implementations defined by the Solutions Architects.

• Serve as your development team's primary technical leader, carrying architectural guidance into the team's day-to-day design and implementation work.

• Define the technical vision for the systems and product teams you own, and get buy-in from Engineering leadership, Product Management, and other teams.

• Drive technical strategy: build-vs-buy analysis and recommendations, platform investments, and major refactors.

• Decide on technical quality standards for your product team, and elevate engineering practice through standards, tooling, and methodologies consistent with those set by the Solutions Architects.

• Review and approve technical design drafts from developers in your product team, and resolve escalations about technical direction.

• Stay hands-on: write production code, build prototypes, and personally take on the hardest problems in your product team.

• Coach developers as a player-coach through code review, pairing, and design feedback, and give Engineering Managers technical feedback on individual developers' growth.

• Identify cross-system risks and opportunities, and raise architectural concerns to the Solutions Architects.

• Represent technical feasibility and risk to leadership in strategic conversations.

• Align with leadership on technical priorities, capacity, and individual development of developers within your product team.

• Participate in hiring by evaluating candidates against the technical bar.

• Lead incident response and ensure remediation is designed to prevent recurrence.

Competencies

Technical Craft

• Deep, hands-on expertise across multiple systems in our stack, including TypeScript/Node.js, Vue.js, AWS serverless services and databases, and AWS CDK.

• Sets the example for code quality, testing, and observability across teams.

Systems Thinking

• Participates in the design of systems that span team boundaries: event-driven integration across applications and components, data ownership across various data stores, and migration paths from one data store to another.

• Identifies downstream consequences and cross-system risks that others overlook.

Product & Business Acumen

• Weighs build-vs-buy, platform investment, and refactoring against business priorities.

• Frames technical risk and feasibility in business terms for leadership.

Collaboration & Communication

• Builds consensus without positional authority.

• Writes clear technical designs and RFCs, and coaches developers at every level.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.Track record of leading cross-system architecture.

• Deep expertise designing and building cloud applications on AWS, including serverless and event-driven architectures.

• Expert proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js.

• Demonstrated technical influence beyond your own team, such as standards, tooling, or practices adopted by other teams.

• Experience mentoring and coaching developers.

• Experience with Claude Code, Copilot, or other agentic coding tools.

• AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02/DVA-C03) certification.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) certification.

• Experience with infrastructure as code at scale using AWS CDK or Terraform.

• Experience migrating legacy systems to microservices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing generative-AI features on Amazon Bedrock.

• Experience with Vue.js and Storybook at the design-system level.

• Experience with identity and access patterns using Auth0 or other IDPs.

Salary

The salary range listed reflects the total on target earnings for this position (base salary plus bonus).

At WealthCounsel, we are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Come work with us!