Staff Fullstack Engineer

Vendelux LLC.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing software company in New York is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical features and infrastructure changes. Ideal candidates should have over 10 years of experience in complex applications, expertise in Python and Typescript, and a collaborative spirit. This full-time position offers a hybrid work model with an expectation of four days in office. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers and defining the technical strategy, making it a pivotal role in the company's expansion.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language.
• Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development.
• Nice-to-have: Previous startup experience.

Responsibilities

• Be the technical owner for features end-to-end.
• Collaborate with operations and revenue teams for feature delivery.
• Mentor a growing team of engineers.

Skills

Experience with Python

Experience with Typescript

Strong written and verbal skills

Judgment on technical debt

Use of modern AI tools

Tools

AWS

GCP

MySQL

Postgres

Django

React

Job description

Vendelux helps companies discover the best events. Event marketers are the unsung heroes of successful companies. From generating leads to building world‑class brands, event marketers make magic happen throughout the year. Vendelux is here to help maximize the impact of all the events that a company sponsors and attends.

We are a Series A SaaS company and provide the system of record for event marketing. Our software platform provides proprietary insights that helps high‑growth companies find the highest ROI events, conferences and trade shows to attend and sponsor. We have built an AI‑powered platform that customers describe as an event marketer’s dream.

Vendelux was founded in 2021, and our recent $14 million Series A was led by FirstMark, whose portfolio includes companies like Shopify, Pinterest, Discord, Airbnb, Draft Kings, Carta and Justworks (amongst others). Our leadership team includes alumni from Bain, ZoomInfo, Shutterstock, Compass, ModernLoop, Forter, Zulilly, NewtonX.

Data‑driven marketers have plenty of tools to optimize their digital ad spend and verify that their ads showed where they were supposed to. We build the same kinds of tools, but for data‑driven event marketers, who’ve previously been limited to scanning conference badges at their booth.

We’re growing, and looking for Staff Software Engineers to ship critical features and make key drive key infrastructure changes.

This is a full‑time position based out of NYC. We have a NYC HQ, and our preference is to have engineers come in a hybrid set up with an expectation of 4 days in office. It reports directly to our Head of Engineering.

As a Staff Engineer at Vendelux, you will help shape the technical strategy for our products and systems.

Scope of Responsibilities

• Be the technical owner for features end‑to‑end, including the systems that power our data platforms and best‑in‑class web application
• Ship high quality, secure, and well‑tested software that scales as highly distributed systems, using incremental deliveries based on data driven prioritization and decisions
• Solve interesting and challenging technical problems, coordinating technical roadmap deliveries across our product team and front end engineers
• Collaborate with our operations and revenue teams, as well as our users to respond, react, and plan feature delivery based on user feedback and analytics
• Identify opportunities to work across our stack, and areas of the business, to help meet the needs of a quickly scaling business and product
• Work closely with our leadership team to define our product roadmap and technical strategy, and continuously improve our development process and engineering practices
• Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross‑functional agile team
• Mentor a growing team of engineers through pair programming and code reviews, on performant, scalable engineering principles, with a focus on iterative delivery

Tech Stack

• Frontend: Typescript, React, MUI/Shadcn, Node.js
• Backend: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP
• Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake
• Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor / Claude Code

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript
• Track record of shaping and shipping valuable features
• Track record of driving high‑leverage improvements to infrastructure and process
• Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate
• Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast‑paced work
• Nice‑to‑have: Previous startup experience
• Nice‑to‑have: DevOps or platform/infrastructure experience (or deep interest)
• Nice‑to‑have: Experience with AI prototyping tools like v0, Lovable, Replit, etc.

Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above and that’s ok! We are open to great people from non‑traditional backgrounds.

Vendelux is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.