Staff Product Engineer (Remote) — Shape Up & Scale

Emergent Staffing, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Emergent Staffing, LLC is partnering with a fully remote, fast-growing software company to hire a Staff Product Engineer. This role works directly with the CTO, product leadership, and a distributed engineering team to shape architecture, scale the product, and grow the company's internal engineering capabilities.

You'll stay hands-on while setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar for the team around you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time as a Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leader.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and design of complex, mission-critical systems across the full stack.
• Partner with the CTO to define and execute the long-term engineering strategy.
• Translate business strategy into practical technical roadmaps, and respectfully push back when there's a better approach.
• Guide data modeling and system design with a focus on scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Strengthen reliability through monitoring, service-level objectives, incident response, and blameless postmortems with measurable follow-through.
• Turn manual work (deployments, data fixes, reporting, reviews, documentation) into automated, scalable systems.
• Ensure systems meet security, privacy, audit, and compliance requirements for sensitive data.
• Set engineering standards and lead design and code reviews without becoming a bottleneck.
• Mentor engineers to grow their technical judgment, ownership, and problem-solving.
• Take on cross-functional technical challenges that lack a clear owner and drive them to completion.
• Build alignment across U.S. and international engineering teams, and represent engineering with product and executive leadership.

Skills

8+ years engineering leadership

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Architecture design

Communication

Tools

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Event-driven systems

Kafka

Temporal

Inngest

Job description

Emergent Staffing, LLC is partnering with a fully remote, fast-growing software company to hire a Staff Product Engineer. This role works directly with the CTO, product leadership, and a distributed engineering team to shape architecture, scale the product, and grow the company's internal engineering capabilities.

You'll stay hands-on while setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar for the team around you.