Staff Software Engineer

Flowcode; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 280,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowcode is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help build scalable, reliable services for the Flowcode 2 application. This role combines architectural leadership and hands-on development, focusing on high-performance backend systems. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years of experience in engineering, strong API design skills, and expertise with cloud infrastructures like AWS. The position offers a salary range of up to $310k plus equity, flexible work options including remote work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems.
• Deep expertise in building high-performance, concurrent services.
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, and consistency tradeoffs.
• Proficiency in backend languages like Go, Python, C#, or Java.
• Commitment to code quality and solid grounding in design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own critical systems end-to-end, including design and deployment.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable features across frameworks.
• Drive the technical roadmap and best practices for the team.
• Collaborate with product, design, and data teams for feature delivery.
• Mentor and guide senior engineers to improve technical execution.
• Advocate for pragmatic solutions to solve complex problems.

Skills

Backend systems

API design

Cloud infrastructure

High-performance services

Collaboration

Code quality

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Location: Soho, NYC / Remote

Department: Engineering

The Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help grow and build the core platform that powers our Flowcode 2 application at scale. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, leadership, and pragmatic execution with a focus on creating and augmenting reliable, scalable, and extensible services and applications.

You’ll operate as a technical leader with in our Platform pod, growing platform capabilities, building new features and problem solving in a dynamic and challenging technical environment. While this is a hands‑on role, it requires a strong bias toward backend systems, distributed architecture and deep technical leadership. We value the ability to guide teams toward pragmatic, high‑impact solutions.

This role is ideal for an engineer who values simplicity, correctness, and pragmatism, and who can balance long‑term platform investments with immediate business needs.

What You’ll Do

• Own critical systems end‑to‑end, including design, implementation and deployment.
• Hands on designing, building, and maintaining scalable features across a modern front‑end framework and backend services.
• Architect for growth — help drive your pods’s technical roadmap and shepherd established engineering best practices.
• Collaborate across teams with product, design, and data to deliver measure, deliver and grows features quickly and iteratively.
• Mentor and guide senior engineers, raising the bar for technical execution and system design across teams.
• Balance ideal engineering with the realities of speed, customer needs, and startup resource constraints.
• Drive improvements in observability, performance, and incident response.
• Advocate for pragmatic solutions, solving the right problems with the appropriate level of complexity.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production‑grade systems, with a strong backend focus.
• Deep expertise in building high‑performance, concurrent services.
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and service‑oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, and consistency tradeoffs. Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern deployment patterns (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in several modern backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, C#, Java).
• Commitment to code quality, with solid grounding in design patterns, testing, and CI/CD.
• Strong grasp of scalability and performance, able to make informed tradeoffs between speed and correctness.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• A builder’s mentality, comfortable taking initiative and owning outcomes from design through production.
• A history of working with 20+ person engineering organizations and collaborating with Product and Design to enable feature delivery at a reasonable velocity.

How to Apply

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The current range for this role is up to $280k‑$310k plus equity.