Staff Software Engineer

Vantage; New York (NY); Remote; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help modernize technology and finance interactions. This role involves mentoring a team, driving feature development, and making critical architectural decisions at Vantage. With a remote-friendly workspace and competitive salary, this opportunity is inviting for candidates with strong technical backgrounds and a passion for customer-centric solutions.

Benefits

Health, Dental, Vision coverage

Meaningful Equity

Flexible PTO

Tools provided for development

Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall experience with 5+ years leading an engineering team.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP) preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a preference for simple, scalable designs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership on feature discovery and implementation.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers in building product features.
• Take full ownership of end-to-end feature development.

Skills

Ruby

Rails

Frontend Development

Backend Development

Leadership

Education

BA/BS degree

Job description

Do the best work of your career and join in our mission to modernize the interaction between technology, finance & management organizations.

The customer is at the top of everything we do. We work on theirbehalf, and through every interaction with them we aim to respect,delight, and earn trust.

Customers rely on the data from Vantage to be authentic to makecritical business decisions. It's imperative that our platform,employees, and documentation authentically and accuratelyrepresent themselves.

Leave Everything on the Field

Vantage will not fail for lack of employee engagement or effort.It's expected that all team members put their full effort into thesuccess of the company.

Be Kind

It should go without saying that kindness is important. Be kind toyourself, one another, and externally.

Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions arereversible and do not need extensive study.

Iterate and Learn

Vantage's superpower is our ability to execute, iterate, andlearn.

Informed by Data

Data and metrics are a component of everything we do and should bereviewed frequently. Everyone should understand the metrics forthe company and their role.

Celebrate the Wins

We take time to celebrate the wins. We recognize where peopledeliver results and ensure that they're appropriately celebrated.

Write It Down

We are intentionally a written culture and believe clear, writtencommunication is extremely important for the success of thecompany.

What We Offer

Remote Friendly

The majority of the Vantage team works remotely. Our meetings and culture are setup accordingly.

Health, Dental, Vision and 401(k)

Vantage provides every full time employee with 100% coverage on Health, Dental and Vision. Employees can also participate in our company 401(k) plan.

Each team member is given a large amount of responsibility and as a result are compensated accordingly.

Meaningful Equity

Be vested in the long term success of the company with meaningful equity. Ensure your hard work is rewarded.

Flexible PTO

Flexible time off is given to all full time employees. Take off, recharge and come back to hit the ground running.

Tools

Need a laptop or monitor to get the job done? We'll make sure you have all of the equipment you need to get the job done.

Current Openings

Staff Software Engineer

Location

USA (Remote), New York, NY (Hybrid)

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Compensation

About Vantage:

Our current customers include Square, Aflac, PBS, FanDuel, PlanetScale, Starburst, Vercel, and many more.

Vantage has raised $25M in total venture capital, most recently a $21M Series A financing round in March of 2023. Our investors include outstanding, top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz , Scale Venture Partners, Matthew Prince (Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare), Calvin French Owen (Co-Founder, Segment), Ben and Moisey Uretsky (Co-Founders, DigitalOcean), Stephanie and Nat Friedman (CEO, Github), Julia Lipton, Brianne Kimmel and others.

About The Role:

You will work with a tight team of product engineers who are responsible for shipping features across the Vantage product. This includes the core reporting experience, new provider integrations and onboarding/billing. The team is fast paced and is constantly shipping to production.

What You Will Do:

Collaborate with Product & Engineering leadership and founders on feature discovery, ideation, and implementation.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers in building product features.

Define and guide technical architecture decisions to support future scaling of Vantage.

Take full ownership of end-to-end feature development, including tracking and reporting on customer impact.

Participate in customer calls with design and product teams to gain direct insight into user needs.

What We're Looking For:

A product-oriented software engineer with a passion for listening to and delighting customers

10+ years of overall experience, including 5+ years of experience leading a team of engineers building and delivering features

Enjoy being a generalist working on both the frontend and backend

Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.

Someone who has led impactful engineering projects and built architectures that operate at scale

Expertise in Ruby and Rails

BA/BS degree and 3-5 years of equivalent working experience

Someone excited to deliver quickly and hold a high degree of responsibility.

Bonus Points:

Monitoring and observability expertise

Experience building and deploying to cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)

The estimated annual US base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $230,000. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and education stipends.

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