Staff Software Engineer

Reserv; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Generous PTO

Family leave

Work from almost anywhere

Apple laptop and large second monitor

Job summary

Reserv is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the technology and platform, leading large-scale projects from front-end to back-end. You will own features end-to-end with a focus on scalable APIs, developer experience, and customer integrations.

You will collaborate with product, design, and sales teams, mentor junior engineers, and communicate complex ideas with clarity to executives. This role emphasizes ownership, creativity, and thoughtful engineering in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as an individual contributor with experience using modern programming languages and front-end frameworks.
• Proven ability to ship high-quality products, including side-projects or open-source repos.
• Passion for building intuitive technology and a thirst for learning.
• Ability to think through customer requirements and prioritize must-have vs nice-to-have vs irrelevant.
• Willingness and ability to take over tasks outside your core competency.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision around delivering business-impacting goals.
• Lead large cross-functional, high-impact projects and mitigate risk.
• Communicate clearly with executive stakeholders.
• Build frontend and backend components across the stack (Rails, Postgres, TS/React, GraphQL, NextJS, AWS).
• Ship code that improves developer experience and product integrations.
• Collaborate with product ops, design, and sales; mentor junior engineers.
• Write precise specifications and contribute to a growing engineering culture.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Executive communication

Cross-functional delivery

Mentoring

Independent work

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Postgres

Typescript

React

GraphQL

NextJS

AWS

Job description

About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Reserv, you’ll be at the heart of our growth journey, shaping the future of our technology and platform. You are a passionate engineer with proven successfully leading and executing on large projects. Reserv will be depending on you and your team to build a beautiful, powerful product from a user-story driven front-end all the way and a scalable back-end to robust APIs that make it easy to connect us with other next-generation solutions. For this role, we are seeking engineers with strong full-stack software engineering skills with a curiosity for systems, a proclivity for end-to-end ownership of features, and an ability to both run independently and collaborate well with fellow engineers and business-side teammates. If you are ready to mold the vision for Reserv’s technology, join us on the journey.

What we need

• Excel at defining the vision around delivering business-impacting goals
• I rapidly deliver against large, cross-funtional, high-impact projects, proactively identifying and mititgigate risk.
• I can clearly communicate with executive level stakeholders both internally and externally
• Work with our tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Typescript, React, GraphQL, NextJS, AWS
• Help distill the core interactions a customer of Reserv will need to be successful in using our product, from the homepage, to the developer dashboard, to documentation centers and SDKs
• Ship code that improves the developer experience, including the homepage, developer dashboard, Connect, SDKs, and the documentation center
• Build frontend and backend components that improve the Reserv integration experience
• Commit on your first day, and deploy code continuously
• Support developers at customer companies
• As we scale our product & engineering teams, collaborate closely with our product ops, design, and sales teams, as well as mentor junior engineers
• Communicate ideas and specifications through detailed, precise writing
• Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team
• Support the engineering function globally
• Enjoy and have fun being creative and thinking outside of the box. You will need to draw on analogous situations you’ve worked on before, but we are not traversing well-traveled roads. “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”

Requirements

• 10 years of experience as an individual contributor with experience using modern programming languages and front-end frameworks
• Have a strong demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products, both at work and outside of work. We love engineers that build side-projects or contribute to open-source repos
• A passion for building intuitive technology and a thirst for learning
• Able to think through customer requirements and prioritize what is a must-have, nice-to-have, or irrelevant
• Have a strong technical skillset but also the willingness and ability to take over tasks outside your core competency

Benefits

• Generous health-insurance package with nationwide coverage, vision, & dental
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
• Competitive PTO policy – we want our employees fresh, healthy, happy and energized
• Generous family leave policy
• Work from almost anywhere to facilitate your work life balance
• Cool, functional swag
• Apple laptop, large second monitor, and other quality-of-life equipment you may want

At Reserv, we value diversity in backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences and believe that diversity in viewpoints and critical thinking drives innovation, first-principles thinking, and success. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage those from all walks of life to apply. If you believe you are a good fit for this role, we would love to hear from you!