Staff Software Engineer

Saasgroup; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible time off

Global team

Job summary

Saasgroup is hiring a Staff Engineer for a remote-first distributed rendering platform that helps dynamic, JavaScript-heavy websites become crawlable and indexable at scale.

The role blends hands-on contribution with architectural leadership, coaching teams, shaping technical direction, and aligning delivery with long-term health across squads. You will work with a small, global team to drive performance, reliability, and scalability while mentoring engineers and influencing product decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and shipping complex distributed systems.
• Experience leading large-scale technical initiatives that simplified core systems.
• Deep backend expertise: TypeScript/Node.js or Go, plus familiarity with cloud.
• Systems thinking connects product goals with architecture.
• Coaching mindset and strong communication to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core systems with high standards in code quality, testing, and design.
• Drive cross-team architectural initiatives toward simplicity, scalability, and testability.
• Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, and XP practices.
• Design solutions for performance, reliability, and distributed rendering.
• Spot risks early, resolve bottlenecks, and establish defaults for speed and stability.
• Champion TDD, pair programming, and continuous delivery.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Technical leadership

TypeScript/Node.js

Golang

AWS

Systems thinking

Coaching mindset

Communication

Tools

AWS

Cloud-native infrastructure

Job description

Role overview

This Staff Engineer position is part of a small, remote-first team building a distributed rendering platform that helps dynamic, JavaScript-heavy websites become crawlable and indexable by search engines at scale. The role combines hands-on contribution with architectural leadership and coaching, shaping technical direction across systems and squads.

Responsibilities

• Contribute directly to core systems while modelling high standards in code quality, testing, and design.
• Drive cross-team architectural initiatives that move systems toward simplicity, scalability, and testability.
• Coach and mentor engineers at all levels through pairing, design reviews, and hands-on guidance in extreme programming practices.
• Design solutions to deep technical challenges in performance, reliability, and distributed rendering.
• Spot risks early, resolve systemic bottlenecks, and establish defaults that let teams move quickly and confidently.
• Champion sustainable practices such as TDD, pair programming, and continuous delivery to balance speed and stability.
• Partner with product and leadership to align short-term delivery with long-term technical health.

Requirements

• Ten or more years designing and shipping complex, distributed systems.
• Track record leading large-scale technical initiatives that simplified and strengthened core systems.
• Deep expertise in modern backend development, ideally TypeScript/Node.js or Golang, with familiarity in AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Systems-thinking ability that connects product goals with technical architecture.
• Coaching mindset, strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences, and a bias for continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• Experience in SEO, web performance, or large-scale rendering infrastructure.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote with flexible time off and autonomy in how problems are solved.
• High-trust, small, friendly team culture with global colleagues across many countries.
• Access to an internal network of SaaS professionals for knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Location-adjusted, transparent pay ranges shared in writing before the first interview.