Staff Software Engineer: Architect & Scale Leader (Remote)

SalesIntel Research, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays and leaves

Performance bonuses

Medical coverage

Company-paid training programs

Job summary

SalesIntel Research, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical anchor for the Engineering team. This is a deeply hands-on individual contributor role focused on architecture, systems design, and code quality.

You will own team service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and drive high-scale search indexing, low-latency performance, and robust API controls, while mentoring others and reducing systemic tech debt.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience owning large, ambiguous systems from design through production.
• Strong, proven architecture capability to define boundaries, data models, and standards.
• Deep expertise in backend development with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale search indexing, relevance, and low-latency queries.
• Extensive API design experience with rate limiting, throttling, quotas, and abuse prevention.
• Deep database expertise: schema design, query optimization, indexing, partitioning for high-volume workloads.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals with a bias toward code.
• Hands-on experience building and operating services on AWS.
• Experience with agentic/LLM-driven workflows is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong system design and architectural thinking, engineering leadership.
• Ability to engage with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ownership mindset, accountability, and engineering maturity.
• Strong organizational skills to manage complexity across initiatives.
• Ability to work independently in a remote/global environment.
• Mentoring engineers and raising the bar across the team.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture for team service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and standards for a coherent codebase at scale.
• Design and operate high-scale search indexing, relevance, and low-latency performance under load.
• Design APIs with clean contracts, versioning, rate limiting, throttling, and quotas.
• Lead database layer schema design, query performance, indexing, partitioning, and capacity planning.
• Remain hands-on: write and review production code and prototype hard parts.
• Pay down systemic technical debt and reliability risks before incidents.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and pairing, raising testing/operability standards.

Skills

Software architecture

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

API design

AWS

Mentoring engineers

Communication skills

Tools

Maven

AWS (ECS/Lambda)

API Gateway

Job description

SalesIntel Research, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical anchor for the Engineering team. This is a deeply hands-on individual contributor role focused on architecture, systems design, and code quality.

You will own team service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and drive high-scale search indexing, low-latency performance, and robust API controls, while mentoring others and reducing systemic tech debt.