Staff Software Engineer – Foundations

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in New York is seeking a seasoned software engineering leader to define the technical vision for the Foundations group and drive architecture across integration, caching, APIs, and data models. You will act as a design-review authority for reliability, performance, and security while guiding capacity planning and incident-ready designs.

The role requires 8+ years of experience, a track record with multi-team projects, and strong collaboration with product and design teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Approximately 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant senior/staff individual-contributor experience building production product experiences.
• Track record of owning and shipping multi-team projects in modern web stacks.
• Experience working closely with product and design on user-facing features.
• Ability to lead technical decisions in ambiguous domains and explain tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and direction for the Foundations group.
• Lead architecture decisions for integration patterns, caching infrastructure, shared services, APIs, and data models.
• Serve as a technical escalation point and conduct design reviews for reliability, performance, and security.
• Drive SLOs, capacity planning, and incident-ready designs.
• Execute high-priority technical projects and own complex, multi-team initiatives end to end.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design guidance, pairing, and code review.

Skills

Technical Vision

Architecture Leadership

Full-Stack Development

Performance Optimization

Mentoring Engineers

Tools

Cloud Provider

SDKs

Internal APIs

Monitoring Tools

Data Dashboards

Job description

• Define and drive the technical vision and direction for the Foundations group


• Lead architecture decisions for integration patterns, caching infrastructure, shared services, APIs, and data models


• Serve as a technical escalation point and conduct design reviews for reliability, performance, and security


• Drive SLOs, capacity planning, and incident-ready designs


• Execute high-priority technical projects and own complex, multi-team initiatives end to end


• Design and implement application performance improvements and caching strategies


• Monitor and optimize platform performance and establish best practices


• Build and maintain shared libraries, SDKs, and internal APIs


• Create documentation, examples, and guidelines for platform services


• Support product engineering teams during integrations


• Embed unit, functional, contract, and automated testing


• Ensure consistent Mixpanel analytics instrumentation


• Partner with Product and Data on outcome-focused dashboards and monitoring


• Drive post-incident reviews and systemic improvements


• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design guidance, pairing, and code review


• Define and uphold engineering standards and documentation norms

Requirements

• Approximately 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant senior/staff individual-contributor experience building production product experiences


• Track record of owning and shipping multi-team projects in modern web stacks


• Experience working closely with product and design on user-facing features


• Ability to lead technical decisions in ambiguous domains and explain tradeoffs


• Strong full-stack skills across API and data-model design, UI development, monitoring, and metrics


• Deep familiarity with at least one cloud provider and infrastructure-as-code


• Strong systems-design instincts covering reliability, performance, security, and cost


• Excellent debugging and incident-response skills using logs, traces, and data


• Proven ability to lead through influence across multiple teams and partners


• Comfort working cross-functionally with clinicians, operations, and research


• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders


• Enjoyment of mentoring and developing engineers


• Experience in healthcare, digital health, or regulated domains is nice to have


• Exposure to EHRs, wearables integrations, or health data platforms is nice to have

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in defining technical vision, leading architecture decisions, and driving multi-team initiatives in software engineering. Proficient in API and data-model design, performance optimization, and mentoring engineers while ensuring adherence to engineering standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Technical Vision Definition


• API And Data-Model Design


• Performance Optimization


• Multi-Team Project Leadership


• Mentoring Engineers

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Software Engineering


• Systems Design


• Debugging


• Incident Response


• Full-Stack Development


• Caching Strategies


• Application Performance Improvement


• Unit Testing


• Infrastructure-As-Code


• Mixpanel Analytics

Soft Skills

• Clear Communication


• Cross-Functional Collaboration


• Mentoring

Industry Keywords

• Healthcare


• Digital Health


• EHRs


• Health Data Platforms


• Regulated Domains

Tools & Technologies

• Cloud Provider


• SDKs


• Internal APIs


• Monitoring Tools


• Data Dashboards