Staff Software Engineer (Front-end)

engineeringatgigs; United States; Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Home office stipend

Learning & development budget

Phone and international data plan

Job summary

engineeringatgigs is seeking a Senior IC to lead architectural direction across distributed systems and multi-carrier integrations. You will ship production code while scaling the engineering org and driving AI-enabled platform improvements.

You will mentor senior engineers, establish governance, and collaborate with leadership on technical strategy across teams. Hybrid work is expected with regular hub time.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Strong observability, SLOs, and incident response practices.
• Experience navigating polyglot codebases across languages.
• Hands-on AI development with practical judgment on tool use.
• Ability to drive technical outcomes across teams without formal authority.
• Past mentoring of engineers with measurable team improvements.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve cross-cutting architectures spanning event-driven systems and multi-tenant platforms.
• Establish governance and review practices to keep architectures coherent as teams scale.
• Raise the bar on observability, SLOs, graceful degradation, and on-call culture.
• Identify and drive AI-enabled platform enhancements and tooling.
• Mentor senior engineers and help shape growth paths for ICs.
• Ship production code and collaborate with leadership on technical direction.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

Polyglot environments

Mentoring

Influence without authority

AI development

Tools

Go

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Ruby

Job description

Role overview

Step into a senior individual contributor role at a connectivity platform that lets tech companies embed global telecom services into their products, bridging traditional carrier systems with modern software. You will shape technical direction across cross-team boundaries while continuing to ship production code, with the engineering organization actively scaling. The work spans distributed systems, multi-carrier integrations, operational excellence, and pushing forward where AI changes platform and engineering practice.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve cross-cutting architectures spanning event-driven systems, multi-carrier integrations, and multi-tenant platform patterns
• Establish governance and review practices that keep these architectures coherent as the organization grows
• Raise the bar on operational excellence across observability, SLOs, graceful degradation, incident response, and on-call culture
• Identify and drive forward the places where AI changes platform and engineering practices
• Mentor senior engineers and help shape the senior IC growth path
• Ship production code and partner with engineering leadership on technical strategy

Requirements

• Track record developing, running, and maintaining distributed systems and event-driven architectures at scale
• Strong operational instincts, treating observability, failure modes, alerting, and graceful degradation as first-class concerns
• Experience navigating and rationalizing polyglot environments
• Hands‑on experience with agentic AI development beyond code completion, with opinions on when AI is the right tool
• Ability to drive technical outcomes across teams without direct authority, persuading through credibility and evidence
• History of mentoring engineers, with specific examples of team improvements you enabled

Nice to have

• Background in telecom, payments, or multi-market API platforms
• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, Next.js, Ruby, or Go
• Experience at companies scaling from roughly 50 to 200 engineers
• Domain-driven design or platform and product boundary work

Benefits and work setup

• Salary range of €125,000 to €150,000
• Stock options in the company
• Home office or work setup stipend
• Dedicated learning and development budget
• Free phone and international data plan
• Hybrid work with regular time in company hubs and occasional travel for team workshops, customer meetings, and biannual company offsites