Staff Software Engineer: Platform Architect & Tech Leader

Ontic Technologies; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits

401k

Stock Options

HSA Contribution

Learning Stipend

Flexible PTO Policy

Parental Leave

Home Office Stipend

Mobile Phone Reimbursement

Job summary

Ontic is seeking a seasoned full-stack engineering leader to shape and execute a scalable technical strategy within a multi-team environment. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and elevate engineering standards across products.

You will oversee backend systems with Java, Spring Boot, and distributed data stores, while guiding frontend excellence with React, TypeScript, and modern tooling. This role is based in Austin and requires in-office presence three days a week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 3 years driving technical architecture or strategy across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical architecture and strategy for systems that span multiple teams.
• Partner with engineering leaders, product leaders, and teams across the organization on complex, high-impact initiatives.
• Set technical direction and establish engineering best practices and standards across teams.
• Mentor engineers across levels, develop other technical leaders, and raise the technical bar organization-wide.
• Tackle the organization's most challenging technical problems, especially across multiple systems or domains.
• Drive improvements to performance, scalability, and security that benefit multiple teams and systems.
• Own major cross-team initiatives end-to-end, from ideation through long-term operational health.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and practices that improve engineering effectiveness.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

React

Redux

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Webpack

Jest

Tailwind

CI/CD Pipelines

Cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

Ontic is seeking a seasoned full-stack engineering leader to shape and execute a scalable technical strategy within a multi-team environment. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and elevate engineering standards across products.

You will oversee backend systems with Java, Spring Boot, and distributed data stores, while guiding frontend excellence with React, TypeScript, and modern tooling. This role is based in Austin and requires in-office presence three days a week.