Staff Software Engineer - Remote: Cloud-Native Platform Lead

Oliver James Group; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver James Group is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on Insurance to drive the architectural direction of a major platform. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership across design decisions, APIs, and integrations to deliver scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with product and architecture teams to set standards, improve reliability, and advance engineering practices while mentoring engineers across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Mentor engineers and establish engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, development, and delivery of a cloud-native platform.
• Define architecture and technical direction across applications, APIs, integrations, data, security, reliability, and scalability.
• Lead technical design discussions and pragmatic trade-offs.
• Remain hands-on with development while guiding other engineers.
• Establish engineering best practices across architecture, code quality, CI/CD, observability, and production reliability.
• Identify and mitigate technical and architectural risks before delivery.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise technical capability across the organization.

Skills

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Architecture

APIs

Security

Reliability

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

Engineering practices

Job description

Oliver James Group is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on Insurance to drive the architectural direction of a major platform. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership across design decisions, APIs, and integrations to deliver scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with product and architecture teams to set standards, improve reliability, and advance engineering practices while mentoring engineers across multiple teams.