Staff Software Engineer — Remote, Lead Distributed Systems

Privacy.com; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

12 weeks parental leave

Sabbatical after 5 years

Work From Anywhere 4 weeks/year

Equity

Health, vision, dental

401(k) match

Life Insurance

Job summary

Privacy.com is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to scale to meet growth. You will split your time between hands-on coding and technical leadership, shaping the platform for scale and mentoring other engineers.

You'll become an expert in card payments, solve distributed systems problems, and make architectural and product decisions. The distributed team spans the US and Europe, with a NodeJS, DocumentDB, and AWS stack.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience shipping code in a fast paced production environment.
• Experience building event-based and advanced distributed systems.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for your work.
• Technical lead for a small team.
• Led large multi-month migration/re-architecting projects.
• Mentored engineers on distributed systems patterns and best practices.
• Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills and eagerness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high reliability and correctness for Privacy.com card processing.
• Understand system challenges and propose step function changes to future architecture.
• Drive large multi-month initiatives and roadmaps.
• Ensure the team delivers reliable, secure, and scalable code.
• Lead efforts to improve system and processes within the team and across engineering.
• Help drive strategic planning with engineering, product, and cross-functional leaders.
• Balance long-term investments with immediate product value.
• Participate in team on-call rotations.

Tools

NodeJS

DocumentDB

AWS

Job description

Privacy.com is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to scale to meet growth. You will split your time between hands-on coding and technical leadership, shaping the platform for scale and mentoring other engineers.

You'll become an expert in card payments, solve distributed systems problems, and make architectural and product decisions. The distributed team spans the US and Europe, with a NodeJS, DocumentDB, and AWS stack.