Staff Software Engineer & Systems Architect

What the Tech, Bend; Bend (OR); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vector Remote Care is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead architectural direction and scale complex distributed systems. You will shape engineering strategy, partner with product, and elevate how teams deliver value at scale.

You will influence multiple teams, drive reliability, testing, and observability practices, and mentor engineers while communicating strategic vision across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, incl. 4+ years at Staff level.
• Proven track record architecting and scaling distributed systems in production.
• Deep SaaS architecture expertise including design, performance, reliability.
• Expert Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, and NoSQL (DynamoDB) skills.
• Extensive AWS experience and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Strong grasp of software architecture patterns and knowledge sharing.
• Experience building solid testing strategies and observability practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural direction across domains and teams to enable growth.
• Anticipate evolution and design systems that support it.
• Guide teams through ambiguity and set architectural standards.
• Improve quality by defining standards and reducing code health issues.
• Reduce debugging effort through better systems and tooling.
• Act as strategic product partner aligning tech decisions with customer needs.
• Scale engineering practices, testing, and reliability culture across teams.
• Lead incident response and improve diagnostic processes when needed.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to engineers, product, and executives.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Distributed systems

SaaS architecture

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

MySQL

DynamoDB

Kubernetes

Job description

Vector Remote Care is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead architectural direction and scale complex distributed systems. You will shape engineering strategy, partner with product, and elevate how teams deliver value at scale.

You will influence multiple teams, drive reliability, testing, and observability practices, and mentor engineers while communicating strategic vision across the organization.