Staff Engineer (80-100%)

Job description

About the role

As a Staff Engineer, you are an experienced individual contributor who combines deep technical expertise with influence across teams. You will lead by example by guiding implementation decisions, mentoring engineers and tech leads, and shaping technical practices that make our systems more secure, resilient and maintainable.

Main tasks

• Design and implement secure, scalable back-end systems in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Creation and promotion of reusable libraries, design patterns and technical standards that promote consistency and quality.
• Mentoring engineers and tech leads in system design, performance and safe practices.
• Leading technical decisions and trade-offs across domains to improve maintainability and speed of delivery.
• Promoting observability, testability and operational resilience throughout the development cycle.
• Review and contribute to RFCs, design documents and decision protocols to align teams and provide clarity.
• Collaborate with platform and engineering leadership to improve CI/CD, developer tools and system reliability.
• Support incident response and lead root cause analysis to drive systematic improvements.
• Researching and piloting new technologies that improve performance and developer experience.

Ideal candidate

• Experience in designing complex back-end systems in regulated or highly trusted environments.
• Strong understanding of system performance, observability and secure software development.
• Background in incident management and building resilient, fault-tolerant systems.
• Proven ability to mentor and influence technical decisions across teams.
• Ability to cooperate across product, platform, architecture and security roles.
• Familiarity with modern technical practices: CICD, IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes, AWS.
• Expertise in Java (Quarkus) or NodeJS (NestJS), with a willingness to learn the other.

Requirements

• Enjoy solving deep technical challenges with long-term, cross-team impact.
• Strive to mentor others and raise technical standards.
• Appreciation for clean, secure code as well as fast and reliable delivery.
• Hands-on, proactive and motivated by technical complexity.
• Influence technical direction and implementation standards across teams.
• Understanding of distributed systems, microservices and event-driven architecture.

Success

• Teams proactively seek your input on complex technical challenges and design decisions.
• Your samples and standards improve delivery speed, system quality and developer experience.
• Platforms and system resilience improve, with a measurable reduction in incidents and MTTR.
• Engineers and Tech Leads grow through your mentoring and leadership role.
• Your work contributes significantly to the long-term technical strategy and technical principles.
• Teams deliver safe, reliable and maintainable systems that meet regulatory requirements.

We offer

• A dynamic and challenging working environment.
• Opportunities for personal and professional development.
• An open and cooperative team culture.