Staff Software Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer based in Germany.

Join a fully remote engineering organization where your influence extends across teams, systems, and engineering practices.

As a Staff Engineer, you will remain hands-on while leading major architectural initiatives and helping engineers make better technical decisions.

You will shape the evolution of a distributed rendering platform, with a strong focus on simplicity, scalability, reliability, and testability.

Your expertise will help teams move faster and more safely by removing systemic bottlenecks and establishing effective technical patterns and practices.

You will work closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams to connect technical investments with broader business goals.

Beyond writing code, you will coach engineers, build shared context, and raise the standard of engineering excellence across the organization.

This role is ideal for a technically strong, systems-oriented leader who enjoys solving complex problems while empowering others to succeed.

Accountabilities

• Contribute directly to core systems while setting high standards for code quality, testing, architecture, and software design.
• Lead cross-team architectural initiatives that simplify systems and improve scalability, reliability, performance, and testability.
• Design elegant solutions to complex technical challenges involving distributed systems and large-scale web rendering.
• Identify technical risks, systemic bottlenecks, and recurring challenges, then establish effective solutions and engineering defaults that enable teams to work efficiently.
• Coach and mentor engineers at different levels through pairing, design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on support in engineering practices.
• Promote sustainable engineering practices such as test-driven development, pair programming, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Partner with product and leadership teams to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term technical health and maintainability.
• Improve engineering tooling, automation, workflows, and shared practices to increase effectiveness across teams.
• Facilitate technical discussions and create shared context around architectural decisions, trade-offs, and strategic priorities.
• Review code and provide thoughtful, actionable feedback that helps engineers continuously improve.
• Establish patterns, guardrails, and good technical defaults that increase consistency and enable teams to move with confidence.
• Lead by example through ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and a continuous drive to improve systems and ways of working.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience designing and delivering complex software and distributed systems.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale technical or architectural initiatives that have simplified, strengthened, or significantly improved core systems.
• Deep expertise in modern backend development, ideally with TypeScript/Node.js or Golang.
• Strong familiarity with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Excellent understanding of system design, distributed architectures, performance, reliability, scalability, and software quality.
• Strong systems-thinking ability, with the capacity to connect product objectives, technical architecture, engineering practices, and organizational needs.
• Demonstrated ability to balance short-term delivery priorities with long-term maintainability and technical sustainability.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers through context, guidance, collaboration, and example rather than authority or gatekeeping.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ownership, initiative, and problem-solving skills, combined with a consistent drive to improve systems, teams, and processes.
• Comfortable working in a distributed, remote-first environment with a high degree of autonomy and trust.
• Experience with SEO, web performance, or large-scale rendering infrastructure is a plus, but curiosity, adaptability, and strong engineering fundamentals are valued more highly than specific industry experience.

Benefits

• 100% remote work, offering flexibility to work from Europe and beyond within the applicable remote-work framework.
• High degree of autonomy and trust, with freedom to determine how best to solve technical challenges.
• Flexible working arrangements designed to support sustainable performance and individual needs.
• Minimal bureaucracy, unnecessary meetings, and red tape, allowing teams to maintain momentum.
• Flexible time off to support rest, recovery, and a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to work with a small, friendly, collaborative engineering team.
• Access to a broader international network of SaaS professionals for knowledge sharing, learning, and exchanging ideas.
• Opportunity to have significant influence across engineering teams, architecture, tooling, and technical practices.
• Location-adjusted compensation aligned with local market medians for a remote-first environment, with the salary range communicated in writing before the first interview.
• Inclusive and diverse working environment where fresh perspectives and different backgrounds are valued.