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Our customers, from industry giants like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft, rely on the Nintex Platform to accelerate their digital transformation journeys by managing, automating, and optimizing business processes quickly and efficiently. We improve their lives through the technology we build. \nWe are committed to fostering a workplace that supports amazing people in doing their very best work every day. Collaboration is constant, our workplace is fun, the environment is fast-paced, and we value our people’s curiosity, ideas, and enthusiasm. Driven by passion and accountability, we take initiative, measure progress, and deliver results. Our culture fosters innovation and problem-solving, fueled by curiosity and a commitment to thinking big. Together, we move with agility, prioritize customer needs, and build unity through empathy, leaving a positive impact wherever we go. \nWorking in engineering: \nWorking at Nintex as an engineer means building more than just software; it’s about making a tangible impact with every line of code. Our engineers are process experts, developing the industry’s most complete process and automation platform to transform the way people work. If you’re interested, curious and want to learn and do more, the sky is the limit here. We take a solutions-oriented and collaborative approach, constantly innovating our business and products. \nAbout the role: \nAs a Staff Platform Engineer, you own the technical strategy for a key product area or platform, ensuring long-term scalability, maintainability, and alignment with business objectives.\nFor platform-focused roles, you contribute to the internal developer platform features - help defining roadmaps informed by adoption metrics, feedback loops and platform SLAs - all in service of your team’s developer experience.\nYou exhibit advanced wide-ranging experience, applying in-depth professional knowledge and commercial acumen to resolve complex technical challenges and define scalable procedures.\nYou lead technical direction across a feature team or product domain, drive architectural decisions, and influence multiple teams to ensure consistency -balancing hands-on technical contribution with strategic leadership.\nYou develop deep domain expertise and actively 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work is reviewed upon completion and is consistent with departmental objectives\nYou maintain significant hands-on technical contributions as a senior individual contributor\nYou continue to write code, design systems, review architectures, and solve complex technical problems\nYou lead by example, demonstrating technical excellence in your own work\nYou participate in on-call rotations and incident response as a senior technical leader\nYou implement critical features and infrastructure components for your platform or product area\nYou contribute to knowledge sharing through documentation, tech talks, and training sessions\nYou guide best practices across teams, fostering a culture of engineering excellence\nYou help engineers develop their skills in Platform, infrastructure, and system design\nYou serve as a role model for technical excellence and professional growth\nAttend and actively participate in team meetings and ceremonies applicable to current focus\nParticipate in the 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