Senior/Staff Software Engineer with Startup Client experience

Job Title: Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time role

Client: Loancrate

Seniority

• 7 - 25 years of experience as a Staff/Senior Software Engineer with full-stack web app development from design through deployment. Minimum 5 years of being a Senior-level engineer

Work experience

• Worked at a tech company where software was the product (high-growth tech startups like Ramp, not non-tech industries like retail banking)
• Experience in high-growth tech startups/companies (VC-backed or FAANG)
• Designing and scaling complex relational DB schemas
• Fintech companies is a plus

Hard skills

Strong proficiency in TypeScript with clear examples of complex system/products they've built hands-on recently on their resume

Scaling high-throughput distributed systems in the cloud with AWS and Terraform

React on the frontend, Node/Express on the backend (running inside Docker), GraphQL/Apollo on both sides, and Postgres as our database.

Familiarity with modern AI product development lifecycles (evals, experiment design, dataset curation, etc).

SRE-oriented mindset (reliable, observable, low-toil infra)

Soft skills

• Keen eye for security risks
• Miscellaneous
• Ability to work remotely within the U.S. time zones.
• Long tenure and progression in roles (2+ years) within the same company
• Active GitHub is a strong plus
• Side projects

Traits to avoid

• Frequent job-hopping (more than two jobs of a year or less tenure).
• Those seeking/asking about work-life balance
• Experience working at banks (JPM, Goldman Sachs, Capital One, etc.)
• Those currently out of work
• resumes with keywords bolded
• Traditional career managers
• People who have only founded - important to have seen good at scale and worked with a strong team