Staff Engineer

About the Role

We are hiring a Staff Engineer to own the architecture, delivery, and long-term operation of high-impact backend systems. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and product analytics infrastructure — equally responsible for the reliability of production systems and the trustworthiness of the data those systems generate.

You will set technical direction, define engineering standards, and lead 1–3 engineers while staying hands-on in the codebase. The ideal candidate has shipped backend systems at scale for consumer or product-led companies and has also owned analytics infrastructure — from event taxonomy and data governance to experimentation and attribution tooling.

Success in the first 3–6 months looks like:

- Conduct a clear-eyed audit of existing backend systems and analytics infrastructure, identifying the highest-priority gaps

- Establish or improve engineering standards, automated testing processes, and KPI tracking across reliability, data quality, and development speed

- Take ownership of analytics infrastructure — cleaning up event taxonomy, ensuring reconciliation across tools, and making data trustworthy for the broader team

- Set technical direction for at least one meaningful backend or data initiative and see it through to production

- Build a strong working relationship with product and engineering stakeholders through clear, proactive communication

Key Responsibilities

- Own the delivery and long-term operation of high-impact backend systems, from architecture to production

- Set and evolve backend engineering standards, processes, and technical best practices

- Define and actively use KPIs covering system reliability, development speed, data quality, and error rates

- Make system-level architectural decisions and clearly communicate tradeoffs to engineering and product stakeholders

- Own analytics infrastructure — event taxonomy, governance, and reconciliation across tools like Amplitude and A...