Staff Software Engineer

Recruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. The Staff Software Engineer will play a central role in building and evolving complex, high-scale systems, designing backend and data-centric solutions while guiding technical quality across the engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Translate product requirements into technical requirements and iterative design plans
• Work closely with a product manager to build implementation plans aligned to technical roadmaps
• Maintain, develop, and deploy backend services that power the platform’s architecture
• Analyze technical challenges and recommend scalable, efficient solutions
• Automate, test, and deploy your own work and support the team’s deployment practices
• Review code and technical designs with a focus on high engineering standards
• Mentor other developers and support their technical growth
• Drive the day-to-day engineering excellence of a team, ensuring roadmap-aligned progress
• Lead technical decision-making to produce maintainable, high-quality solutions
• Identify technical and operational gaps and create plans to address them
• Serve as the domain expert for part of the product surface area while maintaining broad technical fluency
• Collaborate with leads and managers to maintain team focus, alignment, and sustainable delivery

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional experience building backend or data-driven software in demanding production environments
• Experience deploying production code and services to cloud-hosted environments
• Proven ability to deliver iterative releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production
• A self-starter comfortable working on large, ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong commitment to clean code, scalable design, and technical craftsmanship
• Experience taking ownership of existing codebases and continuing to evolve them
• Ability to prioritize effectively and maintain focus on high-impact areas
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience leading engineers on complex projects
• Experience with Python machine learning toolsets (NumPy, Pandas, Dedupe)
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Languages: Python, PySpark
• Tools: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Celery
• Data Platforms: Databricks, Delta Lakes