Staff Software Engineer

TheGuarantors is a fintech company helping multifamily owners and operators mitigate leasing risk while expanding access for renters. The Staff Software Engineer will lead cross-team initiatives, support engineering teams during critical challenges, and provide technical leadership to enhance software delivery and maintain high-quality standards.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute high-impact, cross-functional engineering initiatives across multiple teams
• Partner with engineering leadership to identify delivery bottlenecks, architectural risks, and opportunities for operational improvement
• Drive alignment between teams on technical standards, architecture, scalability, and engineering best practices
• Help accelerate organizational delivery while maintaining a strong focus on software quality, reliability, and maintainability
• Influence technical direction and engineering strategy across the organization
• Temporarily embed within engineering teams to tackle complex or urgent technical challenges
• Provide hands-on support during critical delivery periods, production incidents, migrations, or large-scale refactors
• Help teams improve velocity through mentorship, technical guidance, and pragmatic execution
• Assist teams in resolving architectural, performance, scalability, and reliability issues
• Contribute directly to implementation when necessary, including writing and reviewing production-grade code
• Serve as a technical mentor and trusted advisor to engineers and engineering managers
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, development standards, and scalable design patterns
• Lead architectural discussions and help teams make informed technical tradeoffs
• Advocate for operational excellence, observability, testing, security, and maintainability
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at a senior or staff engineering level
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from conception through delivery
• Strong expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, and modern engineering practices
• Demonstrated experience working across multiple teams, stakeholders, and technical domains
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems and codebases
• Strong hands-on coding ability and willingness to contribute directly when needed
• Experience leveraging AI-driven engineering tools and workflows to enhance software delivery, improve engineering efficiency, and support scalable, high-quality development practices across teams
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without direct authority
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to balance speed, pragmatism, and technical quality in fast-moving environments
• Experience operating in high-growth or rapidly evolving engineering organizations
• Background in platform engineering, developer productivity, reliability engineering, or architecture-focused roles
• Experience leading incident response, system modernization, or organizational scaling initiatives
• Experience with Typescript, React, Golang and ability to pick up new technologies, languages, frameworks
• Familiarity with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and modern software delivery practices