Staff Software Engineer

Solace is a Series C startup focused on redefining healthcare by pairing patients with expert advocates. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive best practices while developing key product features and ensuring high-performance solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end development of key product features, from database models to UI components
• Serve as a technical leader and drive best practices across the engineering team
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and improving development workflows
• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions
• Architect and optimize our systems for performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Champion best practices in code quality, testing, and continuous integration/deployment
• Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks in both technical architecture and team processes
• Lead large releases to production on a continuous deployment cadence

Requirements:

• 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with deep expertise in both frontend and backend technologies
• Mastery of React, TypeScript, and Node.js, with a proven track record of shipping production-grade applications
• A strong background in scalable system design, API development, and database architecture
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments where you've built and shipped products from scratch
• Ability to set technical direction and mentor engineers, helping them grow in their craft
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to tackle complex technical challenges with pragmatic solutions
• An extreme bias toward action and execution—you move fast, iterate quickly, and get things done