Staff Software Engineer, Maze
Full Stack
$161.2-189.6k
Offers Equity
User research platform
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User research platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$161.2-189.6k
Offers Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower any company to build the right products faster, by making user insights available at the speed of product development.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years building user facing applications; 3+ years at Staff or Principal level
- Deep expertise in modern full stack JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js + React) and relational databases (PostgreSQL)
- Proven track record delivering high quality features at scale and improving team velocity
- Strong communicator who can influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Skilled in performance optimization, maintainability, and security best practices
- Demonstrated ability to accelerate teams through technical improvements
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction
- Hands on experience delivering complex features from concept to production
- Understanding of performance optimization, maintainability, and security in web applications
- Pragmatic decision maker balancing innovation with stability
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions while advocating for engineering best practices
Desirable
- Experience with Next.js, NestJS, GraphQL, and/or TypeScript at scale
- Experience architecting high-scale systems on AWS and/or Kubernetes
- Strong perspective on UX, UI design, and the research space
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer on the Product Engineering team, you'll lead the design and delivery of high impact features, working closely with product, design, and engineering to solve complex problems and ensure our systems are scalable, maintainable, and a joy to work on
- This is a hands on leadership role — you’ll architect solutions, write code, mentor engineers, and shape our technical strategy
- Design and build features and systems that directly impact the customer experience
- Architect scalable, maintainable solutions for complex product challenges
- Set technical standards, patterns, and practices that raise the engineering bar
- Partner with product and design to shape solutions from concept to delivery
- Remove blockers, improve workflows, and enable teams to deliver faster
- Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across teams
- Research, prototype, and introduce new tools, frameworks, and patterns
Our take
Maze is a rapid testing platform designed for product and marketing teams to run large-scale user tests and gain actionable insights within hours. Tailored for user-facing experiences, it enables teams to test prototypes, and concepts, and copy remotely and collaboratively, transforming results into quantitative data quickly.
The platform is intuitive, browser-based, and device-agnostic, seamlessly integrating with top design tools like Figma, InVision, Adobe XD, Marvel, and Sketch, speeding up the testing process.
Operating as a fully remote team, Maze practices what it preaches about the effectiveness of remote work. In 2022, it secured $40M in funding, which is being invested in new product solutions and workflow integrations, furthering its mission to democratize product research.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Feb 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $57.5m
Company benefits
- To help our team do their best work, we provide a non-windows computer and funds to get setup. As computing requirements vary from team to team, the best option is according to personal and team preferences
- Fund to get everything you need for you rhome office set up
- Every month, each amazing will be given 500 bonusly points (converts to around $70) that they can give to other amazings to recognize them for teamwork, dedication and helpfulness. You can use the points you receive from your colleagues to redeem products on Amazon, cash out on Paypal, donate to non-profits and many more options (depending on what country you're based)
- Referral bonus: What's better than working with people you trust? If you know someone who you trust to do a great job for one of the open positions at Maze, we want to know about them. This will help Maze build a great product, create a great culture, and make sure every a-maze-ing is, well, amazing. So, if hired, on their 6 months anniversary you will receive a $1000 bonus for full time team member recruits or $500 for part time team member recruits (that are not fixed term i.e. have no set end date)
- Company off-site: Our teams gather in person 1-2 times per year to collaborate together, generate deeper bonds, and get some face-to-face time in. These events may be smaller team meetups or larger department gathering depending on the objective of the off-site. In the past we have also done company wide retreats, but we are currently putting more focus on the department/team events. 100% of airfare, accommodation, meals are paid by Maze plus you get an activity fund to have some fun
- All team members are able to book drop-in sessions and therapy courses with mental health professionals via Oliva
- Team members have access to free virtual wellness sessions and self-guided resources such as Yoga, exercise classes, bed time stories, meditation resources, and more. Plus a library of resource clips on managing things like anxiety, stress, burnout, parenting, and more
- Learning and Development Stipend to pay for all of your professional development needs
- ThanksBen Pers at Work
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jonathan Widawksi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former UX Lead at Bam.tech and Founder of game messaging platform Pin.gg
Thomas Mary
(Co-Founder)Thomas was Lead Developer at Playabl for nearly 2 years and, before this, CTO at Viceversa.
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