Staff Software Engineer, Shine

• This is a role for someone who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, shaping technical direction, and building high-quality software alongside the team
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience providing technical leadership without direct people management responsibilities
• Strong experience with TypeScript (Node.js/JavaScript also considered)
• Experience designing and building event-driven architectures and microservices
• Strong understanding of REST API design, ownership, and lifecycle management
• Experience building and operating applications on AWS
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Demonstrated ability to make architecture decisions and take long-term ownership of technical solutions
• Passion for code quality through testing, reviews, engineering standards, and mentoring
• Genuine interest in financial, accounting, or business software domains
• Enthusiastic adopter of AI engineering tools, with practical experience using AI in day-to-day software development

Desirable

• We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership within a product engineering team while remaining deeply hands-on
• You'll influence architecture, establish engineering standards, mentor other engineers, and own the long-term technical health of our platform
• While you'll lead technically, this is not a people management role your impact comes through engineering excellence, collaboration, and technical decision-making
• The majority of your time will be spent designing, building, and shipping software
• Lead the technical direction of a product area, balancing immediate delivery with long-term platform health
• Design and build scalable event-driven systems and microservices
• Own the architecture, design, and evolution of REST APIs
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions that support growth, maintainability, and reliability
• Develop primarily in TypeScript (Node.js), writing clean, well-tested, production-ready code
• Drive engineering best practices through code reviews, technical standards, and mentoring
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver customer value
• Champion software quality, observability, performance, and operational excellence
• Use modern AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity across coding, debugging, testing, and design
• Continuously evaluate new technologies and practices that improve developer experience and product quality
• You'll join a collaborative product engineering team of 5–8 engineers with a mix of experience levels across the Shine hubs
• This is a highly collaborative environment where technical leadership is shared, ideas are encouraged, and engineers are trusted to make meaningful technical decisions
• The role is intentionally hands-on, with the majority of your time spent writing code and delivering customer value
• What Success Looks Like:
• Build scalable, maintainable systems that stand the test of time
• Raise the engineering capability of those around you through mentorship and technical leadership
• Help shape architectural decisions that enable the business to grow
• Foster a culture of quality, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Demonstrate how AI can be effectively integrated into modern software engineering workflows without compromising quality or craftsmanship

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