[Hiring] Staff Engineer @JobTeaser

Role Description

We are opening a Staff Software Engineer position with a cross-squad scope. It is a senior individual contributor role, reporting directly to the Head of Engineering. Your impact will be measured by how much the whole engineering team improves with you in it:

• The quality of our architecture
• The speed at which squads deliver
• The technical level of the engineers around you

Together with our other Staff Engineers, you will:

• Shape the technical direction of our three squads
• Lead the technical initiatives no single squad can own
• Help teams with their hardest problems
• Keep writing code

This is a job for someone who still likes to build.

What you will do

• Architecture and technical direction across squads:
  • Define and maintain the target architecture of the platform
  • Anticipate technical problems the product will hit in the next 6 to 12 months
  • Frame complex technical topics at the system level
  • Make trade-offs explicit for Product and Engineering leadership
• Hands-on technical leadership:
  • Write code on critical and transverse pieces
  • Know large sections of the codebase in depth
  • Set the example on testing, observability, and deployment practices
  • Remove complexity wherever you find it
• Growing the engineering team:
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers
  • Run the backend community with chapter leads
  • Represent JobTeaser engineering outside the company
• Working with engineering leadership:
  • Structure technical work and weigh technical investment against product needs
  • Help technical debates reach a decision
  • Pick up transverse topics that have no natural owner

What will be your next challenges?

• Consolidate our tech stack, practices, and tooling across our microservice architecture
• Lead explorations and architectural design of complex new features
• Supervise the proper documentation of our architectural decisions
• Participate in the animation of the community of backend and frontend developers
• Guide improvements to our platform’s monitoring, alerting, and reliability
• Mentor and assist other backend developers and teams on complex problems

Qualifications

• 8 or more years in software engineering, including a substantial period in a transverse or lead role
• Strong backend skills in Ruby or another backend ecosystem
• Experience with distributed systems, relational databases, Kafka, REST and gRPC APIs, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes
• Built and operated business-critical systems at scale
• Ability to align engineers, managers, and product people without hierarchical authority
• Ability to explain complex things simply, in writing and in conversation
• Familiarity with LLMs and agents in software engineering

Benefits

• Join a mission-driven company with a concrete impact on the new generation
• Share our three core virtues: #OneTeam, #Ownership, #Innovation
• Dynamic internal life with contributions encouraged
• Strong training policy with an annual individual budget for learning opportunities
• Flexible work environment: remote-friendly with one month per year from anywhere in Europe
• Family Care Policy: additional paid days off during parental leave
• Mental health support with free therapy or coaching sessions
• Employee feedback shapes JobTeaser’s culture
• No-Meeting Wednesday mornings initiative
• Collaboration with our CSE for enhancing work life and benefits
• Essentials: RTT, health insurance, lunch vouchers, holiday bonus, and public transport reimbursement
• Modern office at WeWork with amenities
• High employee satisfaction: 88% proud to work at JobTeaser

Your hiring process and the next steps

• 30-min screening call with Emilie, our Lead Technical Recruiter
• Technical interview with two Senior Engineers
• Interview with your future manager
• Final round with your Department Head

Compensation

EUR 75,000 - EUR 85,000 yearly