[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Highlight

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Data Products team, you'll own the architecture and execution of data-intensive systems that power insights for our customers. You'll balance hands-on technical leadership with mentorship, setting the technical bar for how we build at scale while shipping features that directly impact product strategy and customer value. Success means delivering performant, maintainable systems while growing the engineering team's capabilities and understanding of complex data challenges.

To help make our mission a reality, you’ll:

• Use your technical expertise and good judgment to translate ideas, wireframes, and detailed designs into data-intensive web applications that deliver value for our customers.
• Use agentic loops throughout your development process to accelerate value delivery.
• Use architecture and code reviews to coach, mentor, and raise the bar for both end-user products and software systems.
• Triage, investigate, and resolve complex issues involving distributed systems and third-party providers.
• Understand and directly advance Highlight’s mission.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building data-intensive online applications.
• Familiarity with ETL and/or RAG design and development.
• Proficiency in multiple technologies across our software stack (React, TypeScript, Next.JS, ai-sdk, PostgreSQL, and C#/.NET).
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools like Figma and v0.
• Bonus points for experience operating CI/CD pipelines (we use Github Actions, Terraform, and helm), production systems (AWS, EKS) or observability platforms (Grafana/OTel) aligned with our stack.

Requirements

• Owners. You’ll take initiative, deliver results, and inspire the people around you to do the same.
• Impact-driven. You’ll understand your users’ needs and take ownership in delivering value on their behalf.
• Great teammates. You’ll share our team’s commitment to learning and growth and thrive in collaboration with the humans around you.
• Curious. You’ll go the extra mile to understand the “why” behind your work, seeing ambiguity and open questions as opportunities to learn and overdeliver.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with 100% of employee premiums covered.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Flexible, remote WFH culture.
• Generous paid maternity & parental leave.
• 401k account.
• $50/month WFH reimbursement.
• Based on previous experience and skillset, the starting salary range for this position is $170,000 - $210,000.