[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Datahash

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on engineer who can take a product from an initial idea to a reliable production system, owning technical discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement.

• End-to-end product development.
• Translate business problems into technical plans, working prototypes, production features, and subsequent improvements.
• Architecture and technical decisions.
• Design systems that balance speed, simplicity, security, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• Full-stack implementation.
• Build user interfaces, backend services, APIs, integrations, data models, and background processing workflows.
• Production delivery.
• Own testing, CI/CD, cloud deployment, observability, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Technology evaluation.
• Quickly learn unfamiliar technologies, test assumptions through focused experiments, and choose tools based on the problem.
• AI-assisted engineering.
• Use coding assistants, agents, and automation to accelerate research, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Quality and maintainability.
• Review and validate all code, including AI-generated code, and establish appropriate tests, documentation, and operational safeguards.
• Product collaboration.
• Work directly with product and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions, define scope, and deliver useful increments.
• Technical influence.
• Raise engineering standards through design discussions, code reviews, reusable components, and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• A strong track record of independently building and shipping production software with ownership across multiple stages of the product lifecycle.
• Deep expertise in at least one backend ecosystem and strong working capability across modern frontend development, databases, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Broad understanding of tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches, with the ability to explain their trade-offs and select the simplest effective solution.
• Demonstrated ability to become productive quickly in unfamiliar codebases and technologies.
• Sound understanding of system design, data modeling, asynchronous processing, caching, queues, authentication, authorization, and application security.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and production incident diagnosis.
• Practical experience using AI development tools for meaningful engineering work, including breaking work into tasks, providing context, reviewing changes, and verifying results.
• Strong debugging skills and the ability to reason across application code, infrastructure, data, and third-party integrations.
• Product judgment: the ability to identify what matters, reduce unnecessary scope, and make sensible build-versus-buy decisions.
• Clear communication, strong ownership, and the ability to make progress with limited supervision.

Requirements

• You turn an unclear problem into a concrete plan and start delivering.
• You know when a prototype is sufficient and what must change before it reaches production.
• You use AI to increase your capacity while retaining a clear understanding of the systems you build.
• You can distinguish a useful abstraction from unnecessary complexity.
• You surface risks and trade-offs early and take responsibility for resolving them.
• You work independently while seeking feedback and specialist input when it improves the outcome.

Good to have

• Experience as an early engineering hire, founding engineer, or owner of a product built from scratch.
• Experience with SaaS platforms, multi-tenant systems, data pipelines, or integration-heavy products.
• Experience building LLM-powered features, agent workflows, or internal automation.
• Experience improving cloud costs, application performance, and production reliability.
• Exposure to conversions APIs, server-side tracking or ad-platform APIs.

Benefits

• A startup environment backed by a stable, bootstrapped, profitable business.
• Competitive compensation and one of the most employee-friendly ESOP programmes in the industry.
• Work from anywhere, on your hours; coworking access when you want a change from home.
• Health cover for you and your family.
• Real international exposure: clients and partners across the Gulf, Europe, Africa, India, APAC and the US.
• A yearly offsite that we take seriously, and a culture that does not.