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About the role
Below is how we differentiate expectations for Senior (Level 3) and Staff (Level 4) on our engineering ladder.
Focus allocation (rule of thumb)
Senior L3 70% technical execution, 15% technical leadership, 15% planning/strategy
Staff L4 50% technical execution, 25% technical leadership, 25% planning/strategy
Skills & experience
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For Senior (L3)
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Proven track record delivering complex systems or integrations in production.
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Strong system integration fundamentals APIs, enterprise patterns, cloud architectures).
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Experience designing for reliability (idempotency, retries/backoff, rate limiting, data validation).
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Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
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For Staff (L4)
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Demonstrated technical leadership at the team level: setting direction, influencing standards, and driving high-leverage initiatives.
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Experience creating leverage via shared patterns/frameworks/tooling.
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Strong ability to align stakeholders and drive decisions across competing priorities.
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Lead the design and execution of enterprise CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions and Docker to containerize and deploy microservices
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Nice to have
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Experience in a high-growth or scale-up environment.
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Familiarity with our stack (or similar): React, Vue.js, TypeScript, Node.js, C#/.NET Core, MongoDB, Docker.
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Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies; familiarity with tools like Jira and Confluence.
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