Staff Software Engineer

The role

You will own the technical direction of products and lead the design and delivery of backend systems. You will work across the stack and mentor engineers on a fast-moving team.

What you will do

• Own the product platform.
• Lead the design and delivery of backend systems including APIs, data models, and services.
• Make technical judgment calls regarding domain modeling and scaling.
• Take products from technical design through launch.
• Work across the stack including frontend, mobile, and data work.
• Set technical standards through architecture, reviews, and good practices.
• Mentor engineers and review their work.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• Track record of owning systems and leading them to production
• Deep backend ability in API design, data modeling, and production systems at scale
• Build AI-first by directing AI coding tools to do implementation
• Technical judgment to decide between scale and speed
• Comfortable working outside your core stack
• Product mindset
• Clear communicator

Benefits

• Daily catered lunch
• 100% of medical, dental, and vision paid
• 401k matching up to 4%
• Maternity and paternity paid leave
• 20 days of PTO
• 9 days of sick leave
• 10 company holidays
• End-of-year shutdown
• Equity compensation

About the company

Cambly is an English learning marketplace and school that matches English students with English tutors. The company is $60M VC backed.