Senior Staff /Staff Software Engineer

The role

A Senior Staff or Staff Software Engineer will solve technically challenging problems across the platform. You will write and ship code while influencing architecture, technical direction, and engineering practices.

What you will do

• Own technically complex, high-impact problems from ambiguity through production and iteration.
• Work across the stack and across product areas.
• Shape architecture and technical direction while remaining deeply involved in implementation.
• Partner with product, design, operations, and company leadership.
• Identify technical investments that create leverage for other engineers and product teams.
• Raise the quality of engineering decisions through design, code review, mentorship, and technical leadership.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, simplicity, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Use modern AI tools to increase engineering leverage.
• Help evolve engineering practices and technical foundations.

Required qualifications

• Track record of owning complex software systems or product initiatives with meaningful technical and business impact.
• Deep software engineering fundamentals and the ability to move between architecture and implementation.
• Experience taking ambiguous problems, creating technical clarity, and driving them through execution.
• Strong judgment about when to build for the future and when the simplest solution is the right one.
• Experience influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate codebase or team.
• History of making other engineers more effective through mentorship, technical leadership, tooling, architecture, or improved engineering practices.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering and non-engineering partners.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where ownership is high and organizational boundaries are lightweight.
• Curiosity about how AI is changing software development and a desire to use these tools thoughtfully.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) match
• Fertility benefits via Carrot
• Flexible Time Away
• Paid holidays
• In-office lunches for our NY Office
• Social events - happy hours, birthday celebrations, holiday parties, & more!

Before you apply

• Unable to offer new H-1B visa sponsorship.
• Candidates must already be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring new H-1B sponsorship.
• Can support H-1B transfers.
• Able to sponsor TN visas for eligible Canadian and Mexican citizens.

About the company

Campus is on a mission to accelerate the talent of tomorrow and reimagine what college can be. They have built a two-year, accredited college where students learn from top professors in live, online classes.