Staff Engineer

What you will be doing:

Technical Execution :

• You will be considered an expert in at least one relevant technical area, sought out for reviews and advice by multiple teams and colleagues.
• Your work will also include forecasting and managing project timelines and risks, and setting a sustainable and incremental team pace.
• It means that you will define the technical solutions for important business problems and understand the context in which large company decisions are made.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• A part of the Staff Engineer's scope is aligning non-adjacent teams and disciplines to resolve unstructured and ambiguous challenges. This extends to coaching other folks across all levels and supporting up-and-coming leaders in the team.
• You will lead the technical direction of their team, and influence the strategic direction and build non-adjacent team relationships.
• Staff Engineers are calibrated to lead all types of engineering interviews, to help guide the understanding of the LoopHealth bar for all lower levels which often requires contribution in other recruiting areas outside of interviewing.

We want to emphasise that we don't expect you to meet all of the below but would love you to have experience in some of these areas.

• Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software
• Experience writing web-based applications in any language, and an interest in learning (Go,Node, Scala, or Java)
• Familiarity and practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Familiarity and practical experience with web architecture at scale 
• Familiarity and practical experience with "NoSQL" data backends and key-value stores (Redis, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Memcache)
• Familiarity and practical experience solving logistical problems with software

This Staff Engineer role focuses on setting technical direction for important business problems and helping engineering teams deliver sustainable, well-designed software. The work also includes aligning teams, coaching colleagues, and contributing to engineering interviews and recruiting.

Role at a glance

Skills mentioned

What you will likely work on

• Define technical approaches to important business problems, taking broader business decisions into account.
• Review technical work and advise colleagues and multiple teams in an area of expertise.
• Forecast project timelines and risks, and help teams maintain a sustainable delivery pace.
• Align teams and disciplines to address ambiguous, cross-functional challenges.
• Guide the technical direction of the team and contribute to broader strategic direction.
• Coach colleagues across experience levels and support emerging team leaders.
• Lead engineering interviews and contribute to recruiting beyond interviews where needed.

Good fit signals

• You have deep expertise in at least one relevant technical area and are a trusted source of review and advice.
• You can shape technical solutions while considering business context and delivery risks.
• You are comfortable aligning teams across disciplines when problems are ambiguous.
• You enjoy coaching colleagues and helping develop future engineering leaders.
• Experience with some of the listed software, web, and data technologies may be useful; the posting says candidates need not meet every listed area.