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Standard Bots · 2 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$210K/yr - $300K/yr

8+ years exp

Standard Bots is focused on lowering the barrier to entry for real-world automation, enabling users to solve challenges without needing a background in robotics. The Staff Software Engineer will define the long-term technical vision, lead complex projects across multiple teams, and mentor other engineers to elevate the overall technical capabilities of the organization.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyRoboticsSoftware

Responsibilities

Define the Future: Own the long-term technical vision and strategy for major components of our platform, anticipating future scale, security, and product needs a year or more out

Decouple and Scale: Design and champion new system architectures that focus on clear, stable interfaces and domain decoupling to accelerate the velocity of multiple feature teams

Standard Setter: Establish and improve engineering excellence standards, including best practices for code quality, documentation, and the non-functional requirements (performance, reliability) that systems must meet

Drive Multi-Team Programs: Proactively identify, define, and lead complex, ambiguous, and high-risk technical programs (e.g., major platform refactors, organizational-level reliability efforts) that require coordination across 2-3 engineering teams

Pragmatic Trade-Offs: Cut through organizational and technical complexity, making clear, pragmatic technical trade-offs that balance long-term vision with timely delivery against business goals

Hands-on Delivery: Deliver technically deep, cross-cutting software solutions, primarily focusing on back-end systems but maintaining the necessary full-stack perspective to drive end-to-end integration

Systemic Reliability: Drive deep-dive root cause analyses (RCA) for critical, cross-domain production issues, transforming immediate crises into concrete, prioritized engineering work that prevents recurrence across the fleet

Technical Multiplier: Mentor and coach Senior and Mid-Level engineers across the organization, significantly contributing to their technical growth and thereby increasing the overall efficiency and quality of the engineering department

Influence & Accountability: Reliably improve and hold others accountable for a higher quality standard (e.g., reliability, performance, security) across the entire software team

Qualification

System DesignTech Stack ExpertiseCross-Functional InfluenceComplex Project LeadershipClarity of CommunicationProactive SimplicityMentoring

Required

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale, complex projects that span multiple engineering teams

At least 1 year of experience as a staff engineer in a large software organization

Deep expertise in architecting, developing, and operating distributed, highly-reliable, and scalable systems

Proven ability to influence technical direction without direct authority and successfully partner with product management, hardware engineering, and executive leadership

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of synthesizing complex technical risks and strategies for non-technical leadership

A relentless drive to reduce complexity, improve operational simplicity, and proactively identify organizational-level technical risks and address them before they become crises