Lob · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$188K/yr - $208K/yr
8+ years expLob is a company transforming the way businesses use direct mail through technology. The Staff Software Engineer will have technical ownership of their team’s domain, influence across Lob’s system, and responsibilities include coding, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.
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Responsibilities
Write high-quality code and tests with strong operational maturity, including supportability, deployment, monitoring, logging, and alerting. Take ownership of system health, identifying ways to improve stability and proactively resolving defects before they become problems
Lead technical design for significant initiatives, make long-term tradeoff decisions, and align designs across teams
Break down complex work, guide teammates to spread knowledge and ownership, and partner with product and engineering managers on short- and long-term planning
Write clear documentation for developers, product partners, and customer-facing use cases when needed
Consult with engineering leadership and fellow staff engineers to establish company-wide engineering goals and initiatives
Participates in planning and execution of team/company’s initiatives
Assists with special projects outside of regular scope, as assigned
Provides backup coverage for other team members during absences
Maintains departmental supply inventory and orders as needed
Attends optional training sessions and industry networking events
Prepares ad-hoc reports upon request
Suggests process improvements for consideration by management
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience as a high-performing software engineer in a role of technical leadership
3+ years experience with cloud-based SaaS systems and service providers, such as AWS, Temporal, Nomad, Datadog, or similar
Strong programming and problem solving skills. We primarily use TypeScript/Node.js; experience with other languages is fine if you can ramp quickly and lead technical decisions
Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g Cursor, Claude, or similar)
Strong communication skills, with the ability to document systems, explain technical tradeoffs to leadership, and educate teams on software best practices
Experience integrating with internal and external systems, tools, and data sources, with an emphasis on correctness, scalability, and long-term maintainability
Experience building or supporting systems that render user-facing output (e.g., web UIs, templates, or generated artifacts) is nice to have
Experience scaling production systems and making informed tradeoffs around data models, performance, and system complexity
Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces, with strong estimating and execution planning skills to turn loosely defined needs into well-scoped work, identify risks, and sequence execution effectively
Benefits
Equity
Perks
Competitive benefits
Company
Lob
Lob provides direct mail and address verification APIs which allows businesses to send personalized mail to their customers.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$82.26MKey Investors
Y Combinator Continuity FundPolaris PartnersY Combinator
2021-02-25Series C· $50M
2019-11-08Series C
2017-05-31Series B· $22.86M
Leadership Team
Harry Zhang
Co-Founder
David Pickel
CFO
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