Transparent Search Group · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $300K/yr
6+ years expTransparent Search Group is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack to take ownership of mission-critical product and payments-adjacent systems. The role involves leading high-stakes initiatives, building full-stack product surfaces, and mentoring junior engineers in a senior engineering environment.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Leading ambiguous, high-stakes initiatives from design production iteration
Building and owning full-stack product surfaces (frontend + backend)
Designing APIs and services tied to real financial workflows
Making hard tradeoffs between speed, correctness, and scale
Working directly with product, growth, and customer stakeholders
Mentoring by example — no org charts, no theatre
Leaving systems materially better than you found them
Qualification
Required
6–15 years of professional engineering experience
Proven Staff-level ownership of real systems (not just influence)
Strong full-stack capability
Hands-on React or Ruby on Rails experience (at least one)
Background in B2B SaaS, fintech, marketplace, or payments-adjacent products
Experience shipping and operating production software used by real customers
Comfort operating without perfect information
Hybrid required
Major U.S. & Canadian tech hubs
~3 days/week in the office on average
Remote-only candidates should not apply
Preferred
Early or growth-stage startup experience
Built something, lived with it, improved it
Product-minded engineers who care about outcomes, not abstractions
Experience working close to customers, partners, or revenue
Include one project you personally led end-to-end: What you built, What broke, What you fixed, What you'd do differently now
Benefits
Equity: $200k–$400k in meaningful ownership
Company
Transparent Search Group
Creating value through calibration and innovation
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase