Sr. Staff Engineer (Fullstack/Frontend) in United States Embassy at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Sr. Staff Engineer (Fullstack/Frontend) based in United States.

This role is designed for a highly experienced engineering leader who can define technical direction and shape the future of large-scale customer-facing platforms.
You will drive architectural innovation, establish frontend excellence, and enable teams to build reliable, high-performance digital experiences.
The position combines hands-on technical expertise with organization-wide influence, strategic thinking, and mentorship.
You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business leaders to translate customer needs into scalable solutions.
As a senior technical authority, you will guide engineering standards, improve developer velocity, and solve complex challenges across teams.
This is an opportunity to make a significant impact within a fast-growing environment focused on technology, customer experience, and sustainable growth.

As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across frontend and full-stack systems, shaping architecture, engineering practices, and product capabilities. You will work across teams to improve scalability, reliability, performance, and execution while mentoring engineers and influencing long-term technical strategy.

• Define and evolve the architectural vision for customer-facing frontend systems, ensuring alignment with business objectives and future scalability needs.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives focused on system architecture, design systems, rendering strategies, and foundational UI capabilities.
• Drive frontend engineering excellence by establishing best practices for performance, accessibility, responsiveness, and user experience quality.
• Develop and promote scalable frameworks, patterns, and infrastructure that improve engineering efficiency and delivery velocity.
• Serve as a technical authority for frontend architecture decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, maintainable, observable, testable, and resilient.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to influence product direction and ensure technical strategies support business goals.
• Translate customer needs, product requirements, and user feedback into scalable technical solutions that improve digital experiences.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, fostering engineering excellence, continuous learning, and strong technical standards.
• Lead complex initiatives from strategy through execution, removing blockers, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring successful delivery.
• Identify systemic risks and drive investments in reliability, observability, migrations, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Support product discovery by evaluating technical feasibility, prototyping solutions, and validating new ideas through experimentation.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineering leader with deep frontend expertise, strong architectural experience, and the ability to influence technical decisions across an organization. You should be comfortable balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term scalability, quality, and customer impact.

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership at an organizational level.
• Extensive experience with modern frontend technologies and frameworks such as React, Next.js, and GraphQL.
• Proven ability to build and scale high-performance web applications and customer-facing digital experiences.
• Strong full-stack development capabilities, including backend experience with technologies such as Node.js and Python.
• Deep understanding of UI performance optimization, accessibility standards, responsive design, and frontend best practices.
• Experience creating and scaling shared frontend infrastructure, component libraries, or design systems across multiple teams.
• Track record of driving architectural alignment, engineering improvements, and developer productivity initiatives.
• Ability to translate business and customer requirements into reliable, maintainable, and impactful technical solutions.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and creating clarity to help teams execute effectively.
• Strong mentorship abilities with experience developing senior engineering talent and promoting a culture of feedback and growth.

• Competitive salary and equity compensation package.
• Estimated compensation range of $240,000 - $280,000 for eligible U.S.-based candidates, depending on experience, skills, and location.
• Unlimited paid time off, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid parental leave and family support benefits.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions.
• Remote-first work environment with flexible collaboration options.
• Team offsites and opportunities to connect with colleagues.
• Opportunity to work on impactful technology initiatives within a rapidly growing organization.