As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and influence architecture across teams.
As a Staff Engineer, you will act as a technical leader across multiple teams, influencing engineering standards, architecture decisions, and long-term platform strategy.
Key Responsibility
- Technical Leadership
- Lead architecture and design for large-scale, high-impact systems and services.
- Drive engineering best practices across teams including code quality, testing, scalability, and observability.
- Identify and solve complex technical challenges that span multiple services or teams.
- System Design & Scalability
- Design distributed systems and services that are highly scalable, reliable, and secure.
- Improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead initiatives around platform modernization and technical debt reduction.
- Cross-Team Collaboration
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to shape product strategy and technical roadmap.
- Work across teams to align architecture decisions and engineering practices.
- Influence technical direction across the organization.
- Mentorship & Engineering Excellence
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.
- Help raise the overall engineering bar through design reviews, architecture guidance, and technical coaching.
Required Qualifications
- 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience building scalable distributed systems and backend services.
- Expertise in modern backend technologies (commonly used stacks include languages such as Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Python, Go, or similar).
- Deep understanding of:
- System design and architecture
- Microservices and APIs
- Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Database design (SQL and/or NoSQL)
- Experience influencing engineering teams without direct authority.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams.
About FloQast:
FloQast is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform in accounting workflow automation created by actual former accountants for accountants. By streamlining and modernizing daily accounting tasks, FloQast helps teams collaborate more effectively and complete their work with greater efficiency and precision. This cloud-based, AI-powered software is trusted by over 3,000 accounting teams, including those at Snowflake, Twilio, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors—and continues to grow. Our mission is to continuously elevate the accounting profession, enhancing both its practice and perception.
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FloQast, Inc is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin, or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education, and experience. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and strive to provide a professional and welcoming workplace for all employees.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
GCP
Go
Java
Kotlin
NoSQL
Python
Ruby
SQL
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