Staff Software Engineer
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Key details
- Salary
- $231K–$340K/yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Senior
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5–8 yrs
- Function
- Software engineering
- Focus area
- Frontend
- Posted
- 1w ago
Skills
About the role
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Guide the technical direction of a document-editing plug-in and related integrations, owning design decisions from early architecture through production release. This senior role suits an engineer with years of hands-on experience delivering browser-hosted plug-ins at scale, who will also coach other engineers and partner closely with product, design and backend colleagues.
What you'll do
- Guide the technical direction of a document-editing plug-in and sibling integrations for a productivity suite.
- Build AI-assisted editing features covering automated document rewrites, reviewable markup and rule-based review automation.
- Coordinate API and interface decisions with product, design, server-side and document engine colleagues.
- Architect dependable code that runs across desktop platforms and the web, managing host differences and version compatibility.
- Take features from design through production release, with polished interactions and graceful failure handling.
- Extend work into adjacent email integrations and help design next-generation AI interfaces across the company's productivity tools.
- Coach fellow engineers and set high standards for quality and developer tooling.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Usually five or more years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven delivery of production plug-ins built with a JavaScript add-in framework at scale.
- Background at large technology companies or fast-moving, high-growth startups.
- Solid front-end engineering skills in TypeScript or JavaScript, along with markup and styling.
- Working knowledge of host-application plug-in architecture, API version sets, configuration files and multi-platform constraints.
- Demonstrated success delivering fast, refined software that users depend on every day.
Bonus points
- Familiarity with document engines, open document XML formats or change-tracking and revision markup.
- Background in enterprise software or SaaS products.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $231K - $340K
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States; New York, NY, United States; Toronto, ON, Canada; or Chicago, IL, United States
- Hybrid, with in-office hubs in these cities
- Remote may be considered for exceptional candidates, depending on location
- Full-time