swap - Staff Software Engineer
Requirements
• Significant experience (typically 8+ years) building and shipping production software, with a record of leading complex initiatives that cross team lines. • Deep expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js, including architecting REST and/or GraphQL APIs and distributed systems. • Comfort outside your home language and stack. We expect Staff engineers to be T-shaped. • Strong relational database, data modelling, and SQL skills, plus familiarity with NoSQL. • Experience designing for reliability and scale in the cloud, with solid CI/CD, observability, and incident-response practices. • Hands-on experience with LLMs or agentic systems, or a track record of picking up new technology fast and applying it sensibly. • Daily use of AI coding tools, with a sense for when to trust them and when not to. • Experience in eCommerce systems and platforms is preferred. • Excellent written and verbal communication. You can explain trade-offs in business terms to any audience. • A team player with a bias for ownership: you bring a solution along with the problem, and work isn’t done until it’s live and stable.
Responsibilities
• Lead large initiatives that run for several quarters and involve multiple teams, from first scoping through to production. • Write exemplar code in critical paths, setting the implementation bar for the wider group. • Review important designs from other teams, helping engineers balance quality, speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability. • Define and uphold operational standards for the group: monitoring, availability, scalability, security, release safety, and cost awareness. Help lead serious incidents and follow through on the right fixes. • Lead tool evaluations and architecture migrations, making build-vs-buy trade-offs explicit. • Use AI well beyond the basics, and push back on AI-generated complexity so code health holds as we speed up. • Own the business result of your work. Define success metrics, monitor after launch, and challenge constructively when something won’t move the needle for merchants. • Mentor Senior Engineers and below, and lead or join senior-level interviews. • Write and improve the documentation others rely on, such as architecture direction, decision records, and runbooks.
Benefits
• 💰 Competitive base salary: Pay that reflects your experience and the impact you’ll have, reviewed regularly as you grow with us. • 📈 Stock options: Own a piece of what we’re building. As a high-growth scale-up, you’ll share in the upside as the company grows. • 🏖️ Generous PTO: Competitive annual leave, with public holidays on top, plus your birthday off so you can celebrate properly. • 🏥 Private healthcare: Comprehensive private medical cover, so you can get the care you need quickly. • 🏦 Pension contributions: Company contributions to help you build long-term financial security. • 🧘 Wellness benefits: Support for your physical health and wellbeing, so you can look after yourself in the way that works for you. • 💚 Mental health support: Access to mental health resources and support, because looking after your mind matters as much as your body. • 👶 Enhanced maternity and paternity leave: Extra support when you’re growing your family, so you can focus on what matters most. • 🏡 Flexible working: Choose how and where you do your best work, with the trust and autonomy to manage your own time. • ✈️ Work abroad for 4 weeks a year: Take your laptop somewhere new for up to four weeks each year, whether that’s family, travel, or a change of scenery. • 🎉 Quarterly team offsite budget: A dedicated budget each quarter for your team to get together, connect, and have fun. • 🍻 Thursday happy hour: Wind down the week with your colleagues at our Thursday happy hour, held across all of our locations. • 🥞 Breakfast Mondays: Start the week with a good meal and good company. • Diversity & Equal Opportunities: • We embrace diversity and equality in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills, and views. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Creating a culture of equality isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing.
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