Wave HQ - Staff Engineer
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Responsibilities
• Here's How You Make an Impact: • Organizational Strategy: • Drive the evolution of Wave’s technical landscape. • Translate complex business requirements into a sustainable technical roadmap that anticipates future growth and minimizes structural friction. • System Stewardship: • Drive the cross-domain architectural strategy for the domain(s)/ pillar. You are accountable for the technical integrity of the entire domain, ensuring that individual service designs roll up into a cohesive, scalable system. • Identify systemic complexities and streamlining them to improve organization-wide delivery. This includes defining clear boundaries and promoting modularity across our stack, ensuring that product squads can ship features without being blocked by legacy dependencies. • Balance the "Goldilocks" of refactoring—knowing when to perform a surgical fix to unblock a product launch and when to invest in a long-term architectural overhaul. • Technical Authority: • Act as a final point of escalation for complex technical decisions • Evaluate emerging technologies and internal proposals, balancing immediate product needs with the long-term health of our ecosystem. • Engineering Excellence: • Define and advocate for the standards that govern our craft. • Monitor the health of our engineering practices, using data to identify areas where our execution or values are drifting and taking proactive steps to realign them. • Cross-Functional Partnership: • Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and Executive leadership to shape the vision of your pillar. • Ensure that engineering is not just executing on tasks, but actively driving the business forward. • Innovation & Future-Proofing: • Lead the charge on integrating transformative technologies, such as AI, into our development lifecycle and product offerings to amplify impact and efficiency. • Leadership & Influence: • Elevate the collective capability of the engineering team by resolving high-stakes technical friction, and mentoring senior talent to foster a culture of rigorous design and high-velocity execution. • You Thrive Here by Possessing the Following: • Extensive Technical Track Record: A degree in engineering, computer sciences, or related, and 10+ years of experience in high-scale application development or building sophisticated internal developer platforms and tooling. • Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to define long-term technical vision and translate it into actionable strategies aligned with evolving business goals, with a strong track record of making high-stakes decisions that balance immediate delivery with sustainable, future-ready architecture. • Systems Architecture: Deep expertise in designing, deploying, and maintaining resilient distributed systems within complex, multi-domain environments. • Systems Thinking: The ability to look at a sprawling technical environment and find the hidden dependencies or bottlenecks that slow everyone down. • Organizational Influence: A master of "leading without authority" - adept at building consensus, managing diverse stakeholders, and resolving high-level technical friction across multiple teams. • Engineering Stewardship: A vocal advocate for engineering excellence. You elevate the entire team through high-quality documentation, reference implementations, and mentorship. • Developer Experience (DX) Obsession: A deep understanding of the developer lifecycle and proven ability to identify bottlenecks and eliminate them through custom tooling, automation, or process refinement. • Cross-Functional Partnership: Experience working as a strategic peer to Product and Design to ensure technical constraints and opportunities are integrated into the product roadmap. • Operational Ownership: A "builder-operator" mindset, including the willingness to participate in an on-call rotation to support the health of the systems you influence. • Proven Scale: Experience navigating the technical challenges of a rapidly growing business where "what worked yesterday" is no longer sufficient. • $180,000 - $188,000 a year • Final compensation is determined based on experience, expertise, and role alignment. Most candidates are hired within the middle of the range, with the upper end reserved for those bringing exceptional depth, impact, and immediate autonomy. • Bonus Structure
Benefits
• Health & Wellness Flex Account • Professional Development Account • Wellness Days • Holiday Shutdown • Wave Days (extra vacation days in the summer) • Get A-Wave Program (work from anywhere in the world up to 90 days) • Visit our site to find out more about life at Wave! • At Wave, we value diversity of perspective. Your unique experience enriches our organization. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Let’s talk about how you can thrive here! • Wave is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible candidate experience. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. We will work with you to meet your needs. • We use Google Gemini, a secure AI assistant, during interviews for note-taking purposes only. Notes are kept confidential and are not shared outside the hiring process. This allows our interviewers to stay fully focused on you during the conversation.
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