WorkWhile - Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack
Requirements
• Strong working fluency across the stack, with the ability to lead product work beyond your primary area of expertise • A product-minded approach to engineering — you care deeply about user outcomes, not just technical elegance • Proven ability to operate in ambiguity: framing problems, proposing options, and guiding teams toward pragmatic solutions • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical and product direction across disciplines • Experience mentoring engineers and raising team-wide technical quality (people management not required) • Experience working on marketplace, fintech, or data-sensitive products • Background in scaling early-stage products or evolving systems as usage grows • Interest in shaping engineering practices and standards as the team scales • Engineering @ WorkWhile • We’re a small and mighty team with senior engineers from Rippling, Stripe, DoorDash, Faire among others • We value user-centricity, competence, speed, and having fun • We embrace independence and take ownership of our projects, yet are also great team players • We deal in outcomes, not projects • Read more about our team at https://tech.workwhile.ai/
Responsibilities
• Own and evolve complex, user-facing product areas end-to-end - from product definition and system design to implementation, launch, and iteration • Partner closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape roadmap decisions and translate ambiguous problems into durable solutions • Lead high-leverage initiatives that span frontend, backend, and data concerns, setting clear technical direction and guiding execution • Make thoughtful tradeoffs between user experience, system complexity, and delivery speed in a fast-moving product environment • Raise the bar on product quality, system correctness, and engineering craft across the stack • Act as a force multiplier for the team: reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and unblocking others
Benefits
• SF/NY/Seattle$150K – $250K • Offers Equity • TorontoCA$165K – CA$310K • Offers Equity • This range represents the good-faith estimate of the base salary/wage we reasonably expect to pay at the time of hire. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including seniority, experience, skills, and geography. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here
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