Staff Software Engineer

About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for writing production code while driving architectural decisions and technical excellence. You will scale the platform, solve complex problems, and mentor other engineers to ensure the team follows best practices. This role requires an expert who thrives in ambiguity and maintains an extreme bias toward execution.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end development of key product features, from database models to UI components.
• Serve as a technical leader and drive best practices across the engineering team.
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and improving development workflows.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions.
• Architect and optimize our systems for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Champion best practices in code quality, testing, and continuous integration/deployment.
• Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks in both technical architecture and team processes.
• Lead large releases to production on a continuous deployment cadence.

Required skills

• Full-stack engineering
• React
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• System design
• API development
• Database architecture

About the Company

Solace is a Series C startup founded in 2022 that aims to simplify the healthcare system by pairing patients with expert advocates. The company is backed by major venture capital firms and maintains a lean, mission-driven team focused on redefining healthcare.