Staff Software Engineer (Freelance)
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemoteContractSenior LevelBachelors Degree
ContractSenior LevelBachelors Degree
Job Summary
Set technical strategy for a high-traffic e-commerce platform by co-owning engineering and AI initiatives that shift how teams build. Create guardrails and autonomous agent workflows to improve developer productivity while mitigating security challenges on a site handling millions of users. Identify and remove critical blockers in distributed systems, balancing architectural decisions with hands-on contributions to establish technical standards across the organization.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience
- at least 6 years of relevant experience building scalable distributed systems in a high-paced environment
- Experience planning, architecting and developing high-traffic and distributed systems, through technical roadmaps while balancing product needs
- ideally operating as a staff engineer, technical leader, or similar role
- Hands-on experience driving AI fluency across an organization, team or process
- Experience driving cross-team collaboration by coaching and pairing with engineers, and a successful track record of raising the technical bar
- A strong sense of balance of engineering, product, security and compliance knowledge
- Familiarity with our tech stack: Next.js, React.js, Node.js and AWS
- Experience working on platform teams or DX teams
- Developing internal libraries focused on improving developer experience, stability, code quality, AI adoption, or similar
Desired Qualifications
- Improving AI adoption through internal tools, skills, or plugin development
- Re-design of development workflows that boost developer productivity, code quality or process simplification
- Enablement of autonomous agents through agentic systems or loops
- Raising the AI adoption bar through DX programs, e.g., AI-awareness to AI-native
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