We9re growing, and looking for Staff Software Engineers to ship critical features and make key drive key infrastructure changes. As a Staff Engineer at Vendelux, you will help shape the technical strategy for our products and systems. This is a full-time position based out of NYC. We have a NYC HQ, and our preference is to have engineers come in a hybrid set up with an expectation of 4 days in office. It reports directly to our Head of Engineering. **Scope of Responsibilities** - Be the technical owner for features end-to-end, including the systems that power our data platforms and best-in-class web application - Ship high quality, secure, and well-tested software that scales as highly distributed systems, using incremental deliveries based on data driven prioritization and decisions - Solve interesting and challenging technical problems, coordinating technical roadmap deliveries across our product team and front end engineers - Collaborate with our operations and revenue teams, as well as our users to respond, react, and plan feature delivery based on user feedback and analytics - Identify opportunities to work across our stack, and areas of the business, to help meet the needs of a quickly scaling business and product - Work closely with our leadership team to define our product roadmap and technical strategy, and continuously improve our development process and engineering practices - Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team - Mentor a growing team of engineers through pair programming and code reviews, on performant, scalable engineering principles, with a focus on iterative delivery **Tech Stack** - Frontend: Typescript, React, MUI/Shadcn, Node.js - Backend: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP - Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake - Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor / Claude Code **Qualifications** - 10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript - Track record of shaping and shipping valuable features - Track record of driving high-leverage improvements to infrastructure and process - Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate - Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development - Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills - The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast-paced work - Nice-to-have: Previous startup experience - Nice-to-have: DevOps or platform/infrastructure experience (or deep interest) - Nice-to-have: Experience with AI prototyping tools like v0, Lovable, Replit, etc. Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above and that9s ok! We are open to great people from non-traditional backgrounds.