Staff Software Engineer

Fazeshift is hiring a Staff Engineer to set the technical direction for the company. This is our most senior individual-contributor role: you'll operate across squads and systems, own the architecture decisions that shape our product for years, and raise the engineering bar for everyone around you. You won't just build features — you'll define what we build, how we build it, and how we keep it reliable as we scale. You'll work closely with founders as a true technical partner.

• Set technical direction across systems — identify the highest-leverage problems and architect solutions that span the full stack

• Drive complex, cross-cutting initiatives end-to-end: schema design, migrations, backfills, and safe rollouts across Prisma and MySQL, including the hardest correctness- and uptime-sensitive changes

• Establish and evolve engineering standards company-wide — system design reviews, incident response, runbooks, observability, and the practices that keep a high-stakes product reliable

• Multiply the team: mentor senior and mid-level engineers, lead architectural reviews, and elevate the quality of work across the org

• Partner directly with founders on product strategy, technical trade-offs, and long-range planning — translating ambiguous business goals into technical roadmaps

• Make build-vs-buy and platform decisions that balance speed today against maintainability tomorrow

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a substantial track record owning production systems where correctness and uptime are critical (payments, fintech, identity, fraud, infrastructure, or similar high-stakes domains)

• Demonstrated impact at the staff level: setting technical direction that influenced multiple teams or an entire product, not just your own squad

• Expert TypeScript skills across the full stack, with deep fluency in modern React patterns and Next.js (Pages Router)

• Deep experience with relational databases and ORM-based schema management (Prisma or similar), including large-scale migrations and data integrity at scale

• Exceptional instincts around API design, system reliability, scalability, and developer experience — and the judgment to know which trade-offs matter

• Experience at an early-stage startup, and the ability to thrive amid ambiguity and rapid change

• A proven record of mentoring engineers and raising the engineering bar across a team or org

• The highest-ownership mindset — you find the problems that matter and drive them to resolution without being asked

• Hands-on experience with Inngest or other event-driven/workflow orchestration tools

• Experience scaling a SaaS product from early users through meaningful ARR

• Background in fintech, revenue operations, or B2B SaaS

• Experience defining engineering org structure, hiring bars, or technical career frameworks

TypeScript · Next.js · tRPC · Prisma · Zod · Inngest · MySQL

• Competitive salary ($275K – $345K) and significant equity

• Full benefits (medical, dental, vision)

• Flexible PTO

• Direct impact on product and company direction from day one