Staff Software Engineer (Remote, Node/AWS/React) (USC or GC Only)
Optomi, in partnership with a late-stage technology startup, is seeking two Staff Engineers to help build and scale innovative solutions within the property technology space.
The company is modernizing the way people interact with and manage the rental experience, leveraging data, automation, and technology to streamline processes for property managers and improve the experience for residents. With a rapidly growing platform and a strong focus on innovation, the team is building scalable products that are shaping the future of a more connected, data-driven housing ecosystem.
This is an opportunity to join a high-growth organization at an exciting stage of its evolution and play a key role in building technology that will have a meaningful impact across the industry.
Current 12 approved states for hiring: NC, FL, GA, MD, MI, MN, IL, NE, SC, TN, TX, VA.
The Role
We are hunting for exceptional Staff Software Engineers to drive the technical evolution of our platform. As a key technical leader, you will masterfully balance high-level architecture, performance, and scalability with hands-on coding. At the Staff level, you will tackle our most complex engineering puzzles. You will refine our architectural blueprint, design massive cloud systems, and mentor the next generation of engineers. If you are passionate about building robust, interactive platforms with a modern tech stack, we want to talk to you!
Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Serve as the technical anchor and a go-to expert for your cross-functional team(s).
- External Liaison: Act as the primary technical contact when troubleshooting complex issues with high-profile client engineering teams.
- Strategic Planning: Partner with Engineering leaders and Product to break down large, ambiguous technical initiatives into shippable milestones.
- AI Centric: Demonstrate a willingness to explore, innovate, and build technical solutions with AI assisted engineering practices and technology.
- Technical Complexity: Partner with Engineering and Product to assess the feasibility of new features and estimate technical complexity.
- Architect Solutions: Architect resilient, scalable, and secure environments in AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Technical Bridge: Bridge the technical gap between product requirements and execution readiness by hardening solution proposals, creating clear design documentation and removing impediments.
- Reliability & Troubleshooting: Drive observability initiatives using AWS CloudWatch or Datadog to trace errors from the client browser down to the database query.
- Mentorship & Culture: Elevate the engineering team by mentoring mid-level and senior engineers through code reviews, design docs, and technical deep dives. Foster a culture of continuous learning and blameless post-mortems
Requirements
- Experience Needed: 8+ years of software development experience, with at least 4 years deeply focused on the TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem including a proven track record in a lead or staff level role.
- TypeScript Mastery: Possess extensive expertise in React, TypeScript, Next.js, Nest.js and/or modern web technologies.
- AWS & Cloud Infrastructure: Practical experience with AWS core services (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, CloudFront).
- Database Proficiency: Strong SQL skills; experience with ORMs (Prisma, TypeORM) and understanding the trade-offs between them and raw SQL.
- Ai Expertise: Hands-on experience building with AI — whether that's LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows.
- Outcome Focused: Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure.
- Lead by Example: Strong leadership skills with experience in mentoring and guiding teams.
- Partnership Success: Excellent communication and collaboration abilities that enable internal and external partnership success.
- Action oriented: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while making timely, well-informed decisions with a willingness to experiment and learn from actions and customer feedback.
- Travel: Must be willing to travel to Charlotte, NC or other US locations 3 - 6 times per year for in person meetings, collaboration, training, and team development.
Bonus Points
- Experience with Monorepo architectures and tooling.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
- Experience with GraphQL or tRPC for type-safe API communication.
- Open source contributions to the React or TypeScript ecosystem.
- Prior experience in growth stage technology companies.
