Top Staff Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.

Design, build, and operate Zocdoc's internal developer platform, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling to improve developer productivity, safety, and reliability. Collaborate across teams to deliver platform investments end-to-end, drive adoption, advance AI-assisted development capabilities, mentor engineers, and ensure platform patterns meet security and compliance requirements.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead technical strategy for the Cash App Banking team, collaborate on solutions, mentor engineers, and focus on robust, scalable systems for consumer banking needs.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Leads technical direction and develops fullstack purchase experiences using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js. Designs resilient transactional flows, integrates billing and CRM systems, improves reliability and rollout safety, mentors engineers, reviews code, reduces technical debt, and participates in incident response. Partners with Product, Design, Billing, and Support to improve GitLab’s purchase, subscription, discount, and upgrade workflows.

The Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer will build and maintain child care management software, focusing on both backend and frontend development, while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include designing APIs, improving user experience, and managing technical debt.

Responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure for a child care business platform, focusing on scalability, security, and developer tools. Collaborates to enhance deployment, optimize build processes, and maintain logging and monitoring systems.

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical discussions, drive complex feature implementation, mentor team members, and innovate using new technologies.

Design, build, test, and operate Gusto core customer-facing products across frontend and backend. Own multi-quarter projects, scale Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React systems, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data, design, and platform teams, and iterate on features that deliver measurable customer impact.

Lead full‑stack development for Gusto's Time and Scheduling product: design, build, test, and iterate frontend and backend systems. Mentor engineers, own multi‑quarter projects, address large‑scale refactors, performance and reliability, and collaborate with product, design, data, and platform teams to deliver customer‑focused features.

Lead and contribute to the Flights platform by designing and building scalable, high-performance Java/Spring Boot services on cloud infrastructure, driving end-to-end features, mentoring engineers, improving reliability and developer experience, and collaborating with product and design to deliver business impact.

The Backend Product Engineer will enhance the Radar platform, manage API traffic, engage with customers, and work across various backend technologies to drive product success.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Design and implement a distributed query optimization system for MongoDB. Research query systems, architect features, write and review production-quality C++ code, debug large codebases, coordinate cross-team integrations, and mentor engineers while shaping long-term roadmap and performance improvements.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Salesforce Apex solutions supporting Sales and Customer Experience teams. Use AI coding assistants throughout development, apply Salesforce architecture and release-management practices, deploy with sf CLI, and build reliable production systems at scale. Improve deployed features, measure impact, document code, and contribute beyond Salesforce when needed. Translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions and business value.

The Principal Engineer will lead technical direction across multiple teams, design architecture for financial systems, mentor engineers, and drive multi-year transformations in the Money Group.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and test Gusto's core platform services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with various teams to solve complex engineering problems.

Lead design and evolution of Hex's graph-based compute execution architecture. Optimize parallel execution, caching, and remote warehouse interactions. Instrument and diagnose performance, author technical proposals, mentor engineers, and roadmap long-term platform designs while remaining hands-on in backend code.

Staff Software Engineer leading insurance and cost-transparency features for a healthcare marketplace. Responsibilities include technical leadership, system design, roadmap ownership, hands-on development with C#, React, and AWS, mentoring engineers, improving engineering practices, collaborating cross-functionally, and delivering scalable, highly available products. The role requires strong product judgment, distributed backend systems expertise, developer productivity improvements, and experience working with third-party vendors and data providers.

Build and own foundational Android platform infrastructure, shared libraries, architecture, observability, performance tooling, and developer workflows. Lead cross-organizational technical initiatives, integrate AI-assisted development practices and tools, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across mobile, web, backend, product, and design teams.

Build and own foundational Android platform infrastructure, shared libraries, frameworks, architecture, observability, and performance tooling used across Cash App. Lead cross-organizational technical initiatives, promote AI-native engineering practices, evaluate AI development tools, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Android, iOS, web, backend, product, and design teams.