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Staff Software Engineer

Software Engineer

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the delivery of the Shop Builder developer surface, mentor a team of engineers, and contribute to significant technical implementations. You will also be responsible for cross-team coordination, setting engineering standards, and contributing to hiring efforts.

About the role

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the delivery of the Shop Builder developer surface, leading a team of engineers, and contributing significantly to implementation. This role involves setting technical direction, ensuring engineering quality, and collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Drive the delivery of the Shop Builder developer surface, including MCP server, CLI and local dev environment, public SDK, documentation pipeline, sandbox and preview environments, and deploy and versioning path.
Lead and mentor a team of three engineers, setting technical direction, running code reviews, and ensuring consistent engineering quality.
Own cross-team coordination, identifying and integrating inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog teams; unblocking dependencies; and managing integration timelines.
Actively contribute to implementation by shipping production code alongside the team, particularly on critical and complex components.
Partner with the Principal Engineer to translate architecture decisions into sprint-level execution plans and realistic timelines.
Collaborate with the Product Owner on roadmap sequencing, scope decisions, and trade-offs between speed and correctness.
Own the team's delivery rhythm, including sprint planning, technical grooming, retrospectives, and status visibility to engineering and business leadership.
Define and maintain the team's engineering standards: testing strategy, observability, deployment practices, and documentation quality.
Act as the primary technical contact for integrations with headless partners and the MIT professional services team during early partner onboarding.
Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews and defining what great looks like for new engineers joining the team.

About the role

About the Role

Responsibilities

Drive the delivery of the Shop Builder developer surface, including MCP server, CLI and local dev environment, public SDK, documentation pipeline, sandbox and preview environments, and deploy and versioning path.
Lead and mentor a team of three engineers, setting technical direction, running code reviews, and ensuring consistent engineering quality.
Own cross-team coordination, identifying and integrating inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog teams; unblocking dependencies; and managing integration timelines.
Actively contribute to implementation by shipping production code alongside the team, particularly on critical and complex components.
Partner with the Principal Engineer to translate architecture decisions into sprint-level execution plans and realistic timelines.
Collaborate with the Product Owner on roadmap sequencing, scope decisions, and trade-offs between speed and correctness.
Own the team's delivery rhythm, including sprint planning, technical grooming, retrospectives, and status visibility to engineering and business leadership.
Define and maintain the team's engineering standards: testing strategy, observability, deployment practices, and documentation quality.
Act as the primary technical contact for integrations with headless partners and the MIT professional services team during early partner onboarding.
Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews and defining what great looks like for new engineers joining the team.