Staff Software Engineer

About this role

The Staff Software Engineer provides technical leadership that spans multiple teams and business units within a division, ensuring architectural consistency, guiding cross-team initiatives, and mentoring engineers to raise the technical bar across the organization. This role builds on the team-focused responsibilities of a Lead Engineer and bridges toward the division-wide or deep-specialization responsibilities of a Principal Engineer. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership Across Business Units • Provide architectural direction and oversight for multiple products or teams within a business unit, ensuring systems are designed for scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.

• Identify and address technical challenges that span across teams and require coordination beyond a single product.

• Partner with business unit leadership to align initiatives with division-level strategies and standards.

• Apply strong diagramming and modeling skills to communicate complex system designs, data flows, and architecture decisions clearly across teams and stakeholders.

Collaboration & Influence • Collaborate with Lead Engineers to ensure delivery execution is technically sound and aligned with broader business-unit objectives.

• Work closely with product and business leadership to ensure technical solutions meet current and future business needs.

• Influence technical decisions and build consensus across teams and stakeholders at the business-unit level.

Mentorship & Growth • Mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering professional growth and developing the next generation of technical leaders.

• Promote best practices in design, coding, testing, and operations across multiple teams.

• Serve as a role model for technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Execution & Delivery • Lead the design and implementation of complex, business-unit-wide initiatives, often requiring integration across multiple systems or domains.

• Contribute code directly to projects while working alongside Lead Engineers, ensuring hands-on involvement in delivery and setting a high standard of technical excellence.

• Anticipate long-term technical risks, manage technical debt, and proactively propose improvements.

• Support incident response, helping teams identify root causes and implement systemic fixes that benefit the business unit as a whole.

Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a minimum of 4+ years in a technical leadership role.

• Significant experience architecting, building, and scaling software systems in complex environments.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical efforts across multiple teams or products.

• Strong ability to evaluate trade-offs and guide teams toward solutions that balance business needs with technical integrity.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.

• Track record of mentoring and developing engineers at multiple levels.

• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, architecture, and operational excellence, independent of any specific technology stack.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the major job responsibilities (essential functions) of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major job responsibilities. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job. • Use Hands to Handle Objects - Regularly • Reach with Hands or Arms - Regularly • Talk or Hear and Read Instructions - Regularly • Stand, Kneel, or Stoop and Lift 20 Pounds - Occasionally • View Items at a Close Range - Regularly

Rarely : Job requires this activity up to 25% of the time Occasionally : Job requires this activity between 25% - 50% of the time Frequently : Job requires this activity between 50% - 75% of the time Constantly : Job requires this activity more than 75% of the time

Individual Competencies • Authenticity: Departmental oversight including goal setting, budget management, and results. • Innovative: Arrives at decision using analytical thought. • Urgency: Expertise in their discipline and understands these concepts in other disciplines. • Accountability: Entire organization. • Communication: Contributes to strategy for their team. • Problem Solving: Completes routine and repetitive tasks where tasks are straightforward. • Teamwork: Advanced communication skills used to lead a team. • Collaboration: Creates internal alliances outside the immediate team or department.

As an Inmar Associate, you: • Put clients first and consistently display a positive attitude and behaviors that demonstrate an awareness and willingness to listen and respond to clients in order to meet their short-term and long-term needs, requirements and exceed their expectations. • Treat clients and teammates with courtesy, consideration and tact; you also have the ability to perceive the needs of internal and external clients and communicate effectively with the objective of delighting and retaining the client. • Build collaborative relationships and work cooperatively with others, inside and outside the organization, to accomplish objectives, develop and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships, leverage information and achieve results. • Set and attain achievable, yet aggressive, goals with a sense of urgency and accountability. • Understand that results are important and focus on turning mission into action to achieve results following the principles of Flawless Execution while consistently complying with quality, service and productivity standards to meet deadlines and exceed expectations by giving our clients the best possible ou

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