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Staff Software Engineer

Dice

Field · full time · Staff

$160,000 – $180,000

Listed on Dice’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A hands-on staff-level engineering role rebuilding the technical platform for a tech job marketplace, balancing architecture and mentorship while shipping real features alongside the team. Suits experienced engineers who thrive in ambiguity, think product-first, and want to multiply their impact through other engineers.

Our summary, not Dice’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Production-grade full-stack systems across backend, data, and cloud
  • Product and UX-driven approach to technical decisions
  • Data modeling and schema fundamentals
  • AI coding agents as core part of development workflow
  • High-impact multi-team, multi-quarter project ownership
  • Close involvement in code and shipping
  • Setting architectural direction and mentoring engineers
  • Clear written communication for cross-team consensus

Nice to have

  • Technical strategy and multi-domain initiative leadership
  • LLM tooling applied to data problems like enrichment and classification
  • Event-driven and microservice architecture experience
  • Legacy system modernization while managing technical debt
  • Cloud-native performance tuning and cost optimization
  • Highly available consumer-facing SaaS or marketplace experience
  • Python and/or Java proficiency across paradigms

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