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Foodsmart is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own and evolve end-to-end architecture across frontend (web), mobile, backend services, and data platforms. This is a full-stack leadership role with company-wide technical scope.
You will design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting millions of users and sensitive healthcare data. Key responsibilities include:
**Full Stack Architecture & Platform Design**: Own end-to-end architecture spanning frontend, mobile, backend, and data platforms. Design systems meeting enterprise-grade requirements for availability, performance, observability, and compliance. Lead design reviews and author RFCs for complex cross-team initiatives.
**Frontend Engineering (Web)**: Build modern web applications using React and TypeScript. Define frontend architectural standards for state management, API patterns, component structure, performance, and accessibility. Partner with design and product to deliver high-quality user experiences.
**Mobile Engineering (iOS / Android / React Native)**: Contribute to and influence architecture for mobile applications. Collaborate on mobile-specific patterns including offline support, caching, push notifications, deep linking, and analytics. Ensure mobile experiences are secure, performant, and consistent across platforms.
**Backend & Data Engineering**: Design and maintain high-performance APIs (REST and event-based) serving web, mobile, and partner integrations. Build durable SQL and NoSQL data models with strong reliability and scalability guarantees. Develop backend systems using TypeScript/Node.js and AWS-native services (Lambda, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, EC2). Partner with security and compliance teams to implement HIPAA-aware and privacy-first designs.
**AI-Enabled Engineering Practices**: Champion AI-assisted workflows across design, implementation, testing, and DevOps. Establish guardrails for responsible AI usage. Identify opportunities to embed AI/ML capabilities into product systems for personalization, automation, and workflow optimization.
**DevOps, Reliability & Scalability**: Drive cloud-native architecture practices using Docker and Kubernetes. Strengthen CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code. Establish best practices for observability, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.
**Cross-Team Influence & Delivery Leadership**: Collaborate with product, design, data, clinical, and business teams to translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions. Influence roadmap decisions through strong technical insight. Lead cross-team initiatives ensuring alignment on architecture and delivery.
**Mentorship & Engineering Excellence**: Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on system design and full stack best practices. Raise engineering standards through code reviews and technical coaching. Drive adoption of shared libraries and platform capabilities across teams.
**Requirements**:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful ownership of full stack systems in production
- Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives across frontend, backend, and/or mobile domains
- Experience influencing architecture and technical direction beyond a single team
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript across backend and frontend systems
- Deep experience building modern web applications using React
- Experience with mobile applications (native iOS/Android and/or React Native)
- Strong understanding of frontend performance optimization, accessibility, and scalable UI architecture
- Strong experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures
- Advanced knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and familiarity with NoSQL systems
- Strong AWS experience (Lambda, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, EC2, IAM, networking)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency, caching, concurrency, fault tolerance)
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, CI/CD, QA automation, and DevOps best practices
- Proven ability to lead through influence rather than authority
- Clear, structured communicator capable of explaining complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- Track record of driving adoption of shared standards, platforms, or engineering best practices
**Bonus/Nice to Have**:
- Experience in healthcare, fintech, or other regulated domains
- Experience with HIPAA compliance, PHI security, and privacy-first design
- Exposure to low-code platforms like Retool
- Experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Redshift)
- Experience working with globally distributed teams
- Experience building design systems or shared UI component libraries
