Staff Engineer

How You’ll Make An Impact
Guide the strategic evolution of core and new systems, establishing clear boundaries, leading migrations, and enabling resilient architecture that scales and adapts to business needs now and for the future
Influence product and business strategy through deep understanding of our systems and products by identifying risks, constraints and opportunities
Foster alignment across the organization by building trust between pods & business partners, refining priorities and ensuring the engineering strategy supports customer and company goals
Partner closely with other Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Designs and Data to steer and shape the organization
Assess and introduce new technologies thoughtfully, including AI and automation tools, through research, prototypes, written briefs and, most importantly, ensuring alignment with our strategy and standards
Lead the org’s technical approach to AI: evaluate where it creates genuine leverage, define how we use it responsibly, and raise the bar on how engineers at TFD apply it in their day-to-day work
Work with departments across the organization to ensure a cohesive experience across all of our digital and physical products for our customers
Develop deep expertise in how data flows across our systems and domains, using that understanding to guide architectural boundaries and integration decisions
Continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence by modeling high standards, mentoring & coaching engineers at all levels and driving best practices throughout the organization.

We’re Excited About You Because
You bring 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep and varied expertise designing and evolving systems at scale
You’ve led architectural initiatives that reshaped systems and made them more reliable, maintainable, and extensible
You’ve partnered closely with product on business strategy and have helped organizations balance and build short and long term strategy
You are able to succeed in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, naturally curious and proactive self-starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions
You thrive at working across teams, aligning people and systems, and driving impact beyond your immediate scope
You have a clear-eyed view of AI; you know where it accelerates great engineering and where it introduces risk, and you help teams navigate the differences
You mentor and elevate other senior engineers
You’re an owner, have excellent problem-solving skills and can prioritize tasks effectively, with a strong attention to detail
You’re a skilled communicator and have the ability to absorb and distill complexity into simple terms to drive decision making.
You love dogs.