Staff Engineer (Backend)

Staff Engineer to lead initiatives, develop strategies, and manage projects, requiring backend engineering experience and cloud services knowledge.

As a Staff Engineer in the Consumer space, you'll work across our three Consumer teams - Voice, Decisions, and Reach - plus our Design Systems team, shaping how millions of people experience Trustpilot.

What you’ll be doing:

Lead the delivery of major initiatives, balancing timely delivery with sustainable engineering practices
Bring together the work of various teams and individuals into a cohesive, achievable plan aligned with company goals, key milestone deadlines and user experience standards
You use your skill set to improve Trustpilot’s capabilities in your domain.
Develop, implement, and share innovative strategies to ensure the quality, production readiness, scalability and ongoing health of our apps and systems
Manage and mitigate high-risk elements of projects, effectively communicating issues, risks, and dependencies with stakeholders
Team up with engineering leadership and the staff engineering cohort to recruit, develop, and support highly qualified professionals
Regularly impart your knowledge and pursue opportunities to instruct others in technologies, standards, and best practices
Cultivate a collaborative environment, actively listening to and integrating diverse perspectives to reach shared goals

Your experience has given you:

Several years of experience in Backend Software Engineering at a Senior, Principal or Staff Engineer level
In-depth knowledge of Javascript/Typescript-based Full-Stack service/microservice Development (e.g. Node.js)
Extensive experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS), message queues (e.g. SQS) and Database formats (e.g. DynamoDB)
Experience with modern frontend technologies (e.g. React, Vue.js)
Highly adept, detail-oriented professional with the ability to develop and execute strategic plans
Comprehensive knowledge of Agile methodologies
Experience delivering scalable systems that solve complex technical challenges at scale
Extensive stakeholder management experience with a focus on working across multiple functions/domains and the ability to create alignment across diverse teams
Experience mentoring and helping other engineers grow their technical skills
A commitment to contribute to the future of Trustpilot, and the ability to make crucial technical decisions, in a pragmatic way
A customer-centric and solution-oriented mindset with a bias towards action.
The ability to communicate complex problems easily to a diverse group of stakeholders
Exposure to or experience with App development (iOS, Android and cross-platform frameworks)

Some relevant technologies and services we use (this is informative, not requirements):

Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, SNS, SQS, ...), Docker, CloudFormation
Languages: Typescript, Node.js, Python
Frontend: React, Next.js, CSS Modules, SASS, Styled Components
Database: DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery
Systems: Salesforce, Zuora, Contentful

Staff Engineer (Backend)

Staff Engineer to lead initiatives, develop strategies, and manage projects, requiring backend engineering experience and cloud services knowledge.

What you’ll be doing:

Lead the delivery of major initiatives, balancing timely delivery with sustainable engineering practices
Bring together the work of various teams and individuals into a cohesive, achievable plan aligned with company goals, key milestone deadlines and user experience standards
You use your skill set to improve Trustpilot’s capabilities in your domain.
Develop, implement, and share innovative strategies to ensure the quality, production readiness, scalability and ongoing health of our apps and systems
Manage and mitigate high-risk elements of projects, effectively communicating issues, risks, and dependencies with stakeholders
Team up with engineering leadership and the staff engineering cohort to recruit, develop, and support highly qualified professionals
Regularly impart your knowledge and pursue opportunities to instruct others in technologies, standards, and best practices
Cultivate a collaborative environment, actively listening to and integrating diverse perspectives to reach shared goals

Your experience has given you:

Several years of experience in Backend Software Engineering at a Senior, Principal or Staff Engineer level
In-depth knowledge of Javascript/Typescript-based Full-Stack service/microservice Development (e.g. Node.js)
Extensive experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS), message queues (e.g. SQS) and Database formats (e.g. DynamoDB)
Experience with modern frontend technologies (e.g. React, Vue.js)
Highly adept, detail-oriented professional with the ability to develop and execute strategic plans
Comprehensive knowledge of Agile methodologies
Experience delivering scalable systems that solve complex technical challenges at scale
Extensive stakeholder management experience with a focus on working across multiple functions/domains and the ability to create alignment across diverse teams
Experience mentoring and helping other engineers grow their technical skills
A commitment to contribute to the future of Trustpilot, and the ability to make crucial technical decisions, in a pragmatic way
A customer-centric and solution-oriented mindset with a bias towards action.
The ability to communicate complex problems easily to a diverse group of stakeholders
Exposure to or experience with App development (iOS, Android and cross-platform frameworks)

Some relevant technologies and services we use (this is informative, not requirements):

Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, SNS, SQS, ...), Docker, CloudFormation
Languages: Typescript, Node.js, Python
Frontend: React, Next.js, CSS Modules, SASS, Styled Components
Database: DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery
Systems: Salesforce, Zuora, Contentful