About the role
Envoy protects the places the world relies on most by unifying people, spaces, and communications in one secure, integrated workplace management platform and ecosystem. More than 16,000 workplaces around the world trust Envoy to run secure, compliant, and connected operations across every location. From manufacturing sites and data centers to life sciences labs, healthcare facilities, and corporate headquarters, Envoy unifies visitor management, risk assessment, mailroom management, digital signage software, resource booking, and emergency management into one integrated platform. With deep integrations across access control, identity, compliance screening, and collaboration tools—including LenelS2, Brivo, Genetec, Honeywell, Cisco Meraki, Okta, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, Slack, ServiceNow, DocuSign, Avigilon Alta, and Descartes Visual Compliance—Envoy helps organizations reduce risk, stay audit-ready, and operate with clarity at scale. Learn more at envoy.com This is an L5 opportunity. Successful candidates typically come from staff or principal-level roles and are recognized for establishing technical direction, leading large-scale initiatives, and shaping engineering strategy across organizations.
About
the role Envoy is the integrated workplace platform that connects people, spaces, and data, redefining how companies welcome visitors, book desks and rooms, manage deliveries, run emergency notifications, and surface unified workplace analytics across 16,000+ locations globally. Companies like Slack, Pinterest, and Warby Parker rely on Envoy to keep their workplaces secure, compliant, and running smoothly. We're a cross-functional team of frontend, backend, and mobile engineers building a modular platform that powers products enterprises actually enjoy using. As a Staff Full-Stack Engineer (L5), you are one of the most senior individual contributors on your team and a force multiplier for everyone around you. This is the delivery-focused track of L5: where the Engineering Architect sets cross-team technical direction, and you drive the hardest, highest-impact features from problem definition through deployment and iteration. You lead major product initiatives end to end, designing systems, writing production code across the stack, and mentoring other engineers while owning the quality, velocity, and outcomes of what your team ships. You'll partner closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to turn ambiguous problems into shipped, reliable software. This on-site position requires 4 days a week (Monday through Thursday) in our San Francisco HQ office. You will Lead major product features end-to-end: problem definition, solution exploration, system design, code execution, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Design and implement enterprise-grade services and user-facing experiences across the full stack: backend services, APIs, data models, and frontend. Create clean abstractions and reusable systems that increase product velocity, so the whole team ships faster without adding hours or complexity. Own the quality, security, availability, and performance of the systems your team builds. Drive technical decision-making within your team and influence direction across adjacent teams. Respond to incidents, identify and resolve bottlenecks, and eliminate sources of recurring toil. Deliver excellent software through comprehensive peer review, CI, and automated testing. Provide mentorship and technical guidance to senior and mid-level engineers, raising the bar on craftsmanship. You have A BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field 12–15 years of software engineering experience shipping and operating production systems at scale Genuine full-stack depth: fluent in modern frontend and backend, with the judgment to know where a problem is best solved. A track record of leading complex, multi-quarter initiatives from inception to launch with a strong sense of urgency and ownership. Strong system design skills in data modeling, API design, and building for scale, security, and reliability. Demonstrated ability to elevate a team through mentorship, code review, and setting technical standards. Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design. Bias toward clean abstractions and leverage over one-off solutions.