About the role
As a Staff Engineer, your role is deeply technical and will extend beyond individual contribution. You will continue demonstrating ownership of code quality, leading projects, and writing software but with the added responsibility of setting technical direction, sponsoring initiatives, and injecting important technical context when necessary. Your ability to explore uncharted waters will be crucial to your success in this role.
Working in a startup environment, you will contribute to our long-term goals that may take weeks or months to materialize. Your deep understanding of the mortgage industry will allow you to drive the design and implementation of industry-specific features and improvements, ensuring our technical solutions align with the real-world needs of our users and effectively solve the problems inherent in the mortgage industry.
Role Outcomes
- Close the gap between current and target technical quality standards
- 30 days: Understand our current code quality standards and identify areas for improvement.
- 90 days: Regularly contribute to our codebase and provide insightful feedback during code reviews.
- 180 days: Have a substantial impact on our code quality, demonstrating improvements in stability, performance, and maintainability.
- Lead the successful delivery of complex cross-functional projects
- 30 days: Participate in planning sessions for upcoming projects.
- 90 days: Lead a project or significant feature enhancement, coordinating with cross-functional teams.
- 180 days: Successfully lead the delivery of at least one major mortgage industry-specific feature or improvement.
- Independently identify and champion work which generates the most value to the organization
