Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Guild is a female-founded, certified B Corp company that partners with innovative employers to develop internal talent. They are hiring a Staff Engineer for their Grow Talent Experience team, focusing on building personalized and intuitive member experiences through robust software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead front-end architecture and development — owning the design and implementation of user interfaces that are performant, accessible, and scalable. Set the standard for front-end quality, patterns, and best practices across the team
- Design, build, and own new services and infrastructure that support our member-facing experiences end to end
- Write clean, testable, and reusable code. Contribute to end-to-end development including testing, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and deployment, ensuring high availability and quality in releases
- Drive technical decision-making and direction — authoring design documents, architecture decision records (ADRs), and leading technical discussions that communicate trade-offs clearly and move the team forward with confidence
- Mentor and elevate the 4 other engineers on the team, providing hands-on guidance, code review feedback, and career development support. Help the team grow not just in output, but in capability
- Lead cross-functional alignment — partnering closely with product managers, designers, and operations teams to translate business requirements into engineering solutions, and serving as a technical voice in roadmap planning and prioritization
- Identify and champion improvements to performance, reliability, and developer velocity using operational data, user feedback, and your own engineering judgment
- Improve internal development processes, tools, and workflows to enhance code quality, speed of delivery, and system security
Skills
- Deep expertise in front-end technologies, especially React and TypeScript, with a strong eye for building intuitive, high-quality user experiences
- Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of driving alignment across engineering, product, and design in a distributed environment
- Expertise in several (or all!) of these tools and technologies: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and GraphQL
- Expertise building and owning multiple services and user interfaces — data modeling, unit and integration testing, application monitoring, and CI/CD
- Expertise with a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean), database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL), and modern source control (Git / GitHub)
- Lead front-end architecture and development — owning the design and implementation of user interfaces that are performant, accessible, and scalable
- Design, build, and own new services and infrastructure that support our member-facing experiences end to end
- Write clean, testable, and reusable code. Contribute to end-to-end development including testing, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and deployment, ensuring high availability and quality in releases
- Drive technical decision-making and direction — authoring design documents, architecture decision records (ADRs), and leading technical discussions that communicate trade-offs clearly and move the team forward with confidence
- Mentor and elevate the 4 other engineers on the team, providing hands-on guidance, code review feedback, and career development support
- Lead cross-functional alignment — partnering closely with product managers, designers, and operations teams to translate business requirements into engineering solutions
- Identify and champion improvements to performance, reliability, and developer velocity using operational data, user feedback, and your own engineering judgment
- Improve internal development processes, tools, and workflows to enhance code quality, speed of delivery, and system security
- Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar
- Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI) and building AI-powered features, including assistants, summarization, RAG workflows, or vector search
- Demonstrated curiosity and interest in keeping up with and experimenting with emerging technologies
Benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Vacation policy to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company Overview
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