Job Application for Staff Engineer I at Backbase

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The Staff Engineer replaces the legacy Principal Engineer role as a trusted technical authority for a broad business domain. Your primary leverage comes from aligning teams, spreading best practices, and growing other engineers so the whole department moves faster and safer. You do not manage people; you manage technical complexity.

● The Solver: Parachute into the hardest technical challenges spanning multiple teams to remove volatility and ambiguity.
● Design Ownership: Own high-level design for multi-service capabilities, ensuring security and scalability are embedded from the start.
● Technical Project Leadership: For large strategic initiatives, you step in as the technical lead, driving the architecture and execution strategy across multiple engineering teams.
● Tracer Bullet Code: Write the complex cores and skeletal systems that other teams build upon.
● Bar Raising: Serve as the primary approver for critical-path design reviews and major technical initiatives.
● Promotion Endorsement: Act as a formal contributor in Senior-level performance evaluations; no Senior Engineer can be promoted without your evidence-based endorsement.
● Execution Focus: While the VSTL looks years ahead, you ensure the current quarter is executed with technical excellence.
● AI-Native Engineering: Lead the adoption of agentic tooling, LLM workflows, and AI automation within your team to accelerate the development lifecycle.

● You have 10+ years of experience with a strong track record in designing and delivering complex software systems.
● You are T-shaped, possessing deep expertise in one area with broad competence across the full stack.
● You excel at "Influence Without Authority," shaping decisions across teams through expertise and persuasion.
● You are highly craft-focused and proactive in addressing cultural and technical debt.

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