Staff Software Engineer, Backend

🕒 June 5

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GlossGenius

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

💄 Beauty

🧘 Wellness

SaaS • Beauty • Wellness

GlossGenius is a comprehensive software solution designed for salons and spas to streamline their business operations and enhance client experiences. It offers an all-in-one platform with features for online booking, payments, client management, marketing, inventory management, and team management. With a focus on user-friendliness and customization, GlossGenius helps salon and spa owners increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction through powerful marketing tools, automated appointment reminders, and seamless transaction processing. Trusted by numerous beauty and wellness professionals, GlossGenius aims to make business management easier and more efficient, from scheduling to checkout.

📋 Description

• Lead technical planning, system architecture, scaling our AI powered products and 0-to-1 product builds, weighing long-term tradeoffs with precision • Write high-quality code and rapidly build proof-of-concepts to validate architecture options and tackle the team's most complex technical challenges • Act as a technical mentor and accelerator for backend engineers on the team, proactively identifying systemic technical debt, resolving blockers, and raising the bar for engineering excellence • Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to turn ambiguous business goals into clear, well-architected initiatives, keeping a healthy backlog of forward-looking work • Embed cutting-edge AI workflows (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) into your daily development practices, helping shape how our engineering organization leverages AI effectively and responsibly

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience, with a strong focus on web, and a track record of leading high-impact technical work • Proven experience operating at a senior-to-staff level, with a track record of owning system design and architectural choices for high-scale or high-growth products • Strong backend depth with Kotlin (experience with TypeScript is a plus) • Solid understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS and Kubernetes (you don't need to be a pure infra specialist, but you know how to navigate it) • Hands-on experience integrating AI models and LLMs into customer-facing products • Experience working in early-stage, startup, or high-innovation environments. You are comfortable shipping quickly, iterating rapidly, and navigating ambiguity • Exceptional communication skills with a natural ability to collaborate closely with PMs, Designers, and other engineering teams to align on product vision • Experience with or enthusiasm for AI-assisted development tools (like Claude Code) to maximize engineering velocity

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO • Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG • In-person opportunities that are designed to help team members foster collaboration and build community (ie; working out of a co-working space, team dinners, and other team building activities) • Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot • Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy • 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment • Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses • Pre-tax commuter benefits • Dependent Care FSA • Home office support