Job Description
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a hands-on, strategic technical leader who helps shape our engineering organization's direction, capabilities, and culture. You operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise and organizational influence—driving architectural decisions that enable scale, building systems that reduce complexity, and elevating how teams across Vector work together. This role requires you to think beyond individual features or even single teams. You'll identify systemic opportunities for improvement, design solutions that create lasting leverage, and partner with engineers at all levels to amplify your impact. You'll also partner closely with engineering leadership, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our technical strategy aligns with business goals and customer needs.
Key Responsibilities :
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Lead architectural direction across domains and teams, making system-wide design decisions that unlock future growth, reduce complexity, and address long-term technical risk
- Anticipate organizational and technical evolution and design systems that enable that evolution
- Guide teams through ambiguity, help set architectural standards, and be an exemplar of systems thinking
- Shape the way teams think about quality by defining and evolving standards, identifying systemic patterns that reduce code health, and taking strategic action
- Reduce the overall debugging burden by improving systems, structures, and diagnostic tooling that minimize time spent identifying and resolving problems
Strategic Impact & Product Partnership
Act as a strategic product partner, helping define product direction by synthesizing feedback across teams and ensuring technical decisions align with long-term goals and customer needsInfluence organizational priorities with deep understanding of customer needs, ensuring decisions deliver exceptional user experiencesGuide product stability and reliability as strategic initiatives, aligning system resilience with customer trust and business objectivesHelp bring clarity to complex tradeoffs, translating business needs into actionable priorities and uncovering hidden dependenciesOrganizational & Process Excellence
Scale good engineering practices across teams—including testing, code quality, and operational excellence—by identifying gaps and driving cultural changeArchitect simplicity into systems, teams, and processes, building mental models and shared expectations that help others work with clarity and economyCreate conditions for high-performing delivery : clear priorities, unblocked paths, healthy rhythms, and visibility into progressLeadership & Influence
Model and drive an ownership culture through influence, designing systems that make accountability easier and more consistent across teamsModel and scale healthy feedback culture beyond your immediate team, embedding feedback loops into systems and decision-makingMake and communicate architectural decisions with clear reasoning that balances technical excellence and business pragmatismCollaboration & Communication
Shape how teams collaborate at scale, creating conditions for healthy collaboration across groups, functions, and time zonesAct as a steward of organizational trust, anticipating relational friction and creating structures that help people relate across differencesLead and support incident response, improving diagnostic processes and shaping practices that reduce recurrenceArticulate complex technical concepts and strategic vision to diverse audiences (engineers, product, executives, non-technical stakeholders)Build trust and productive relationships across organizational boundariesFacilitate difficult conversations and driving alignment in high-stakes or contentious situationsStrategic thinking skills that connect technical work to business outcomes and customer valueWe are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy :
Required Skills & Experience
10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years operating at a Staff or equivalent levelProven track record of architecting and scaling complex distributed systems in production environments serving significant user basesDeep expertise with full-stack SaaS architecture, including systems design, performance optimization, and reliability engineeringExpert-level proficiency with , TypeScript, SQL (MySQL), and NoSQL (DynamoDB)Extensive experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure at scaleMastery of software architectural patterns and ability to teach them across teamsStrong background in building comprehensive testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end) and improving testing cultureDeep understanding of reliability practices : observability, incident management, post-mortems, and proactive system healthBachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experienceNice to Have Skills & Experience
Healthcare industry experienceBenefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and / or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.