Staff Software Engineer

Merge · New York, NY; San Francisco

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Company
Merge
Location
New York, NY; San Francisco
Employment type
Full-time
Salary
$225,000 - $260,000
Posted
March 5, 2025

About this job

What you will do: - Drive roadmapping and architecture discussions - Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code - Lead Merge's most impactful projects from initial inception to production - Unblock and support your team of peers including engineers, designers, product managers, and business operators The ideal candidate will have: - 7 - 10+ years of full-time software engineering experience - Experience with frameworks (Django, Rails, Spring, etc.) - Extensive knowledge of SQL databases (Postgres preferred) Example projects you might work on: - Scaling Core Systems: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in our data syncing engine, lead large-scale migrations to more efficient technologies and storage solutions, and drive initiatives to increase system

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