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Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Payroll Onboarding
$151K–$309K
Remote, USA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- Remote, USA
Remote - USA - Experience
- 8+ years of back-end experience.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software that helps restaurants configure payroll and enables internal teams to support go-lives.
What you'll do
- Lead technical initiatives to improve product functionality and reliability, and shape architectural decisions and the technical roadmap.
- Collaborate across Design, Product, and Engineering to build robust, scalable full-stack applications and advocate for strong coding practices.
- Mentor engineers and use AI tools to improve development workflows, velocity, and engineering productivity.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages.
- Track record leading technically complex, multi-team projects.
- Proficiency with modern web standards and technologies, including examples such as React, TypeScript, REST, and GraphQL; proficiency with traditional databases and alternative data stores.
- Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices, and delivering reliable services to production.
Pay
$193,000 — $309,000 USD (base salary); $168,000 — $269,000 USD (base salary); $151,000 — $242,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Kotlin, React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL
AI focus
Use AI tools to improve development workflow and velocity and pioneer new approaches to what and how the team builds.
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