We started Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees– so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to unlock one’s potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.
We are more than a fast-paced, high-growth tech company; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it through the people, the work, and the programs that fuel who we are.
About the role
We are looking to bring on a full-stack Staff Software Engineer for our Super+ vertical. This vertical consists of 5 full-stack engineering teams, along with Data, Design, and QA to support shipping world-class products. As a Staff Software Engineer you will work cross-team, be a go-to technical expert, and help architect and tackle our most complex technical challenges.
About the team
Super.com engineering has four full-stack product development focus areas: fintech, travel, earnings, and a Super+ membership program to unite them all. Our dozens of microservices and event-driven architecture handle thousands of requests and events per second, ingest over 1TB of data per day, and process over $1MM per day in sales, leveraging state of the art infrastructure. We have 80 highly skilled engineers across our teams and we work in close partnership with Product Managers, Designers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced, scaleup environment (that respects work/life balance). We focus on driving business value through ambitious technical achievement, and place a huge emphasis on providing the structure to fast-track our team members' growth.
What you’ll be working on:
Play a central role in architecting our services, frontends, databases, and mobile app.
Tackle technical challenges relating to how we unify our products into our Super.com app and ensure a high quality user experience
Serve as a vertical-level leader for a highly stable production environment, acting as a go-to technical resource and subject matter expert across teams for major projects.
Propel the business forward by driving high-impact projects, leveraging other engineers and teams as appropriate in some cases serving as the cross functional context holder ensuring efficient delivery when cross functional work is necessary.
Work across multiple complex codebases to introduce improved patterns to the system architecture, ensuring implementations leave the codebase in a better state than they were before.
Share findings and suggestions with other engineers at guild meetings (technical guilds discuss and set engineering standards)
Drive technical roadmaps and architecture advancements by solving current architectural challenges and heavily influencing technical OKRs at the vertical level
Create and present cross-team and cross-eng technical presentations focused on improving developer experience, engineering productivity, and processes
Actively contribute to a culture of continuous improvement through advocating for a balance between feature work and engineering health
Report into the Engineering Director for the vertical
Share responsibility for the operational health of production services, including participation in an on-call rotation.
Note: On-call is a part of this role. Rotations are weekly and compensated for each rotation per the company’s on-call compensation policy. Participation may be voluntary or required depending on team and staffing needs.
Our Technology:
We use a state of the art architecture powered by Node and Python microservices and React frontend
We use Postgres for storage, Redis for caching, and Snowflake for our data warehouse
We use Gitlab for version control and CI/CD, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS, making use of Kubernetes, RDS, etc
We invest heavily in monitoring and automated alerting using Datadog
We use Amplitude, Hotjar, and LogRocket for client-side metrics and experimentation
We use Material-UI and maintain our own component library, using Figma for mock-ups
We integrate with a multitude of third-parties to support our compliance, risk, and security policies
What we’re looking for:
You have a total of 10+ years of work experience in Software Development, including at least 5 years as a Senior Software Engineer or at least 2 years as a Staff Software Engineer / Sole Technical Lead / Architect.
You have worked on large-scale projects, defined either by high throughput, active users or data volume, and have demonstrated the ability to design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and reliable systems.
You have at least senior technical depth in full-stack development including frontend, web servers, and databases
You have a demonstrated ability to tackle technical challenges across complex, multi-team codebases and service ownership lines that would challenge most senior engineers.
You use code reviews and design document feedback as strategic vehicles for mentorship, leveling up senior engineers and ensuring best practices are adopted across the vertical.
You are highly motivated / passionate, versatile, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced startup environment, with an emphasis on delivering business value
You are an excellent communicator who can bridge technical and non-technical topics, collaborating with Product, Design, and stakeholders to ensure features have the intended impact
You have experience working on cross-functional projects
You have strong knowledge of modern web technologies, system design & architecture, and microservices, and keep up-to-date with them
You are an excellent communicator, for both technical and non-technical topics
You demonstrate high AI fluency, moving beyond personal productivity to drive pragmatic AI adoption across the engineering organization. You are a key contributor to technical ideation, identifying ambitious ways to leverage AI to improve the user experience and developer productivity.
We’ve got you covered:
At Super.com, we believe in supporting our team so they can thrive—both at work and in life.
Remote-First Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the world and choose the hours that suit you best. We trust you to get great work done on your terms.
Time to Recharge: Enjoy unlimited PTO, company-wide recharge days, and annual team offsites.
Everyday Perks: Weekly UberEats credits and travel discounts on Super.com help you enjoy the little things.
Family-Friendly Benefits: We support growing families with generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan.
Comprehensive Compensation: Competitive salary, equity options, and top-tier benefits starting on day one.
Investing in You: Access to wellness budgets, personal development funds, and team-level learning resources.
At Super.com, we are proud to leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology to make our hiring process smarter, faster, and more inclusive. By integrating AI tools into our recruitment, we enhance our ability to identify top talent efficiently while promoting fairness and consistency for every applicant.
Super.com is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify your Talent Acquisition Partner.
