Hybrid Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Admin

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• Job title: Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Admin
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Microservices, Postgres, Python, Scala
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Join WRITER as a Staff Software Engineer to build services for enterprise administration in AI-powered work environments. Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure secure and scalable solutions in a hybrid role.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, scalable services for enterprise administration, billing, identity management, authentication, and authorization
• Make meaningful system design decisions, own the architecture of core platform components from initial design through production
• Build and optimise high-performance APIs and distributed services that operate reliably at enterprise scale
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional engineering teams to translate complex business and compliance requirements into well-designed technical solutions
• Partner with DevOps teams on continuous deployment, logging, and monitoring; ensuring top-tier performance and reliability
• Drive improvements in observability, reliability, deployment workflows, and operational excellence
• Navigate ambiguity, take loosely defined problem spaces and turn them into well-structured, maintainable implementations
• Raise the bar on code quality, testing, documentation, and long-term maintainability

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building production systems end-to-end with extremely strong proficiency with Python and functional programming
• Strong system design skills, you can whiteboard a distributed architecture, reason about trade-offs, and make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty
• Experience building microservices and RESTful APIs in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Solid grasp of database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL), event-driven architectures, and distributed systems fundamentals (availability, fault tolerance, operational safety)
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, you drive clarity rather than waiting for complete specifications, and you drive clarity for yourself and the team
• Experience coding with AI tools to move faster while maintaining high standards for correctness, security, and maintainability
• A "Connect" mindset, thriving in collaborative settings where you actively engage with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers to achieve shared goals
• A "Challenge" spirit, demonstrating exceptional problem-solving skills to tackle complex technical hurdles and proactively suggest innovative improvements to our systems and processes
• An “Own” mindset, you take full accountability for outcomes from design through production, and you raise the bar on quality and maintainability
• Nice to have: Experience in identity and access management, authentication (SSO, SAML, OIDC), and authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, policy engines)
• Nice to have: Experience building billing, subscription, or metering systems at scale
• Nice to have: Background in multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platforms
• Nice to have: Experience with functional Scala is a strong plus

Benefits

• Generous PTO, plus company holidays
• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)
• Fertility and family planning support
• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
• Competitive pension scheme and company contribution
• Annual work-life stipends for:
• Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
• Learning and development stipend
• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
• Competitive compensation and company stock options