We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction across our core platform. It's a hands-on, high-leverage role for someone who thrives on scope and ambiguity — you'll operate across team boundaries, raise the engineering bar for everyone around you, and stay close enough to the code to build the hardest parts yourself.
What you'll drive
This is foundational work that scales R2 to the next level and reaches millions of users worldwide. You'll turn large, business-critical problems into architectures the whole org can execute against — work like:
Large-scale decomposition — breaking tightly-coupled systems into clearly-bounded domains along both service/application and data-ownership boundaries, defining the seams and sequencing migrations so we ship incrementally without freezing product delivery.
Event-driven systems and data lifecycle — designing event-driven architectures for things like moving stale data out of operational databases into cold storage, keeping transactional systems lean while preserving the retention, auditability,
and recoverability guarantees a fintech demands.
Agent infrastructure at scale — helping build the ecosystem where autonomous agents are deployed, discovered, and interact with our systems and each other at scale, with observability, policy, and security as first-class, non-negotiable properties.
8+ years of engineering experience building API-driven services, with the appetite and ability to code on a daily basis.
Deep expertise designing and constructing web services in REST and/or gRPC, from interface design through production operation.
Strong track record with distributed architecture patterns, in particular microservices and monolith decomposition — you've done this at real scale, not just on a whiteboard.
Hands-on experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures.
Experience with change data capture (CDC) — streaming changes out of operational databases (e.g., Postgres WAL / logical replicatio