This is a remote position.
Experience Level
The Staff Software Craftsperson is a technical leadership role equivalent to an SDE-4/SDE-5. We are looking for seasoned engineers with 8+ years of hands-on experience who have transitioned from building great software to shaping the engineering culture and technical strategy of an entire organization.
As a Staff-level crafter, your focus shifts from solving well-defined problems to identifying and solving the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges that impact our clients and our internal engineering standards.
What You’ll Do as a Software Craftsperson
- Technical Vision & Architecture: Lead the architectural direction for complex, large-scale systems. You will balance the immediate needs of the business with long-term system health, ensuring our solutions remain simple, scalable, and resilient.
- Engineering Excellence at Scale: Champion disciplined engineering practices (TDD, Pair Programming, CI/CD) across multiple teams. You don’t just follow the bar; you raise it by introducing better patterns and tooling.
- AI Strategy & Mentorship: Drive our AI-native development model. You will experiment with and define how we use AI to accelerate the SDLC, ensuring the team uses these tools to enhance—rather than replace—deep technical judgment.
- Cross-Team Leadership: Act as a force multiplier. You will mentor senior engineers, conduct high-impact code reviews, and foster a culture of continuous learning and craftsmanship.
- Strategic Client Partnership: Work as a technical consultant for high-stakes client engagements, translating vague business goals into robust technical roadmaps and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
- Systemic Problem Solving: Beyond resolving production issues, you identify "class-level" problems in our infrastructure or codebase and implement systemic changes to eliminate them permanently.
Requirements
What We're looking for
- 8+ years of experience building and maintaining high-scale production systems.
- Mastery of Fundamentals: Expert-level understanding of object-oriented design, functional programming, and system architecture (Microservices, Event-driven, etc.).
- Polyglot Mindset: High proficiency in Ruby on Rails and React/Angular, with the proven ability to architect solutions across multiple tech stacks (Python, Go, etc.) as needed.
- Influence without Authority: Demonstrated ability to lead through persuasion and technical excellence rather than just hierarchy.
- Advanced AI Collaboration: Deep experience integrating AI into a professional workflow to explore architecture, automate toil, and peer-review logic.
- Proven Ownership: A track record of taking a project from a nebulous idea to a successful, maintained production system.
- Communication: Exceptional ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
- Clear thinking and strong problem-solving ability, with the capacity to break down complex problems into simple, well-structured solutions.
- A strong sense of ownership — you take responsibility for outcomes, care deeply about quality, and are not comfortable shipping work that does not meet your standards
Benefits
Life at Incubyte
We are a remote-first company with structured flexibility. Teams commit to shared rhythms during core hours, ensuring smooth collaboration while maintaining autonomy. Twice a year, we come together in person for a co-working sprint and once a year for a retreat - with all travel expenses covered.
Our environment is built for crafters: pairing, refactoring, experimenting with AI, and pushing the boundaries of software excellence. We are all lifelong learners, and our work is our passion.
Perks
- Dedicated learning & development budget.
- Sponsorship for conference talks.
- Comprehensive medical & term insurance.
- Employee-friendly leave policies.
- Home Office fund
- Medical Insurance
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience building and maintaining high-scale production systems
- Expert understanding of object-oriented design, functional programming, and system architecture
- High proficiency in Ruby on Rails and React or Angular
- Ability to architect solutions across multiple technology stacks, including Python and Go
- Experience leading through influence and technical excellence without formal authority
- Deep experience integrating AI into professional software development workflows
- Track record of owning projects from ambiguous ideas through successful, maintained production systems
- Exceptional communication with technical, non-technical, and executive stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving and clear-thinking ability
- Strong ownership and commitment to software quality
What We Do
We incubate high-quality, dedicated software engineering teams for our clients, where we design software, design the team a well as the organization strategy required to successfully release products that are relevant today as well as tomorrow. Got a working product already? - Scale-up and reach new milestones - Modernize your software - Bring stability and predictability into how your product behaves Got a product idea? - Hire your engineering team - Go to market quickly - Iterate rapidly Got too many manual processes? - Develop solutions to optimize processes - Enable non-linear scale - Measure and monitor outcomes We are your engineering team. We’ll build what you need. And we’ll help you do it the right way. *How we work* We are software crafters. We are proud of the way we work and the code we write. We embrace and are evangelists of eXtreme Programming practices. We heavily believe in being a DevOps organization, where developers own the entire release cycle and thus own quality. And most importantly, we never stop learning! Founded by product professionals, our goal is to bring a product mindset into services. We strive to find people who are passionate about coding, learning and growing along with us. Join our team! We’re looking for full stack developers, automation QA engineers, data engineers, business analysts and salesforce expertise
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