Role Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader responsible for designing, building, and scaling our core platform. You will work across the full stack — from our PHP backend to our modern React frontends — and help drive the evolution of our AWS-based cloud infrastructure.
This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll be expected to deliver high-quality code, mentor engineers, lead technical initiatives, and partner closely with product and design teams to deliver business impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture & Design: Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure, and maintainable systems across PHP backend, React frontend, and AWS infrastructure.
- Technical Leadership: Own complex features end-to-end; influence technical direction; set best practices in code quality, testing, and CI/CD.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with product strategy.
- Mentorship & Growth: Coach engineers at multiple levels, provide technical guidance, and help shape the engineering culture.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Ensure our systems are performant and reliable on AWS, leveraging services like RDS, ECS/Lambda, S3, CloudFront, etc.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to improve performance, security, scalability, and developer experience.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience: 12+ years in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a senior or staff-level role.
- Backend Expertise: Deep knowledge of PHP (modern frameworks, e.g. Laravel/Symfony, or large-scale monoliths). Strong MySQL or relational database design skills.
- Frontend Expertise: Proficiency in React, TypeScript, modern frontend tooling. Experience building scalable, maintainable UIs.
- Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with AWS (RDS, ECS/Lambda, S3, CloudFront, IAM, networking). Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).
- System Design: Proven ability to design and scale SaaS, multi-tenant or multi-db architectures.
- Leadership: Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, and influencing product direction.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication, ability to work cross-functionally, customer-centric mindset. Nice to Have
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Knowledge of API design and integration patterns (REST/GraphQL).
- Exposure to microservices or modular monolith evolution.
- Background in hospitality, travel, or property management systems.
Top Skills
What We Do
Storable is the leading technology provider for the $38 billion self-storage industry. We create technology products that empower self storage facility owners and operators to do more. How? By giving them the tools they need to maximize their business growth and manage their day-to-day tasks seamlessly. Our talented team builds facility management software, websites and marketing tools, search aggregators, tenant insurance tools, and payment processing services all centered around self storage. And we’re pretty damn good at it, too - our team has won more awards than any other self-storage company. Over 25,000 storage facilities across the globe use our technology - from large scale operations to small "mom and pop" shops.
Beyond what we do, we're a diverse crew of professionals from all walks of life - you’ll find stand-up comedians, veterans, bodybuilders, film directors, anglers, bird watchers, home brewers, orchestral musicians and more in our mix - and we’re all united on a mission to create stellar technology products that help our hardworking customers run their businesses better than they ever thought possible.
