Description
The Staff Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for helping shape the architecture, strategy, and long-term success of our parking devices and applications. As a highly experienced engineer, you will be involved in critical architectural decisions, solve complex and ambiguous problems, and set engineering standards that impact multiple teams.
This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strong system design skills, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries. You will collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, Technical Leads, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals.
The Staff Engineer is not only a hands-on technical contributor but also a mentor, setting the bar for engineering excellence and supporting the growth of engineers across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Strategy & System Design
- Contribute to the design and evolution of core architectural patterns and frameworks used across teams.
- Drive technical roadmap development in partnership with product and engineering leadership.
- Solve complex, ambiguous, and high-impact technical challenges, balancing trade-offs in scalability, performance, and cost.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies and approaches that improve system reliability and developer productivity.
- Help ensure that architectural decisions support long-term maintainability and product growth.
Technical Execution & Standards
- Guide teams in implementing scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions.
- Champion engineering excellence by defining coding, testing, and architectural standards.
- Provide technical reviews and guidance across multiple teams and codebases.
- Partner with Cloud Operations team and infrastructure teams to optimize CI/CD, observability, and reliability practices.
Collaboration & Influence
- Work with Product Management, Architecture, and Technical Lead Managers to align engineering direction with product strategy.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing technical insight and recommendations.
- Bridge gaps across teams to ensure consistent practices, shared solutions, and technical alignment.
- Communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Act as the point-person in critical outages and work with the technical lead managers to troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix any issues following our incident process flow.
Mentorship & Culture
- Mentor engineers at all levels, fostering technical growth and leadership development.
- Help build and sustain a culture of learning, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Model effective collaboration and create opportunities for others to lead.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of professional software development experience, with demonstrated expertise across multiple systems and technologies.
- Advanced proficiency in .NET Core, React (or similar), and cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred).
- Deep experience with system design, distributed systems, and architectural trade-offs.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL and NoSQL), event-driven systems, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Track record of delivering high-impact technical solutions and influencing technical direction at the team or org level.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture.
Desired Attributes
- A strategic thinker who sees the “big picture” and can balance immediate needs with long-term goals.
- Comfortable making tough technical trade-offs in ambiguous situations.
- Highly collaborative and influential, with strong stakeholder management skills.
- Passionate about building systems that last — scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
- Committed to mentoring others and raising the technical bar for the organization.
Skills Required
- 12+ years of professional software development experience
- Advanced proficiency with .NET Core
- Advanced proficiency with React or similar technology
- Experience with cloud-native architectures
- Experience with AWS
- Deep experience with system design and distributed systems
- Experience evaluating architectural trade-offs
- Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with event-driven systems
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Track record of delivering high-impact technical solutions and influencing technical direction
- Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder-influence skills
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering culture
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What We Do
Amano McGann is a world leader in providing advanced parking solutions offering an extensive sales service and support network across North America and Canada. Not only do we offer cutting edge hardware, we are committed to providing the most comprehensive and flexible software suite in the industry. Our team of engineers and developers understand the real-world issues our customers face every day and apply this knowledge to each of our products. We are committed to developing quality products and long-term relationships in every market we serve through innovation, operational excellence, and a strong customer focus. Our dedication and experience in the parking industry has led to over 6,000 installations worldwide, serving clients from hospital systems to universities, hotel chains to airports, and municipalities to sports complexes. Amano McGann aims to help reach our customer’s goals whether it’s maximizing revenue or control access, increasing security or offering unmatched customer service. • Headquartered in Roseville, MN • 22 branch offices and 20+ distributors located all across the US and Canada • Subsidiary of Amano Corporation, Japan • World class manufacturing based in the United States • Multi-dimensional solutions • User-friendly technology • On-going technical support
