Job Description

Bugcrowd is seeking a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to lead technical efforts across multiple teams, ensuring system reliability and operational excellence. This role involves mentoring engineers, driving process improvements, and influencing department-level business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Research, prototype, and introduce new technologies or architectural approaches
• Own the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of key systems
• Mentor and sponsor engineers across levels
• Evolve team processes for scalable improvements
• Drive impact at the team and cross-team level
• Provide technical leadership across scrum teams
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure APIs and integration services
• Implement RESTful, GraphQL, and event-driven APIs
• Collaborate with product, data, and platform teams
• Manage API lifecycle including versioning, authentication, monitoring, and performance optimization
• Develop and maintain integration pipelines
• Ensure data consistency, reliability, and integrity
• Write technical documentation and maintain API specifications
• Troubleshoot integration issues and implement fixes
• Support continuous improvement through automation, observability, and best practices

Requirements

• 6-8 years of experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Master’s degree or relevant certifications preferred
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (Python, Java, Go, Node.js)
• Experience with API frameworks and tools (Spring Boot, Express.js, FastAPI)
• Proficient in API design standards (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
• Experience with API gateways and management tools (Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway)
• Knowledge of message queues and streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS)
• Familiarity with OAuth2, JWT
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong understanding of integration patterns
• Excellent debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Benefits

• No benefits