Staff Engineer leading application architecture for FacilityGrid’s SaaS platform. Overseeing technical direction of application layer with a hands-on leadership approach.
Responsibilities
Own the application architecture across backend, frontend, and service layers
Evolve and maintain the layered patterns and conventions that govern the codebase
Drive API design decisions across versioned REST endpoints
Author and maintain Technical Design Documents for significant system changes
Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and technology adoption proposals
Establish and enforce coding standards, testing strategies, and review practices
Contribute production code in PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/Angular
Design data models, migrations, and schema evolution strategies
Architect integration patterns for external platforms and third-party APIs
Design frontend state management and data-intensive UI patterns
Optimize application performance across the full stack (caching, queues, CDN)
Collaborate with platform engineering on deployment architecture and container orchestration
Understand containerized build and CI/CD pipelines well enough to troubleshoot application-layer issues
Participate in infrastructure design reviews involving GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code
Contribute to observability strategy and application-level instrumentation
Mentor mid-level and senior engineers through code review, pairing, and design discussions
Raise the technical bar across the engineering organization
Translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and decomposed deliverables
Bridge communication between product, engineering, and infrastructure teams
Requirements
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Deep expertise in PHP/Laravel
Strong experience with Angular or comparable TypeScript SPA frameworks
Proven track record of designing and evolving application architectures at scale across multiple teams
Experience with relational database design, query optimization, and migration management
Familiarity with RESTful API design, OAuth2 authentication flows, and multi-tenant SaaS patterns
Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
Strong written communication
Willingness to use AI-based development tools as a core part of your workflow
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