Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer for JD Financial – Johnston located in Johnston, IA, you will:

• Drive architecture, technical strategy, and engineering excellence across multiple teams
• Acts as a technical multiplier, influencing architecture across multiple teams
• Drives long term technical vision while balancing near term delivery
• Leads design reviews, authors ADRs, and sets engineering standards
• Mentors senior engineers and tech leads
• Trusted partner for complex technical trade offs and high impact decisions

Location: Johnston, IA

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

Backend Engineering (Java / Node.js)

• 7 or more years designing and building large scale, distributed backend systems
• Expert in Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js, including API design, concurrency, performance tuning, and service reliability
• Proven ownership of backend architecture, design reviews, and production incident resolution
• Experience defining service boundaries, API standards, and backward compatible evolution strategies

Cloud & Platform (AWS)

• 5 or more years leading cloud native architecture on AWS
• Deep knowledge of EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and IAM
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and CI/CD pipelines
• Ownership of cloud security, cost optimization, observability, and disaster recovery strategies

Frontend Platform (React / Next.js)

• 5 or more years with React, including hooks, context, performance optimization, and state management
• 4 or more years with Next.js, including SSR, SSG, server components, routing, and data fetching patterns
• Proven ability to define frontend architecture, shared patterns, and performance standards across teams

TypeScript

• 4 or more years of deep TypeScript experience in large codebases
• Expertise with strict typing, generics, discriminated unions, and type safe APIs
• Ability to define robust domain models and enforce correctness via tooling (ESLint, CI, tsconfig)

Databases & Data Systems

• 7 or more years designing and operating data intensive systems
• Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis)
• Expertise in schema design, migrations, performance tuning, and high availability strategies

What Makes You Standout

Education

• Bachelor of Technology Computer science or related fields

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