Staff Engineer

As Staff Engineer at Genio you will be a technical expert, dedicated to advocating for engineering excellence across their squads and the wider engineering team, solving complex technical challenges and influencing technical decisions. You will have a key role in driving forward Genio s technology goals and advocating for our Engineering Principles.

What you ll be doing

• Complex Problem Solving: Tackle highly complex technical challenges that require in-depth analysis, creative solutions, and a deep understanding of system architecture and design.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and direction to other engineers through pairing or mentorship, influencing technical decisions and ensuring alignment with Genio s goals.
• System Design and Architecture: Contribute to system design and architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Code Quality and Standards: Champion code quality and coding standards within the squad(s), ensuring alignment with Genio s Engineering Principles.
• Performance Optimisation: Identify and address performance bottlenecks and optimise systems for efficiency and scalability.
• Delivery Ownership: Take ownership of critical projects or features, driving them from conception to completion with minimal supervision, fostering a culture of open communication by sharing timely updates on progress, issues and blockers with stakeholders.
• Mentorship and Collaboration: Guide more junior engineers through pairing and mentorship, fostering their technical growth and development.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with product managers, UX designers, and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of features.
• Technical Decision Making: Play a key role in technical decision-making, weighing trade-offs and considering long-term implications.
• Technical Vision: Contribute to the technical vision and strategy for the squad(s).
• Process Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in the software development process and drive initiatives to enhance efficiency and quality.
• Innovation: Explore and evaluate new technologies and approaches to improve existing systems or develop innovative solutions.
• Knowledge Sharing: Actively share knowledge and expertise with the squad(s) and the broader engineering community.

About you

• Software Crafting: Significant object-oriented and/or functional programming experience.
• Front-End Technologies: Highly proficient in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (TypeScript and React).
• Back-End Technologies: Deep experience with Kotlin for server-side development.
• Mobile Development: experience with mobile application development, especially web-based hybrid apps powered by Capacitor as we replatform our mobile app.
• Databases: Strong knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL.
• Testability: Understand and advocate for best practices in automated testing, continuous integration, automated deployment, and code quality.
• Collaboration: Actively mentors others, fostering trust, and contributing to a positive team culture.
• Adaptability: Advocate and champion continuous learning, developing new skills, and promote a flexible, team-oriented mindset.
• Communication: Strong skills with "passionate views, loosely held" articulate ideas clearly but remain open to other perspectives.
• Problem Solving and Debugging: able to analyse complex technical problems, breaking them down, identifying patterns, and using critical thinking to craft and evaluate solutions with clear trade-offs and collaborative insight.
• Proactively leverage AI tools (e.g., code assistants, automated analysis, workflow agents) to enhance development velocity, code quality, and problem-solving effectiveness.