Staff Software Engineer
Salary not listed • Remote • Berlin Office; Remotely in Germany • Full-time
Posted 6mo ago
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Job Location
Berlin Office; Remotely in Germany
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
Full-time
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Join Parloa in reimagining customer experience with Agentic AI. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping Parloa’s engineering strategy and architecture while staying close to the code. This role is about building resilient, enterprise-grade systems that can scale globally and helping to set the benchmark for engineering excellence in Europe and beyond. You will be responsible for delivering business value by writing code daily, defining and driving technical strategy across multiple teams, and leading team architecture to ensure solutions scale globally for enterprise adoption. The role requires balancing short-term velocity with long-term resilience, making smart trade-offs on complexity, cost, and scalability, while remaining hands-on in writing foundational code, leading design reviews, or refactoring key systems. You will serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, ensuring engineering capacity matches market and customer demands, and setting cultural standards for fearless iteration, bias for action, and pragmatic perfectionism.
Responsibilities
- Write code daily to deliver business value.
- Define and drive technical strategy across multiple teams and organization-wide initiatives.
- Lead team architecture and ensure solutions scale globally for enterprise adoption.
- Balance short-term velocity with long-term resilience, making smart trade-offs on complexity, cost, and scalability.
- Remain hands-on by writing foundational code, leading design reviews, or refactoring key systems.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, ensuring engineering capacity matches market and customer demands.
- Set cultural standards for fearless iteration, bias for action, and pragmatic perfectionism.
Requirements
- Typically 10–12+ years of experience as a seasoned technical leader with a track record of org-level or industry-level impact.
- Deeply experienced in enterprise-scale systems and multi-team architecture leadership.
- Equally comfortable with strategic vision and technical details.
- Thrives in ambiguous, high-stakes environments with a strong sense of urgency.
- Motivated by making the impossible possible and building something iconic.