Staff Software Engineer Full Stack

<p style="min-height:1.5em">Ternary is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, to join our team. We don't expect expertise in all of them, but knowing the landscape will help you hit the ground running.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br /><strong>You:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">10+ years of delivering scalable web applications and platform services across early-stage and enterprise companies, with expertise in designing and implementing data and analytics platforms, including BigQuery, large-scale data warehousing, and pipelines that support analytics and product insights.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience building backend services in Golang.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Passionate about learning new knowledge and skills, skilled at quickly ramping up in new areas.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Bias for action — address ambiguity and hard conversations directly, and actively promote these traits across the engineering organization.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience interacting with customers and business leads.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Regularly consider business lenses and tradeoffs, even for deeply technical engineering problems.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical anchor on our core platform — driving architectural decisions that determine how we scale to serve enterprise finance and engineering buyers.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead critical and large-scale complex projects, providing both hands-on technical expertise and end-to-end project execution.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contribute across the stack, with core focus on API design, BigQuery and modern data warehousing, and React/TypeScript front-end development — with working familiarity across relational and non-relational databases, authentication, CI/CD, and customer-facing features.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drive and own end-to-end delivery of features, including planning, design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, adoption, and performance in production.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Make informed tradeoffs between tactical and strategic technical approaches, balancing long-term scalability with immediate business needs.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the architecture and quality bar of the platform, with primary accountability for the web application layer.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Uphold a high bar by participating in technical discussions, providing feedback on specs, and making recommendations while uplifting and mentoring junior team members.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Comp and benefits:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Company-sponsored travel to interact with colleagues several times a year.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We provide generous health benefits, 401(k) plan, and a WFH budget for you to set up your home office (not available for contract or short term roles such as internships).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Equity compensation so that all employees can participate in Ternary's success (not available for contract or short term roles such as internships).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">The team culture is the best of what you would expect to see at a startup combined with a level of maturity you would see at a much larger company.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>At Ternary, we value diversity.