Staff Software Engineer, Level 6

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to lead our Revenue+ team at Snap Inc!. The Revenue+ team is a medium-sized group that has recently expanded from 10 to 29 engineers and is central to Snap's direct revenue monetization strategy. This team is responsible for driving 10 to 15 percent of Snap's total revenue. In this role, you will set the technical direction for architecture across different direct monetization initiatives, defining how we build scalable, high-performance, and discoverable experiences and features. You will act as a technical lead, mentoring senior and junior engineers while partnering with other engineering, product and Data science teams to ensure reliability for high-traffic subscription backend and client features. We operate with a startup mentality, fast-moving, results focused, and in close partnership with Product and Data Science teams.

What you’ll do:

• Technical leadership at scale: Leading the design and delivery of large, cross-team systems, setting technical direction, and driving architectural decisions.

• Platform Strategy: Define the long-term technical roadmap for platform approach solution for IAP and other direct revenue initiatives leveraged by other feature teams.

• Tooling & Efficiency: Build advanced tooling, automation, and template systems that enables the Revenue+ and other product teams to ship faster while maintaining high quality and performance standards.

• Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborate with data, growth, security, and infrastructure partners to optimize our subscription and features.

• Mentorship: Mentor L5 and senior and junior engineers, leading code reviews and technical design discussions to grow engineering expertise across the team. As well as participate in hiring, interviews and growing the talent pipeline.

• Individual Contribution Across Stack: While you are working with a team of engineers and unblocking them, you would be still contributing individually to our code base and implementing PRs in your area of expertise, or across our stack.

• Strategy: Drive the multi-year technical strategy by identifying opportunities. Implement this strategy directly, or achieve delivery through broad technical influence and effective organizational dynamics.

• Technology Leadership: Proactively monitor and assess emerging industry trends to recommend and implement improvements that enhance team productivity, product quality, or performance.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale

• You can independently execute on medium to large sized features, taking a few weeks/months and multiple PRs to complete, while simultaneously leading a team of engineers.

• You understand the operational aspects of your system and may participate in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution

• You ensure a strong focus on customer experience, driving the right problem-solving approach for both yourself and your team.

• You are an effective verbal and written communicator, and you ensure consistent communication with your stakeholders.

• Ability to collaborate and work well with others across different expertise and tracks.

• Proven capacity to solve problems and effectively guide both yourself and your team through highly ambiguous project situations.

• Possesses strong analytical and decision-making capabilities, enabling quick progress while maintaining flexibility through thorough pro and con analysis.

• Engineering Excellence: Champion of domain-driven design, functional programming principles, and rigorous testing methodologies (unit, integration, and end-to-end).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience.

• 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience.

• Extensive experience with software architecture and system design.

• Experience leading technical projects or teams from ideation to production.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cross Platform Development: Familiarity with cross platform development such as React, React Native, Valid, Flutter or others.

• Mentorship Experience: Experience with mentoring Senior and Junior engineering for career development and growth.

• Strong experience and understanding of object oriented languages and familiarity with Objective-c, Swift, Go or TypeScript.

• Experience with mobile development and application lifecycle management.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. 

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

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