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Bernard Nickels & Associates · Port Washington, New York
Job Title:
Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Type:
Permanent / Full-Time
Port Washington, NY 11050
Compensation:
Negotiable
Position Summary
Lead high-impact technical initiatives on the proprietary core platform, driving architectural design and organizational standards.
Define frameworks, patterns, and contracts that all engineering teams build upon while retiring technical debt at scale.
Partner with Product, Design, and Infrastructure to align technical strategy with business outcomes and shape feature delivery roadmaps.
Connect independently designed custom applications, business systems, and data pipelines to ensure long-term stability and interoperability.
Drive operational excellence, operational readiness, and mentor engineering talent across the entire organization.
Key
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Lead cross-team and multi-domain technical initiatives with significant system and organizational impact.
Define organization-wide standards for data modeling, API/GraphQL contracts, testing, accessibility, documentation, and observability.
Architect shared platform capabilities and services, enforcing strict contract stability and backward compatibility.
Cohesively connect core custom platforms with enterprise business systems (NetSuite, Salesforce), EDI, and reporting tools.
Shape technical strategy in partnership with Product, Design, and Infrastructure leadership to construct feature and technical remediation roadmaps.
Facilitate architecture and design reviews; author and socialize comprehensive technical design documents.
Platform Quality, Delivery & AI Governance
Identify, quantify, and strategically sequence technical debt removal to improve system quality without delaying feature delivery.
Execute complex end-to-end migrations and platform upgrades using feature flagging, verification strategies, and clear rollback plans.
Improve organization-wide engineering KPIs, including build/deploy times, change failure rates, MTTR, p95 latency, and test reliability.
Establish standards for safe AI-assisted development, focusing on code review rigor, test coverage, and secure handling of proprietary data.
Ensure all platform architectures satisfy compliance, validation, audit-trail, and data-integrity requirements.
Operations & Cross-Functional Partnership
Own operational readiness for platform services by defining SLOs, driving capacity planning, and maintaining alert quality.
Participate in on-call rotations and lead war rooms/postmortems during major incidents to drive systemic quality fixes.
Partner closely with Quality Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Business Systems to ensure end-to-end reliability.
Translate business priorities into actionable plans while communicating risks, trade-offs, and constraints candidly.
Coach and mentor engineers across teams through design facilitation, code reviews, and internal training sessions.
Qualifications & Technical
Total
10+ years of professional software engineering experience (8 years minimum), including 3+ years operating at a Senior (Level III) or higher level with cross-team scope.
Track Record:
Proven history of leading at least one multi-team or multi-domain technical initiative from initial design through production deployment.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Core Technical Stack
Languages & Frameworks:
Deep expertise in Python (Django/Django REST Framework) and TypeScript (Angular).
APIs & Databases:
Expert-level knowledge of GraphQL schema design, PostgreSQL data modeling, and query optimization.
Cloud & Infrastructure:
Production experience with major cloud platforms (Azure strongly preferred); comfortable working within Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
Distributed Systems:
Extensive experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures (Celery, Redis, Kafka, or equivalents), including failure modes, idempotency, and back-pressure handling.
Operational & Compliance Capabilities
Production Operations:
Demonstrated ownership of production operations, including SLO management, observability, incident command, and postmortems.
Regulated Environments:
Experience in or willingness to work within validated/controlled environments (e.g., GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, SOX, HIPAA, PCI) with change-control constraints.
AI Tooling:
Disciplined use of AI-assisted development tools to increase velocity while remaining accountable for code security and correctness.
Core Competencies
System Design:
Expert-level architecture skills across backend services, data stores, and frontends.
Distributed Systems Judgment:
Deep understanding of caching, queuing, retries, partial failures, and consistency trade-offs.
Database Evolution:
Expertise in schema evolution and safe database migrations on live, high-traffic systems.
Platform & Engineering Mindset:
Focus on reducing long-term system complexity, maintaining stable interfaces, and establishing rigorous test strategies.
Influence & Mentorship:
Ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders without direct authority and elevate overall engineering talent.
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| Company | Bernard Nickels & Associates |
| Location | Port Washington, New York |
| Type | FULL TIME |
| Niche | Software and applications developers and analysts |