Staff Engineer

You'll serve as a technical leader and force multiplier for one of our engineering squads at Jove. As a Staff Engineer, you'll guide and unblock senior engineers while shaping technical direction for our case management platform used by personal injury law firms.

What You'll Do

Guide and unblock Senior Engineers on complex technical challenges Lead technical design and architecture decisions for major features Collaborate with the Director of Engineering and Product team on long-term technical strategy Review code and provide technical mentorship across your squad Drive engineering best practices around testing, observability, and code quality Participate in daily standups and bi-weekly sprint planning sessions Ship code alongside your team while maintaining technical leadership responsibilities Identify and resolve technical debt and performance bottlenecks Contribute to infrastructure decisions and GitOps workflows Ensure features are properly instrumented for monitoring and debugging Who You'll Work With Report directly to the Director of Engineering Lead and mentor a squad of 5-6 Senior and Associate Engineers Partner with the other Staff Engineers and Project Manager on cross-squad initiatives Meet regularly with Product Managers and Designers on long-term roadmap planning Collaborate with the QA Engineer on your squad to ensure quality standards Engage with the Director of Engineering and Project Manager on technical strategy

What We're Looking For

Extensive experience building and scaling production web applications Deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and full-stack development Proven track record of technical leadership and mentoring engineers Strong architectural and system design skills