Staff Software Engineer

Meadow, United States (remote) +2

Overview

Meadow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale our student financial engagement platform, Meadow Pay. As we continue expanding to universities nationwide, this role will be critical in delivering reliable, scalable product experiences for our institutional partners and their students.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate core systems across our backend and frontend stack, partnering closely with Product, CX, and Integrations to deliver high-quality software. This role requires strong technical judgment, a high bar for quality, and a desire to take ownership of meaningful product areas from concept through production.

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Staff Software Engineer

Meadow, United States (remote) +2

Posted pay

$185K–$276K

a year

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Location: United States (remote) +2
Work type: Remote
Level: Staff
Experience: 10+ years
Skills in the job text: TypeScript
Node.js
Posted: Sep 30, 2026
Last check: 7 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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What you need

What you bring

10+ Years of Experience in Product Engineering
You have experience building and operating production systems at scale.
Ownership
Builder Mindset: You demonstrate High Agency x High Urgency.
You own problems end-to-end.
You make consequential decisions that impact outcomes.
Agency: You make significant decisions across projects and act on them without waiting for consensus. You are comfortable committing under uncertainty and getting others moving.
Decisions: You make high-stakes calls that hold up over time. You are the person others trust to be right for big technical decisions.
Operational Excellence: You drive sweeping improvements to stability/performance/scalability of business-critical systems and raise the operational bar for other engineers.
Product Sense
Empathy: You understand users broadly and deeply, across segments and personas, internal and external alike. You anticipate needs users have not voiced yet and see how those needs are changing over time, not just what they want today.
Creativity: You generate original solutions to open, ambiguous problems, grounded in what is technically feasible. You use deep technical insight to spot approaches others miss, including what is newly possible, and frame options that are both inventive and buildable.
Taste: You hold the quality bar high across the full stack, from how systems are designed to how the experience feels for users, internal and external.
Technical Depth
Design & Architecture: You make elegant decisions that reduce complexity and scale across multiple components. You make design choices that make whole categories of bugs, outages, and scaling problems impossible.
Problem Solving: You connect the dots to solve problems that span multiple, distant components, seeing the links others miss. You are the trusted person on hard, cross-cutting problems.
Tooling & Verification: You set the verification and eval bar that makes high-speed, agent-driven change safe.
Tech Debt: You spot architectural debt that constrains multiple pods, sequence the multi-cycle plan to remove it, and set the standards that keep it from re-accumulating.
AI Fluency
You default to AI-first approaches where appropriate and have built workflows, tooling, or practices that improve output beyond just themselves.
You demonstrate strong judgment about tradeoffs and failure modes by choosing tools intentionally, validating outputs, and building review, testing, or mitigation into the workflow.
Communication & Collaboration
You facilitate cross-pod discussions and guide hard debates to consensus — then clearly back the decision, even when it isn't your first choice.
You work fluidly across Product, Design, CX, and Sales, reaching to functions further from Engineering to align on direction.

What makes you stand out

Experience at an Early Stage Startup (Seed, Series A, Series B)
Experience in FinTech (Or Other Regulated Industries)
Experience as a People Manager and/or Technical Lead

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