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Staff Engineer

Other • Principal • Remote • Full-time • European Union EU/EMEA

A remote, contract Staff Engineer role at G2i, setting technical direction and leading a full-stack engineering team building developer platforms and dashboards for AI-focused clients.

Responsibilities

  • ▹Lead and grow an engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
  • ▹Set and evolve technical strategy for developer platforms, dashboards, and internal tooling
  • ▹Partner with Product and Design to deliver roadmap outcomes
  • ▹Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, security, and operations
  • ▹Own delivery health, sprint hygiene, and on-call/incident practices
  • ▹Drive architecture decisions across front-end, back-end (tRPC encouraged), and deployment with Docker and CI/CD
  • ▹Build a culture of ownership, feedback, and continuous improvement

Requirements

  • ▹7+ years building software, including 2-4+ years leading teams (EM/Tech Lead/Head of Engineering)
  • ▹Strong full-stack understanding with React and Node.js, modern front-end patterns, SSR/performance, API design
  • ▹Experience shipping and operating production systems, including cloud, CI/CD, observability, and incident management
  • ▹Proven ability to balance speed with quality in startup environments

Soft skills

Strong communicator with clear judgmentTrack record of developing engineers

What we offer

  • ▹Remote-first, global team
  • ▹Contract leadership roles considered, up to 6 months
  • ▹Hourly compensation of 120-200 USD, based on experience and location

About the company

G2i helps startups hire senior engineers faster through video-based technical evaluation, and has placed thousands of developers worldwide since 2016.

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