Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About the role

GlossGenius has been empowering independent entrepreneurs in the beauty and wellness space to pursue their dreams and successfully grow their businesses. As we continue to scale, we're expanding the highest-innovation teams,and we're building 0-to-1 products we expect to be a massive revenue driver for the business. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will act as a critical technical leader, architect, and enabler. You will own and support the technical direction of our AI enabled products, turning ambitious initiatives into clear, buildable roadmaps. This is an individual contributor role with a healthy balance of leadership and execution (roughly 60% technical planning, architecture, and proof-of-concepts, and 40% hands-on building). You will be a force multiplier for our talented engineering team - unblocking technical hurdles, keeping a healthy backlog of build-ready work, and helping to scale our AI powered products.