Fanvue is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own technical initiatives that directly impact our platform's scalability and reliability. You will lead our transition to a service-oriented architecture and build the AI infrastructure that powers our product, all while mentoring engineers across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Lead technical initiatives that directly impact platform scalability and reliability
- Scale systems from PostgreSQL to event-driven architecture, designing for tens of millions of MAU
- Drive monolith-to-services decomposition using proven patterns
- Design and implement database optimization strategies for high-throughput workloads
- Build and scale AI infrastructure, including vector stores, embedding pipelines, and LLM orchestration
- Architect systems for AI-powered features, including automated chat, content moderation, and recommendations
- Use AI coding tools to accelerate delivery and help define team standards
- Build platform primitives that enable other teams to ship faster
- Mentor engineers across the organization through code reviews, design sessions, and pairing
- Contribute to architecture decisions and technical strategy
- Participate in incident response and drive reliability improvements
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and shipping at scale
- Proven track record with distributed systems serving tens of millions of MAU
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Go, and AWS
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL at scale, including query optimization, partitioning, and replication
- Experience with service-oriented architectures and decomposition patterns
- Familiarity with AI and ML infrastructure, including vector databases, embeddings, and LLM APIs
- Fluent with AI-assisted development tools and keen to help teams adopt them effectively
- A natural mentor who elevates other engineers through example, not authority
- Strong communicator who can translate complex technical concepts for any audience
Technical Stack
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Go
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
We believe the best teams are built on diversity of thought, background, and experience. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or age.
