Staff Full Stack Engineer

Spara (Headquarters: New York, NY (Hybrid))

Full Stack Python JavaScript TypeScript React Tailwind Postgres pgvector Google Cloud Docker GitHub Actions FastAPI Full Stack Engineer Staff Engineer

**About Spara:** Spara builds enterprise-grade AI agents that engage, qualify, and convert sales leads into revenue. We're solving a complex, high-impact sales problem ($28B market) through sophisticated multi-modal interactions, leveraging leading-edge foundation models across multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google...).

**About The Role:** We are seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer to join our Infrastructure Foundations team, where you will play a key role in driving the technical strategy, execution, and leadership of projects across full-stack development, cloud orchestration, and AI integration. This is an exciting opportunity to significantly impact the scalability, reliability, and operational excellence of Spara's platform infrastructure, while also mentoring and guiding the team.

**What You'll Do / Responsibilities:**
- Lead the design and development of systems that optimize platform performance and scale for global expansion.
- Drive architectural decisions for high-impact projects, ensuring scalability and reliability of our full-stack applications.
- Co-author long-term technical roadmaps that set the vision for platform scalability, performance, and engineering velocity.
- Set the standard for a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
- Build and nurture effective partnerships across engineering, product, and security teams to align on platform infrastructure goals.
- Lead and conduct design reviews for critical projects with a focus on system-level tradeoffs and platform scalability.
- Drive the design and implementation of “secure by default” platform systems in collaboration with security teams.
- Act as a key stakeholder by engaging with customers and internal teams to understand business requirements and deliver innovative solutions.

**What You'll Bring / Requirements / Qualifications:**
- Proven experience leading complex engineering efforts focused on full-stack development, cloud orchestration, and AI integration.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to align stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.
- A track record of contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and making thoughtful system-level tradeoffs.
- At least 8+ years of coding experience in languages like JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, with strong expertise in writing concurrent and distributed code.
- Extensive experience designing and building distributed systems, leveraging concurrency primitives, and optimizing platform performance.
- Deep expertise in full-stack development, cloud platforms, and AI integration systems.
- Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and the ability to optimize cost, performance, and scalability.
- A strong sense of ownership and the ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term strategic goals.