Staff Software Engineer (Growth)
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- Own business critical end-to-end efforts on performance marketing initiatives, working closely with the marketing, product, data science and analytics teams to deliver high-quality and high-performance tooling and systems
- Drive technical design and architecture for growth engineering systems, including campaign management, ads bidding optimization, and creative generation pipelines
- Collaborate across other engineering teams and the data science org to understand and implement business requirements
- Partner with stakeholders to define and refine requirements, ensuring they are translated into actionable tasks and milestones
- Define performance metrics and drive data-driven decisions across the growth stack
- Identify and resolve systemic engineering gaps — reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and scaling constraints — proactively
- Drive a code review culture and contribute to the development of architecture and design, and help identify and resolve performance issues
- Drive alignment with leadership and team members along with your management counterparts
- The ideal candidate is a deeply technical growth engineer who combines hands-on execution with system-level thinking
- You have built and operated production-grade marketing automation systems at scale — from campaign management pipelines and ads bidding infrastructure to creative generation tooling and experimentation frameworks — and you take pride in engineering platforms that drive measurable business outcomes
- You are the kind of engineer who gravitates toward the hardest problems at the intersection of technology and performance marketing: designing a low-latency bidding optimization engine, building a reliable creative generation pipeline, or defining the architectural patterns that will shape how Quince scales its growth stack
- You operate with high autonomy, hold yourself to exceptional standards, and naturally raise the bar for the engineers around you through rigorous code reviews, sharp technical judgment, and a bias toward clean, durable solutions over quick fixes
- Demonstrated ability to optimize service availability, performance, and stability through operational excellence
- Deep familiarity with full-stack development workflows, product ownership, and cross-functional collaboration
- You can effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You are an advocate for maintaining the highest standards in terms of code quality, latency, and observability
- 8+ years of industry experience building and shipping high-impact software systems
- Experience building and maintaining highly reliable distributed systems that operate at scale
- Knowledge of campaign management and ads bidding optimization is a strong plus
- You have excellent computer science fundamentals
- You are a curious, quick learner, scrappy, and someone who loves to experiment
- Experience with A/B testing frameworks and data-driven experimentation
- Proven experience in growth engineering, including building and owning performance marketing tools, campaign automation pipelines, or ads optimization systems
- Experience partnering with Data Science to drive performance marketing efficiency
- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good at handling ambiguity