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Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join OakNorth's Engineering team. This role involves working with product and engineering across multiple squads to ensure the right technical and business trade-offs are made, dependencies are managed proactively, and execution remains predictable.
Key Responsibilities
- →Drive cross-squad technical outcomes: shape solutions for ambiguous, complex problems and guide squads toward sensible architectural decisions
- →Own technical decision-making mechanisms: write and steward RFCs/ADRs, run design reviews, document trade-offs, and ensure decisions are understood and adopted
- →Manage dependencies and execution risks: map dependencies, surface risks early, propose mitigation options, and keep stakeholders aligned as plans evolve
- →Communicate proactively and clearly: provide regular written updates on progress, risks, and changes in outlook; maintain a shared source of truth for key initiatives
- →Measure success by business impact: optimise for customer outcomes, reliability, and sustainable delivery
- →Raise quality and engineering standards: set expectations for code health, testing strategy, performance, resiliency, and production readiness
- →Embrace DevOps culture: improve operability, observability, incident response, and root-cause elimination
- →Build secure and resilient systems by design: partner early with Cyber/Risk to embed security and compliance considerations
- →Multiply others: coach and mentor engineers, help leads level up planning and technical direction
- →Continuously improve platforms and developer experience
Requirements
- ✓Strong technical background with 12+ years designing and engineering large-scale systems
- ✓Proven ability to lead architectural decisions on complex systems with multiple stakeholders
- ✓Strong judgement: prefer simple, maintainable solutions over unnecessary complexity
- ✓Comfortable operating in ambiguity and organized amidst chaos
- ✓Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management
- ✓Broad systems thinker with the ability to anticipate downstream impacts
- ✓Willing to challenge constructively, debate options, and then commit to the chosen path
Benefits
- ★Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned
- ★Health Insurance for employee and dependents
- ★Wellbeing and social events
- ★Support causes that matter to you – Volunteering time off
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