FloQast is a fast-growing SaaS company innovating how accounting teams close the books faster and more accurately. Our mission is to take manual, error-prone work out of financial close and give teams the tools they need to collaborate, automate, and scale. We're trusted by thousands of accounting teams, including some of the world’s most recognizable brands.
As a Staff Engineer, you will act as a technical leader across multiple teams, influencing engineering standards, architecture decisions, and long-term platform strategy.
Key Responsibility
Technical Leadership
Lead architecture and design for large-scale, high-impact systems and services.
Drive engineering best practices across teams including code quality, testing, scalability, and observability.
Identify and solve complex technical challenges that span multiple services or teams.
System Design & Scalability
Design distributed systems and services that are highly scalable, reliable, and secure.
Improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Lead initiatives around platform modernization and technical debt reduction.
Cross-Team Collaboration
Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to shape product strategy and technical roadmap.
Work across teams to align architecture decisions and engineering practices.
Influence technical direction across the organization.
Mentorship & Engineering Excellence
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.
Help raise the overall engineering bar through design reviews, architecture guidance, and technical coaching.
Required Qualifications
8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong experience building scalable distributed systems and backend services.
Expertise in modern backend technologies (commonly used stacks include languages such as Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Python, Go, or similar).
Deep understanding of:
System design and architecture
Microservices and APIs
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Database design (SQL and/or NoSQL)
Experience influencing engineering teams without direct authority.
Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams.
