Staff Software Engineer - NYC Tri-State Area
Canopyworks · New York City Tri-State Area
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**Staff Software Engineer — NYC Tri-State Area** **Company:** Canopy, Inc. **Location:** New York City Tri-State Area --- ## About Canopy At Canopy, we build technology that helps make healthcare environments safer for the people delivering care. Our connected safety platform powers real-time communication, response coordination, and location intelligence across hospitals and complex care environments. This is a systems-thinking role for an experienced engineer who can drive architecture, influence engineering standards, and help scale a platform, organization, and culture simultaneously. --- ## The Role As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll serve as a senior technical leader across multiple product and platform initiatives. You’ll partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Engineering leadership to design and evolve systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable as Canopy grows. You’ll operate horizontally across teams—helping define architecture, improve engineering velocity, raise quality standards, and mentor engineers through influence rather than direct management. --- ## What You’ll Own ### Technical Leadership & Architecture - Lead the design and evolution of scalable full-stack systems across frontend, backend, APIs, and platform infrastructure - Drive architectural decisions that improve reliability, maintainability, performance, and developer velocity - Identify and address technical debt, scalability bottlenecks, and operational risks early - Establish best practices around observability, testing, security, resiliency, and deployment workflows - Contribute to long-term platform and technical strategy ### Full-Stack Product Development - Design and build modern web applications and services powering mission-critical healthcare workflows - Build high-performance frontend experiences using React or Vue - Build backend systems and APIs using Node.js and distributed service architectures - Collaborate with Product and Design to translate ambiguous requirements into elegant solutions - Optimize for usability, reliability, and operational scale ### Cross-Functional Influence - Partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Experience, and Operations to solve complex problems - Improve team decision-making, engineering processes, and development standards - Facilitate technical discussions and drive alignment across teams - Help teams balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability ### Operational Excellence - Improve deployment reliability, monitoring, incident response, and production readiness - Contribute to scaling Canopy’s cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platform - Champion engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and operational rigor - Help define and evolve engineering operating rhythms as the company scales ### Mentorship & Engineering Culture - Mentor and level up engineers through technical guidance, coaching, and example-setting - Raise the bar on technical craftsmanship and systems thinking - Foster a collaborative, high-accountability culture rooted in curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement - Contribute to hiring and talent assessment for senior engineering candidates --- ## What We’re Looking For ### Required Experience - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and scaling production systems - Demonstrated Staff Engineer scope across teams or domains - Strong expertise in modern full-stack development - Deep profic
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