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We are all social creatures, but the dominant social companies today have evolved into digital loneliness machines, driving isolation, anxiety, and mental health challenges across our lives. About POSH
We are all social creatures, but the dominant social companies today have evolved into digital loneliness machines, driving isolation, anxiety, and mental health challenges across our lives.
Human connection is lost. Posh is a beacon guiding us back.
Posh enables anyone to become an event organizer, build a community around their followers, and bring people together in person to cultivate real-world human connections. Founded by event enthusiasts and college dropouts, weve built the ultimate tools for creating, marketing, and monetizing in-person communities globally. In just three years, Posh has grown to a team of 60, expanded to 5M+ users, secured $40m in venture funding, and facilitated over $220M in transactions. We've achieved more than teams ten times our size in a tenth of the timeand there's so much more to come.
About The Role
At POSH, youll drive the technical strategy and shape the systems that connect millions of people through live events. As a Staff Engineer, youll lead high-impact, cross-functional projects, influencing architecture, product direction, and organizational standards. Your leadership will extend beyond codingyoull mentor senior engineers, establish best practices, and help set the course for POSHs technical evolution.
This is an in-person position at our New York City office in the heart of SoHo, where youll play a pivotal role in revolutionizing how people connect in the real world.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and influence high-impact, cross-functional technical initiatives with product and engineering leadership. Guide critical architectural decisions and shape long-term technical strategy, balancing innovation with business objectives. Drive organizational standards for scalability, performance, security, and developer experience across multiple teams. Mentor and grow senior engineers through coaching, workshops, and documentation; foster a culture of diverse thinking, constructive feedback, and continuous improvement. Promote org-wide knowledge sharing, code quality, and technical excellence. Partner with leadership to align technical initiatives with product vision and business goals. Lead innovation in architecture, infrastructure, and product systems, ensuring adaptability as POSH scales. Balance rapid experimentation with sustainable design, driving forward both business growth and developer productivity.
Ideal Candidate
10+ years of experience leading complex, large-scale technical projects with broad organizational impact. Deep expertise in one or more domains (e.g., frontend systems, backend architecture, infrastructure) with the ability to guide others across the full stack. Proven track record shaping technical strategy and making architectural decisions that balance scalability, sustainability, and business goals. Experience mentoring and developing senior engineers, creating structures for org-wide growth and knowledge sharing. Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams. Proficiency in relevant technologies (e.g., React, React Native, Typescript, AWS or similar cloud providers), with strong experience in either mobile app development or backend systems. Experience at consumer, social, or marketplace companies a plus, demonstrating alignment with POSHs mission of user-focused community building.
Posh provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Posh is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability
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Staff Software Engineer
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Posh Join to apply for the
Staff Software Engineer
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Posh Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. About POSH
We are all social creatures, but the dominant social companies today have evolved into digital loneliness machines, driving isolation, anxiety, and mental health challenges across our lives. About POSH
We are all social creatures, but the dominant social companies today have evolved into digital loneliness machines, driving isolation, anxiety, and mental health challenges across our lives.
Human connection is lost. Posh is a beacon guiding us back.
Posh enables anyone to become an event organizer, build a community around their followers, and bring people together in person to cultivate real-world human connections. Founded by event enthusiasts and college dropouts, weve built the ultimate tools for creating, marketing, and monetizing in-person communities globally. In just three years, Posh has grown to a team of 60, expanded to 5M+ users, secured $40m in venture funding, and facilitated over $220M in transactions. We've achieved more than teams ten times our size in a tenth of the timeand there's so much more to come.
About The Role
At POSH, youll drive the technical strategy and shape the systems that connect millions of people through live events. As a Staff Engineer, youll lead high-impact, cross-functional projects, influencing architecture, product direction, and organizational standards. Your leadership will extend beyond codingyoull mentor senior engineers, establish best practices, and help set the course for POSHs technical evolution.
This is an in-person position at our New York City office in the heart of SoHo, where youll play a pivotal role in revolutionizing how people connect in the real world.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and influence high-impact, cross-functional technical initiatives with product and engineering leadership. Guide critical architectural decisions and shape long-term technical strategy, balancing innovation with business objectives. Drive organizational standards for scalability, performance, security, and developer experience across multiple teams. Mentor and grow senior engineers through coaching, workshops, and documentation; foster a culture of diverse thinking, constructive feedback, and continuous improvement. Promote org-wide knowledge sharing, code quality, and technical excellence. Partner with leadership to align technical initiatives with product vision and business goals. Lead innovation in architecture, infrastructure, and product systems, ensuring adaptability as POSH scales. Balance rapid experimentation with sustainable design, driving forward both business growth and developer productivity.
Ideal Candidate
10+ years of experience leading complex, large-scale technical projects with broad organizational impact. Deep expertise in one or more domains (e.g., frontend systems, backend architecture, infrastructure) with the ability to guide others across the full stack. Proven track record shaping technical strategy and making architectural decisions that balance scalability, sustainability, and business goals. Experience mentoring and developing senior engineers, creating structures for org-wide growth and knowledge sharing. Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams. Proficiency in relevant technologies (e.g., React, React Native, Typescript, AWS or similar cloud providers), with strong experience in either mobile app development or backend systems. Experience at consumer, social, or marketplace companies a plus, demonstrating alignment with POSHs mission of user-focused community building.
Posh provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Posh is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability
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