Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

About Maze

Maze is the user research platform that helps companies build the right products faster by making user insights available at the speed of product development.

In most companies, research demand far exceeds supply. Time, cost, and lack of access to expertise hold teams back. In today’s AI-powered world, anyone can build a product fast. The real challenge? Deeply understanding user needs and building the right product. That’s where Maze comes in.

We believe companies shouldn’t have to choose between building fast and building right. Maze makes research accessible, intuitive, and fast so product teams can put user insights at the center of every decision.

Our platform enables researchers, designers, and product managers to quickly recruit participants, run studies autonomously, and surface insights that actually drive product decisions. Our AI capabilities automate the busywork and add depth and direction to the insights themselves.

That’s why Maze was recently named the #1 user research platform in UX Tools’ Design Tools Survey—and why we’re scaling fast across industries like B2B SaaS, e-Commerce, Financial Services, Retail, and Automotive, supporting world class customers such as Uber, Amazon, Atlassian, Anthropic & more.

Maze is a Series B company backed by top-tier investors (Felicis, Emergence & Amplify). We operate a global remote workforce driven by our core values.

The Role

As a Staff Engineer on the Product Engineering team, you'll lead the design and delivery of high impact features, working closely with product, design, and engineering to solve complex problems and ensure our systems are scalable, maintainable, and a joy to work on. This is a hands on leadership role — you’ll architect solutions, write code, mentor engineers, and shape our technical strategy.

What You'll Do

• Design and build features and systems that directly impact the customer experience.
• Architect scalable, maintainable solutions for complex product challenges.
• Set technical standards, patterns, and practices that raise the engineering bar.
• Partner with product and design to shape solutions from concept to delivery.
• Remove blockers, improve workflows, and enable teams to deliver faster.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across teams.
• Research, prototype, and introduce new tools, frameworks, and patterns.

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Technical Excellence

• 8+ years building user facing applications; 3+ years at Staff or Principal level.
• Deep expertise in modern full stack JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js + React) and relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• Proven track record delivering high quality features at scale and improving team velocity.
• Strong communicator who can influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Skilled in performance optimization, maintainability, and security best practices.

Leadership & Impact

• Demonstrated ability to accelerate teams through technical improvements.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
• Hands on experience delivering complex features from concept to production.
• Understanding of performance optimization, maintainability, and security in web applications.
• Pragmatic decision maker balancing innovation with stability.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions while advocating for engineering best practices.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Next.js, NestJS, GraphQL, and/or TypeScript at scale.
• Experience architecting high-scale systems on AWS and/or Kubernetes.
• Strong perspective on UX, UI design, and the research space.

Inclusivity and Pay

At Maze, we are dedicated to building an equitable, inclusive, and authentic workspace. Unique and diverse perspectives are welcomed, and continuous growth is encouraged. We believe that people are more than their resumes, so if your past experience looks different than the criteria listed, we'd still love to hear from you.

Salary: $161.2K - $189.6K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: FullTime