Senior Staff Software Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer who operates at the intersection of architecture, execution, and organizational leverage. You will be responsible for the technical direction and long-term health of MLG’s e-governance land records and property platform—a mission-critical public infrastructure system.

In this role, you will define system architecture across backend platforms, web applications, and blockchain integration layers, while remaining hands-on in the most complex and high-impact areas. You will partner closely with product, design, and engineering leaders to translate ambiguous government requirements into secure, scalable, and auditable systems used by governments, partners, and citizens.

• This role is for a high-output engineer who views AI tools (LLMs, SLMs, Cursor, Agents) as their primary force multiplier. You should be someone who can build at the speed of five engineers by leveraging a cutting-edge "AI-first" development workflow.
• Own and evolve the end-to-end technical architecture for the platform, spanning backend services, frontend applications, data models, and on-chain/off-chain integration.
• Act as a technical authority for cross-team design decisions; lead architecture reviews and influence roadmap tradeoffs.
• Identify systemic risks and drive long-term technical investments across scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.

• Design and build core backend platforms for land-record ingestion, workflow/case management, approvals, audit trails, and partner APIs.
• Define multi-tenant system models, including data isolation, row-level security, retention policies, and compliance-grade auditability.
• Design event-driven architectures and workflow orchestration patterns supporting complex, multi-step government processes.

• Define and implement the on-chain/off-chain strategy for anchoring record provenance and workflow events using EVM-compatible chains (BNB Chain / Ethereum).
• Design transaction orchestration patterns including idempotency, retries, confirmation tracking, and reconciliation without exposing sensitive data.

• Guide the architecture of React/Type Script web applications that simplify complex e-governance workflows for administrators, partners, and operators.
• Ensure frontend systems meet high standards for performance, accessibility, usability, and long-term maintainability.

• Define and uphold reliability and performance expectations including SLOs, observability, alerting, and incident readiness.
• Ensure systems are production-ready for citizen-scale traffic and government-grade uptime requirements.

• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the bar for system design, code quality, and technical decision-making.
• Establish engineering standards, shared patterns, and core infrastructure that enable teams to move faster with confidence.
• Partner with engineering leadership on technical strategy, hiring signals, and engineering maturity.

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of large, complex production systems.
• Demonstrated experience operating as a technical leader across teams or domains (architecture ownership, platform leadership, or equivalent).
• Deep backend expertise in distributed systems, API design, data modeling, security, and operational ownership.
• Strong frontend experience with modern React/Type Script, including performance optimization, accessibility, and state management.
• Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, with solid CI/CD practices.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces and translate requirements into durable system designs.

• Experience integrating with EVM-compatible blockchains and designing blockchain-backed verification systems.
• Experience building B2G or regulated B2B platforms with strict audit, compliance, and data-integrity requirements.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, workflow engines, and search platforms (Elasticsearch/Open Search).
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and privacy-by-design principles.
• Experience designing partner-facing platforms including API standards, rate limiting, documentation, and onboarding.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering, with demonstrable staff-level scope (driving cross-team technical decisions, not just shipping features)
• Production full-stack experience:
  Type Script + React on the frontend, and a strong backend language (e.g., Java/Kotlin, Go, or Python)
• Hands-on experience building and operating Kafka / event-driven systems in production (not just "exposure")
• Practical experience integrating LLM APIs into production features (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, or similar) — prompt design, streaming responses, tool/function calling
• Distributed systems and…