Staff Engineer, Backend Developer

Founded in 2017, Dutchie is a comprehensive technology platform powering dispensary operations, while providing consumers with safe and easy access to cannabis. Dutchie aims to further support the positive societal change the cannabis industry brings to the world through wellness benefits, social justice, and empowering local communities through tax revenue. Powering thousands of dispensaries across 40+ markets throughout the United States and Canada, Dutchie is the leading technology company in the cannabis space and was named in Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in North America and listed two years in a row on Linked In’s Top 50 Startups.

Dutchie has raised over $600M in funding to date, backed by D1 Capital Partners, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DFJ Growth, Thrive Capital, Howard Schultz, Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital, Gron Ventures, members of the founding team at Door Dash, Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures, and other notable angel investors.

We’re hiring a Staff Engineer at Dutchie — someone who works across teams to solve the hardest problems, spot them early, and steer the technical direction so we hit fewer of them down the road. You’ll work at the core of our platform: making it better, faster, and more reliable; and partner with teams across the org on the integrations and shared problems no single team owns.

You’ll shape how we build, including what good engineering looks like when AI is part of everyday work. The world of cannabis changes constantly, and we optimize our process for meeting that need while maintaining a high quality bar. We push context down, concerns up, and lean on a strong bias for ownership. If that’s your kind of place, let’s talk.

• Make real improvements to enterprise-grade retail software at scale
• Set technical direction — make the architecture calls that shape how systems evolve, and align teams behind them
• Work with stakeholders to scope, sharpen, and stress-test customer-facing features
• Get in front of customers to learn how they work and where it hurts, then turn that into better products
• Partner across the org on unified solutions for problems that span teams
• Mentor other engineers — everyone had help to get here, reinforce your own skills by helping others grow theirs
• Help the team plan, estimate, and de-risk big work by breaking it down and sequencing it well
• Set the bar for engineering judgment, code quality, and craft

We’re flexible on years of experience. The depth and influence we’re after usually show up around 8+ years in, but it’s about what you can do, not the number on your résumé.

• A track record of building and running production systems at scale
• Deep, hands‑on experience in at least one modern backend stack — across Dutchie you’ll find .NET/C#, Type Script, Ruby, and React on the frontend, backed by PostgreSQL, MS SQL, and MongoDB. We care more about how fast you ramp than a perfect stack match on day one
• Experience designing scalable data models across relational and non-relational stores
• Pride in your craft — code that’s clean, tested, and easy for the next person to build on

• You use LLMs routinely — researching unfamiliar systems, diagnosing issues, planning solutions to messy problems, writing and reviewing code, and watching what you ship
• You are comfortable and excited about an agentic first environment. You know how to utilize AI to ship better solutions faster and safer than you could by hand alone.
• You raise the team’s baseline — turning one-off wins into repeatable practices

• You make the people around you better — your biggest impact isn’t just your code, it’s…