Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. A Place for Mom is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction and architecture of its public web platform. The role focuses on web performance, technical SEO, experimentation and analytics, AI features, and technical leadership across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture of our Next.js and React web platform, choosing the right rendering strategy (SSR, SSG/ISR, CSR, streaming) for each page type
- Own mobile-first performance and Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS): set budgets, monitor real users, and drive measurable gains
- Partner with SEO and marketing on technical SEO: crawlability, indexation, structured data, canonicals, redirects, sitemaps, and SEM landing pages
- Build Node.js services and APIs on MongoDB and relational stores, with caching at the edge and server layers
- Evolve our headless CMS (Sanity) so content and marketing teams can ship pages without engineering bottlenecks
- Build experimentation and analytics foundations: feature flags, A/B tests, SSR-safe flag evaluation, and a trustworthy event taxonomy (PostHog, Segment, or similar)
- Champion quality and continuous deployment through testing (unit, integration, e2e), pipeline automation, and design system adoption
- Review code, create reference implementations, and mentor engineers across the team
- Resolve production issues end to end, from the browser through the CDN, rendering, and service layers, and prevent recurrence
- Partner with product and project managers to deliver on time, and keep technical documentation current
- Architect smaller AI features end to end—retrieval, orchestration, failure modes, and monitoring—such as AI-assisted search, content generation, or personalization on our site
- Guide teams in responsible AI patterns, testing, and observability
- Partner with Product to size the feasibility, technical risk, cost, and scalability of AI features
- Identify repeatable frameworks and components that can become paved paths for other teams
- Improve AI evaluation practices, including quality scoring, metrics, and fallbacks
- Use AI coding agents in your daily workflow and help define how the team adopts them
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js, including high-traffic public websites
- Deep expertise in Next.js (or a similar framework) and rendering strategies—SSR, SSG/ISR, CSR, hydration, and streaming—and their impact on SEO, performance, and cost
- Proven track record improving Core Web Vitals and mobile performance using tools like Lighthouse, CrUX, and real-user monitoring
- Strong technical SEO knowledge, including how JavaScript rendering affects search engines
- Working back-end knowledge: Node.js APIs and services, MongoDB, and relational databases (GraphQL a plus)
- Understanding of headless CMS concepts: content modeling, preview, and publishing workflows
- Understanding of experimentation, feature flagging, and product analytics: test design, flag lifecycle, event tracking, and data quality
- Hands-on experience building LLM-backed features (prompt design, retrieval, structured output, evaluation, cost and latency management) and fluency with AI coding agents
- Experience with AWS, CDNs, and edge caching
- Track record of technical leadership: setting standards, mentoring engineers, and owning quality from design to production
- Programmatic SEO at scale, such as thousands of templated location or listing pages
- SEM landing pages and conversion rate optimization
- Edge rendering and middleware (Vercel, CloudFront, or similar)
- Healthcare, senior care, or privacy-aware analytics and consent management
Benefits
- 20% of annual earnings bonus
- 401(k) plus match
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid Time Off
- This position could sit hybrid in our NYC office or for the right candidate they could be fully remote in the US
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