Staff Software Engineer (Front-end)

Gigs is building an operating system for mobile services, enabling tech companies to embed global connectivity. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Front-end) to design cross-cutting architectures, raise operational excellence, and mentor senior engineers.

• Design and evolve cross-cutting architectures (event-driven systems, multi-carrier integrations, multi-tenant platform patterns) and establish the governance and review practices to keep them coherent as we grow
• Raise the bar on operational excellence. Not just the systems (observability, SLOs, graceful degradation) but the processes and culture around incident response, on-call, and production ownership
• Find the places where AI changes the work, primarily in our platform and engineering practices, and push those forward
• Mentor senior engineers and help define what the senior IC growth path looks like at Gigs
• Ship production code and shape technical strategy with our engineering leadership

• Experience developing, running, and maintaining distributed systems and event-driven architectures at scale
• Strong operational instincts. You think about observability, failure modes, alerting, and graceful degradation as first-class concerns, not afterthoughts. You’ve built systems that are debuggable by someone who didn’t write them
• Experience navigating and rationalizing polyglot environments
• Experience with agentic AI development. You’ve worked with LLMs beyond code completion, understand agentic patterns, and have opinions on when AI is the right tool and when it isn’t
• Track record of driving technical outcomes across teams without direct authority. You persuade through credibility and evidence, not rank
• Engineers around you got better because you were there, and you can point to specifics
• Experience in telecom, payments, or multi-market API platforms
• Familiarity with any of our stack (React, TypeScript, Next.js, Ruby, Go)
• Experience at companies during a similar scaling phase (50 → 200 engineers)
• Background in domain-driven design or platform/product boundary work

• competitive compensation and stock options
• stipends for your home office or work setup
• budget for learning and development
• free phone and international data plan