Senior Staff Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer

We're urgently hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to join our growing LATAM-based remote team.

Help Us Build the Future of Outdoor Services

At LawnStarter, we're transforming the $100B+ outdoor home services industry—making it easier for homeowners to book, manage, and enjoy services like lawn care, landscaping, and more. With $30M+ in venture funding and solid traction, we're investing in the next generation of our platform—and we're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help drive it.

See what we're building

Why This Role Rocks

• Own What You Build – Lead projects end-to-end with full autonomy and real impact.
• Remote & Flexible – Work from anywhere and set your own hours.
• Build Meaningful Tech – Help shape the tools that thousands of homeowners and service pros rely on daily.
• Join at the Right Time – We have strong product-market fit and real momentum—you'll help define what comes next.

• Languages & Frameworks: PHP (Laravel), JavaScript (React, React Native, Vue)
• Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora, Redshift)
• Approach: We're not fixated on specific languages. If you have strong engineering fundamentals and experience with any mainstream object-oriented language, we believe you can quickly learn and adapt to our tech stack.

As a Senior Staff Engineer , you'll work closely with the Software Architect and other engineers to:

• Collaborate on designing and implementing system architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards.
• Lead technical initiatives across teams, ensuring alignment with architectural direction and goals.
• Build and maintain platform-level components , services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and hands-on guidance.
• Contribute directly to both server-side and client-side development across the entire stack.
• Write and review technical design documents , system diagrams, and reference implementations.
• Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve our platform.
• Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security throughout our system.
• Share knowledge and insights to foster team growth and improvement.
  

• We're looking for someone who is:
  • Experienced:
    • A principal engineer, lead full-stack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles.
    • Highly skilled in both server-side and client-side software development.
      • Technically Proficient:
        • Familiar with cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
        • Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD) , RESTful APIs , React , MVC frameworks , and security concerns (e.g., XSS attacks).
          • Fundamentally Strong in Computer Science Concepts:
            • You can explain concepts like Big O notation , pointers , composition vs. inheritance , and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists .
              • Database-Savvy:
                • Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD , indexes , and joins .
                  • Cloud Infrastructure Expert:
                    • Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora ) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) .
                      • Customer-Centric:
                        • Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability.

All team members at LawnStater are expected to embody our core values which are: Be data-driven, Get shit done, People are critical, Challenge the status quo, Be scrappy, and Be the Customer.

VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER: Please upload your English resume—applications without it will not be considered.

• Perks of Working with Us
  • Competitive contract rate
  • Work from anywhere
  • Flexible hours—get the work done on your schedule
  • High ownership and autonomy
  • Fast-moving team that loves to build, learn, and grow

LawnStarter is building the future of outdoor home services. Want to help us shape it?
Apply now and let's grow together.