Staff Engineer

Job description

Are you a builder, problem solver, systems thinker? We’re looking for people who like hard missions, who can step into complex systems, figure out what’s actually going on, and make them work at scale. Performativ is rebuilding core infrastructure for wealth management. The problems are real: data consistency, distributed systems, performance under load, and workflows that need to hold up across millions of client interactions. You won’t be given a neatly scoped area. You’ll be expected to move to where things break, where things slow down, or where things don’t scale — and fix them. You’ll also be expected to rethink how we build. We are actively using AI and agent-based tooling driving our development workflows, and we expect you to push this further in a way that increases speed without losing control. What You’ll Do 📈: Take on the hardest technical problems across the platform and drive them to resolution Move across teams and systems to improve scalability, performance, and reliability Design and evolve distributed systems operating at million-client scale Find weak points early and fix them before they turn into incidents Write production-grade code in the parts of the system...