Job Title: Staff Software Engineer

Company: Canopy, Inc.

Location: New York City Tri-State Area

About Canopy

At Canopy, we build technology that helps make healthcare environments safer for the people delivering care. Our connected safety platform powers real-time communication, response coordination, and location intelligence across hospitals and complex care environments.

We operate in high-trust, high-reliability environments where software quality, operational resilience, and customer experience matter deeply. Our engineering organization is scaling alongside our growth, and we are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can help shape both our technical direction and the way we build.

This is not simply a feature delivery role. This is a systems-thinking role for an experienced engineer who can drive architecture, influence engineering standards, and help scale a platform, organization, and culture simultaneously.

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical leader across multiple product and platform initiatives. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Engineering leadership to design and evolve systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable as Canopy grows.

You will operate horizontally across teams — helping define architecture, improve engineering velocity, raise quality standards, and mentor engineers through influence rather than direct management.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical judgment with pragmatism, strong execution instincts, and the ability to simplify complexity in fast-moving environments.

What You’ll Own

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Lead the design and evolution of scalable full-stack systems across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and platform infrastructure
Drive architectural decisions that improve reliability, maintainability, performance, and developer velocity
Identify and address technical debt, scalability bottlenecks, and operational risks before they become business constraints
Establish and reinforce engineering best practices around observability, testing, security, resiliency, and deployment workflows
Contribute meaningfully to long-term platform and technical strategy

Full-Stack Product Development

Design and build modern web applications and services powering mission-critical healthcare workflows
Develop highly performant frontend experiences using modern frameworks such as React or Vue
Build backend systems and APIs using Node.js and distributed service architectures
Collaborate closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous requirements into elegant technical solutions
Optimize systems for usability, reliability, and operational scale

Cross-Functional Influence

Partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Experience, and Operations to solve complex organizational and technical problems
Act as a force multiplier by improving team decision-making, engineering processes, and development standards
Facilitate technical discussions and drive alignment across teams with differing priorities
Help teams balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability

Operational Excellence

Improve deployment reliability, monitoring, incident response, and production readiness practices
Contribute to scaling Canopy’s cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platform
Champion engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and operational rigor
Help define and evolve engineering operating rhythms as the company scales

Mentorship & Engineering Culture

Mentor and level up engineers through technical guidance, coaching, and example-setting
Raise the bar on technical craftsmanship and systems thinking across the organization
Foster a collaborative, high-accountability engineering culture rooted in curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement
Contribute to hiring and talent assessment for senior engineering candidates

What We’re Looking For

Required Experience

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building and scaling production systems