R&D Engineering, Sr Staff Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Web Development · Cloud Engineering
In short
Synopsys seeks a Staff-level web engineer and technical leader for their R&D team. This full-time role involves designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise web applications and services, driving full-stack architecture, and mentoring engineers. The position offers end-to-end accountability for outcomes in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead design, development, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise web applications and services with end-to-end accountability.
- Drive architecture across the full stack (front-end, back-end, databases, cloud), ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Set and evolve platform patterns and best practices using the PANN technology stack and associated development frameworks.
- Partner with cybersecurity, engineering, product, and business teams to define strategy, translate needs into technical roadmaps, and deliver high-value solutions.
- Own complex workflow design and deliver intuitive user experiences that simplify sophisticated business processes.
- Design and optimize relational and non-relational data architectures; guide data modeling standards and performance tuning practices.
- Lead development of AI-enabled capabilities (automation, analysis, content generation, knowledge extraction), including evaluation and responsible adoption.
- Architect integrations across business systems, knowledge repositories, and AI services; define integration standards and reusable components.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical, high-leverage solutions that improve developer velocity, user productivity, and operational excellence.
- Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, incident response practices, and continuous improvement loops.
- Mentor engineers, review designs and code for quality and security, and raise the bar for engineering execution across the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 8+ years building and owning production enterprise web applications (strong evidence of full-stack delivery, architecture leadership, and operational ownership may offset years).
- Deep experience with the PANN technology stack (PostgreSQL, Angular, NestJS, Node.js) and modern web development frameworks.
- Proven ability to design and evolve microservices architectures, including service boundaries, API contracts, and operational concerns.
- Strong experience using Prisma for data modeling, database access, and schema migrations at scale.
- Expert knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, REST APIs, and modern application architecture patterns.
- Strong experience designing, developing, and optimizing relational and non-relational databases; hands-on PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning.
- Experience containerizing and operating services with Docker and/or Kubernetes; deploying and managing web servers, load balancers, and reverse proxies (Nginx/Apache).
- Experience with cloud-based application development and deployment, including security and cost/performance tradeoffs.
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and improving developer productivity through automation.
- Practical, production-oriented experience with AI technologies (LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, knowledge extraction, automation workflows), including evaluation, safety, and quality considerations.
- Strong understanding of SDLC best practices, testing strategies, secure coding principles, and threat modeling.
- Experience integrating multiple systems through APIs, eventing, and data services; ability to create durable integration patterns.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to influence without authority and align cross-functional stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications
- Self-directed, highly accountable, and comfortable driving initiatives independently.
- Strategic thinker who still enjoys hands-on implementation and can dive deep when needed.
- A strong problem solver who can operate in ambiguity, make decisions, and deliver practical outcomes.
- Customer-focused with a strong UX mindset and attention to workflow design.
- Collaborative and effective across functions; able to align stakeholders and resolve tradeoffs.
- A mentor and technical leader who raises the bar for quality, security, and operational excellence.
- Results-oriented, focused on measurable business value and sustainable engineering practices.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries.
- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans that work for you and your family.
- ETO and FTO Programs.
- Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and more.
- Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24 month look-back.
- Retirement plans that vary by region and country.
Skills
AI/MLGenAICloudPostgreSQLAngularNestJSNode.jsPrismaJavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLCSSREST APIsDockerKubernetesNginxApacheCI/CDLLMsPrompt EngineeringRAG
#R&D#Engineering#Staff Engineer#Web Applications#Full Stack#Databases#Cloud#AI#Machine Learning#Cybersecurity
About Synopsys Inc
Smart, Secure Everything—From Silicon to Software Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way we live and work. The Internet of Things. Autonomous cars. Wearables. Smart medical devices. Secure financial services. Machine learning and computer vision. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart, Secure Everything―where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure. Powering this new era of technology are advanced silicon chips, which are made even smarter by the remarkable software that drives them. Synopsys is at…
Company
Synopsys IncJob Posted
3 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Remote
Salary
CA$118,400–177,600 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Nepean, Canada
Qualification
Bachelor
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