Staff Software Engineer

Job Overview

Within Arm's Strategy and Ecosystem (STE) group, the AI Developer Cloud Systems team helps shape how developers around the world experience Arm. We design, build and operate public-facing web platforms, cloud services and APIs that make it easier to discover, adopt and use Arm technologies across multiple sectors.

This is a great opportunity to join the team as a Staff Software Engineer, combining hands-on full-stack engineering with meaningful leadership influence across teams and locations, while continuing to learn, grow and develop as both an engineer and a leader. You will operate as a senior engineering leader and multiplier, with impact coming both from the systems you help build and evolve and from how you guide, align and elevate engineers across locations.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced leader and full-stack developer who operates comfortably both organisationally and technically. Engaging as a engineering leader who helps teams find common direction, navigate ambiguity, and work collaboratively together across locations, while also contributing directly to the design, implementation, and evolution of complex web platforms, APIs, and cloud services.

As a hands-on leadership role, you will continue to write production code while working closely with engineers, architects, product managers, UX designers and SRE to ensure teams are aligned on priorities, technical direction and delivery expectations. This role requires strong leadership, influence and mentoring skills, particularly in a distributed, hybrid environment.

Key Responsibilities Team Leadership & Alignment

We expect this role to provide engineering leadership across full-stack teams in multiple locations, building cohesion, shared ownership and a common direction. The role acts as a unifying presence, aligning engineers across sites through clear communication, decision-making and ownership, while working with engineering management to identify and address risks to delivery, alignment and team health. Inclusive, collaborative ways of working that support hybrid and remote teams are essential.

Full-Stack Development

We expect a strong hands-on contribution, owning significant pieces of full-stack functionality across front-end applications, back-end services and APIs. The role involves designing and implementing solutions to complex problems, exercising sound engineering judgement, and balancing delivery, quality and sustainability, and setting a positive example for others.

Mentoring & Line Management

We value leaders who coach and mentor engineers to grow their judgement, ownership and impact. Where appropriate, the role may include line management responsibilities, supporting goal-setting, feedback, performance and career development, while fostering a psychologically safe environment in which people can do their best work and influence outcomes.

Skills and Experience

We value strong technical foundations combined with leadership capability and people focus:

• Proven experience as a senior or staff-level full-stack engineer, building, operating and maintaining production web platforms and cloud systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence engineers across multiple teams and locations, with or without direct line management.
• Experience working across the full software lifecycle: discovery, design, implementation, deployment, operation, and maintenance.
• Solid understanding of modern web architectures, contract-defined APIs, and cloud-native service design.
• Experience mentoring engineers and, ideally, people management or line management experience, or readiness to take this on.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to align teams, resolve ambiguity, and build shared understanding across geographies.
• Ability to assess and apply AI-assisted development approaches, understanding their impact across the software lifecycle.

Experience with the following technologies and practices is beneficial, but not essential:

• TypeScript / JavaScript (React, Next.js, Node.js), Python, Go.
• API design and contract-first approaches, across REST, GraphQL, gRPC.
• IAM and security fundamentals (JWTs, OAuth2 and OIDC).
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment (e.g. GitHub Actions).
• Cloud platforms and containerisation (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Achieving and maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Observability, monitoring, and incident response practices.

In Return

We will help you settle into the business and support you to do meaningful, impactful work while growing as a technical leader.

On top of that, we offer:

• Opportunities to shape and lead user-facing platforms used by a global developer audience.
• The chance to influence how distributed engineering teams collaborate and deliver.
• Support for leadership and people-management development.
• A competitive salary and comprehensive rewards package.
• Health and wellbeing support.
• Hybrid working, with regular in-office collaboration (typically Tuesday to Thursday) to support strong team cohesion.

Accommodations contact:

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.