# Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead – Merryfield at Attain

- Company: Attain
- What the company does: Attain helps food distributors boost revenue, digitize orders, manage invoices, and collect payments by offering stores a branded online experience to buy inventory from. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://joinattain.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-02-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/attain/jobs/5798587004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/attain-staff-software-engineer-technical-lead-merryfield/

## About the role

At Attain, we are passionate about finding people to continuously help us grow our organization. We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t match every detail of the job description. If we don’t see something that immediately fits, we will keep your resume on file for future opportunities.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of experience building backend services with 2+ of those years in a technical leadership capacity (mentoring junior engineers, scoping technical projects, etc.)
- Experience with Microservice or Service-oriented Architectures
- Experience building within the Node.js ecosystem
- Experience using gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL
- Experience managing AWS environments (GCP is a plus)
- Experience with working with relational databases

Tags: Consumer Technology