# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Recognition Platform at Metropolis

- Company: Metropolis
- What the company does: Metropolis transforms the parking experience with a computer vision platform that enables checkout-free payment.
- Company website: https://www.metropolis.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $231K to $268K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/metropolis/jobs/7931194003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/metropolis-senior-staff-software-engineer-recognition-platform-2/

## About the role

Metropolis is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Recognition Platform to serve as the technical owner of the Metropolis Recognition Platform (MRP). You are the engineer other engineers route their hardest architectural questions to, holding the entire platform architecture in your head and navigating cross-functional boundaries across application engineering, computer vision, data, security, and platform teams as well as external partners.

## What they're looking for

- 12+ years of experience building and operating distributed, data-intensive production systems, including deep experience as a multi-service platform technical owner
- Proven track record of cross-functional technical leadership and aligning independent engineering teams on shared architecture
- Expert proficiency in a JVM language such as Java or Scala, alongside fluency in event-driven and service-oriented design using gRPC/protobuf, streaming, and relational data modeling
- Hands-on experience designing high-throughput ingestion pipelines with deep understanding of delivery semantics, idempotency, ordering, backpressure, and tail latency
- Experience building rules, eligibility, or decisioning systems where deterministic logic coexists with probabilistic or model-driven signals
- Strong systems judgment integrating third-party APIs, SDKs, and vendor constraints

Tags: Application Development