Staff Engineer
Pubblicato il 06-10-2026 - Lever in Italia
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer – Pricing based in Italy.
This is a high-impact staff-level engineering role focused on building the pricing infrastructure behind a modern energy transaction platform. You’ll own the backend and data-heavy systems responsible for pricing real energy contracts, where correctness directly affects financial outcomes and performance builds customer trust. You’ll shape a new Pricing API from initial architecture through production readiness and eventual third-party access. The role combines backend engineering, numerical systems, data, reliability, and product thinking in a highly consequential domain. You’ll also lead significant architectural decoupling, establish engineering standards, and influence technical direction across teams without relying on formal management authority. The environment is remote-first, collaborative, and focused on using modern AI-assisted engineering workflows to increase team productivity.
Accountabilities:
- Build, evolve, and operate the Pricing API, ensuring it is fast, reliable, accurate, explainable, and ready for third-party consumption.
- Lead the extraction of pricing logic from surrounding systems into a dedicated service, establishing clear and maintainable boundaries with neighboring teams.
- Manage significant architectural migrations and decoupling initiatives while protecting existing functionality and minimizing disruption to dependent systems.
- Own pricing reliability by designing detection, monitoring, and alerting systems that identify incorrect or slow prices before they reach customers.
- Ensure every pricing failure can be understood and explained, creating robust mechanisms for diagnosing why a quote cannot be produced.
- Improve pricing performance and reduce quote latency across the customer experience through architectural and technical optimization.
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