Staff Software Engineer

About the role

The role involves architecting the core intelligence behind Scout, owning the end-to-end architecture of the sourcing engine, and driving technical discovery for emerging technologies. Key responsibilities include:

• Define scalable frameworks for retrieval, reranking, and LLM-driven evaluation.
• Create architectural patterns that integrate Scout seamlessly with existing products.
• Lead agentic experimentation and evaluation.
• Improve and extend evaluation pipelines to test new models.
• Build systems that allow fast iteration without compromising quality or reliability.
• Shape AI-native product experiences.
• Translate ambiguous product goals into scalable technical designs.
• Establish best practices for building AI-first UX patterns.
• Provide architectural leadership across engineering.
• Mentor and guide engineers on the team.
• Drive clarity in cross-team architecture with Flow, Data, and Infra.
• Set long-term technical direction for AI-powered sourcing systems.

Requirements

We are looking for candidates with 7-8 years of experience building distributed systems or large-scale backend architecture. Key requirements include:

• Experience designing and scaling search, recommendation, or ranking systems.
• Leadership in ML or LLM integrations in production.
• A track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing technical direction.
• Strong experience with data-intensive systems, asynchronous processing, or event-driven architectures.

Pay

$210-280k Salary + Equity depending on the level.

Stack

We use a variety of technologies including:

• Data-intensive systems
• Asynchronous processing
• Event-driven architectures

Benefits

• Top of the line health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premium coverage.
• 401k matching.
• Free lunch in the office.
• Monthly team dinners.
• Commuter benefits.