Staff Software Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to lead our product engineering team. This role involves shaping the architecture, engineering culture, and product direction of a rapidly scaling company.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to understand customer needs and design the right solutions for them.
• Lead the design and implementation of major product and platform changes across Glade’s software stack.
• Continually raise the bar for the engineering organization by providing technical oversight and mentorship, building tooling, and improving engineering processes.
• Operate fluently across the full product lifecycle from design and implementation to production.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in leadership or staff/principal roles.
• A strong understanding of engineering principles, industry best practices, and emerging technologies with our technology stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL.
• Meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and to handle increasing scale.
• Built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using inference providers like OpenAI.
• Care deeply about the end user experience and take pride in building products to solve customer needs.
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.

Qualifications

• Solve a real or plausible problem for law firms, legal teams, or their clients.
• Show strong product judgment. Explain why you built what you built, the tradeoffs you considered, and how you decided what was worth prioritizing.
• Show thoughtful engineering. Discuss your approach to architecture, state management, data modeling, edge cases, and how your solution could evolve as part of a production product.
• Present your work professionally. Host it, share a repository, or provide a deployed link so we can evaluate not only the functionality, but also how you package, communicate, and ship your work.

Skills

• Leverage AI tools throughout the process.
• Final result should not feel like a generic AI-generated demo.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity grants.

Pay

• Competitive salary.

Schedule

• Full-Time.