Staff Software Engineer

The role

Scope of the role:

• Architect the core intelligence behind Scout
• Own the end to end architecture of our sourcing engine from data ingestion, ranking, personalization, and model orchestration.
• Define scalable frameworks for retrieval, reranking, and LLM driven evaluation to ensure we deliver highly personalized and high quality results.
• Create architectural patterns that integrate Scout seamlessly with our existing products to power repeatable sourcing workflows.

Lead agentic experimentation and evaluation

• Drive technical discovery for emerging technologies (e.g. memory systems, schema, prompt libraries, embedding models, and agentic frameworks).
• Improve and extend our evaluation pipelines to test new models and determine lifts in specific parts of our product.
• Build systems that allow fast iteration without compromising quality or reliability. Our priorities are reliability, performance, cost, and then developer productivity.

Shape AI native product experiences

• Partner with product and design to define patterns that make LLM powered sourcing intuitive and fast.
• Translate ambiguous product goals into scalable technical designs that unblock new workflows for our users.
• Establish best practices for building AI-first UX patterns (agentic flows, async interactions, structured outputs).

Provide architectural leadership across engineering

• Mentor and guide engineers on the team raising the bar for system design, documentation, and technical decision making.
• Drive clarity in cross team architecture with Flow, Data, and Infra ensuring Sourcing evolves as a cohesive, maintainable system.
• Set long term technical direction for how we build AI powered sourcing systems.

Background we’re looking for

• 7-8+ YoE building distributed systems or large scale backend architecture.
• Designed and scaled search, recommendation, or ranking systems that balance precision, recall, and performance.
• Led or heavily contributed to ML or LLM integrations in production.
• A track record of technical leadership mentoring others, introducing frameworks, 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

Our stack

The Process

• Recruiter Screening: 20 mins
• Technical Screening (Debugging): 45 mins
• Technical Screening (System Design): 45 mins
• Jam Session: 2 hours
• Behavioral interviews with our Head of Engineering and CEO: 30 mins each
• References

Benefits

• 🩺 Top of the line health, dental and vision insurance, with 100% premium covered
• 📈 401k matching
• 🍜 Free lunch in office
• 🍣 Monthly team dinner (we have a lot of foodies) for each office
• 🚂 Commuter benefits