Staff Software Engineer

About the role

A high-impact role with ownership from day one. Competitive compensation and meaningful equity. Direct collaboration with founders and real users. Remote-first flexibility. The opportunity to help build an AI-native product from the ground up.

What You’ll Do

• Lead architecture for major systems spanning AI, data, backend, and frontend.
• Identify and remove the biggest technical risks and bottlenecks.
• Set engineering standards (design, testing, reliability, performance) and make them stick.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across teams.

Why this role

• Set the technical direction for systems that the whole product depends on.
• Solve the hardest cross-cutting problems in an AI-native platform.
• Influence how the entire engineering org builds, without managing people.

What You’ll Get

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
• Direct collaboration with founders and real users.
• Remote-first flexibility.
• The opportunity to help build an AI-native product from the ground up.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, with a record of leading complex, cross-team systems.
• Deep system design expertise and strong hands-on coding ability.
• Demonstrated technical influence beyond your own direct work.
• Sound judgment about trade-offs, scope, and what to build vs. defer.

Bonus if you have

• Experience scaling AI/ML systems or large data platforms.
• Early-stage startup or 0→1 product experience.