Staff Software Engineer I

About The Role

Build End-to-End Solutions: Design and implement full-stack features across frontend and backend systems, including hands-on development in our React, TypeScript, and Python stacks — and direct contribution to AI-powered capabilities such as agentic workflows, LLM integrations, and MCP-based tooling.

Set Technical Standards: Establish and uphold best practices for code quality, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability, leading by example through reviews and contributions.

Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with product, design, and engineering teams to shape requirements, define APIs, and deliver cohesive user experiences.

Drive Execution: Break down complex initiatives, provide reliable estimates, and help the team deliver work from development through production.

Mentor Engineers: Support the growth of other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and ongoing technical guidance.

About You

• Technical Experience: 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications used by real customers, with active, hands-on coding contributions in the last 2–3 years.
• Fluent with agentic coding tools and workflows, leveraging AI agents to accelerate planning, development, testing, and code review
• Demonstrated ability to lead AI-assisted engineering practices, including delegating tasks to agents, validating results, designing agent-friendly interfaces, and establishing team guardrails and standards.
• Frontend Expertise: Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, along with a solid understanding of TypeScript and frontend architecture.
• Backend Skills & AI Skills: Hands-on experience building APIs and services with Python as a core language, working knowledge of Node.js, and working familiarity with GenAI concepts including prompt engineering, agentic system design, LLM orchestration frameworks, and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead through influence rather than authority, improving systems, reducing technical debt, and guiding architectural decisions.
• Collaboration & Communication: Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, with strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with performance optimization for web applications, including monitoring, profiling, and tuning for scale.
• Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features, including working with LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows in a production environment.
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure including vector databases, model serving, and cost/latency optimization for LLM-powered features.

What's in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Pay

• Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $136,000 USD - $253,000 USD.
• For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $118,400 USD - $219,800 USD.
• For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,600 CAD - $190,600 CAD.
• Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity.
• This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

Schedule

• We offer market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.