Staff Software Engineer, Product

The Role

You’ll contribute to:

• Full stack architecture, development, and optimization of features spanning backend, AI/model integration, and frontend interfaces.
• Designing for scale, performance, and security in enterprise environments.
• Debugging across the stack - from model behavior and backend services to UI logic and client performance.
• Collaborating with product, design, and operations to deliver delightful, resilient user experiences.
• Helping evolve the engineering culture, tooling, hiring, and technical roadmap as the team grows.

  About Valence

  We're the only company pioneering leadership coaching for large enterprises in an AI-first way. Our mission is to transform how the world's biggest companies approach learning and development, helping teams work better together through AI-powered personalization that adapts to individual goals and organizational culture using the latest advances in machine learning and natural language processing.

  What You'll Do

  • Build and extend critical backend services: architect APIs, integrate LLMs and related services, and optimize server-side systems for performance and reliability.
  • Develop polished frontend experiences: craft intuitive UI flows, ensure accessibility and responsiveness, and manage data flow between frontend and backend.
  • Own end-to-end delivery: from scoping requirements, writing tests, deploying code, to monitoring and observability in production.
  • Collaborate deeply: work across product, design, data, and infrastructure to solve real user problems and accelerate delivery.
  • Drive best practices: help shape engineering standards, CI/CD automation, observability, and performance benchmarking.
  • Mentor and grow: support team members through code reviews, technical discussions, and institution of scalable practices.

  What We're Looking For

  • Strong full stack experience: you have shipped production-grade systems involving both backend and frontend components, and you’re comfortable owning APIs and user experiences end-to-end.
  • Technical breadth/Engineering skills: deep proficiency with Python (Django preferred) or similar languages for backend; strong JavaScript skills and familiarity with modern frameworks (e.g., React, Vue).
  • Frontend craftsmanship/UX obsessed: experience building responsive, high-performance UI with attention to usability and scale.
  • Enterprise-grade thinking: you build for scale, performance, security, and maintainability in large, distributed environments.
  • Builder at Heart: you’ve architected and shipped production-grade, user-facing systems. You balance polish with speed, knowing when to prioritize craftsmanship and when to push scrappy experiments to learn fast.
  • Versatility and pragmatism: you balance sound architectural decisions with a willingness to prototype and iterate quickly when needed.
  • Customer-Centered & Product-Focused: you care as much about usability, accessibility, and adoption as you do about code quality. You think beyond “does it work” to “does it work for the user, at scale, and in enterprise environments.”
  • Startup fluent: you thrive in ambiguity, value momentum over perfection, and enjoy wearing multiple hats.

  What You'll Get

  • Ownership & Rapid Growth
  • AI-First Operator
  • Top-Performing Culture