Drive Strategy: Balance short-term delivery pressure against long-term technical health, knowing exactly when to push back on requirements that create unsustainable technical cost.
Connect the Dots: Translate complex business goals into technical implementations for leadership and represent the engineering perspective in cross-functional planning.
Own the Outcome: You are responsible for work that is visibly connected to customer satisfaction and revenue outcomes.
Set the Bar: Establish the technical quality bar for the team and write code that serves as the gold-standard reference implementation for others.
System Design: Architect multi-component systems across the team's domain, producing technical design documents reviewed by the broader organization.
Modernize: Identify systemic quality issues like tech debt hotspots or test coverage gaps, and build the roadmaps for necessary migrations and remediation.
Tooling: Onboard new patterns and languages as business needs evolve, ensuring we make correct long-term technology choices
Lead Workstreams: Drive the delivery of entire projects across multiple engineers, managing cross-team dependencies and owning technical roadmaps tied to product milestones.
Quality Ownership: Own the end-to-end product surface, including correctness, reliability, latency, and user experience.

You’re a Seasoned Builder: You have a track record of building complex systems from scratch and can articulate your specific impact.
Problem Solver: You don't wait for the perfect Jira ticket; you figure out what needs to happen to move the needle and you do it.
AI-Native Mindset: You already use AI tools to maximize your own workload and are eager to help others do the same.

The AI Playground: Get hands-on with OpenAI, Langfuse, and Vertex AI to ship production features that impact real lives.
No Legacy Debt: You’ll be writing new code on a modern Node/TS/GCP stack.
High Agency: You have a direct seat at the table to influence both the product roadmap and the company's technical direction.
Significant Equity: Join early and take a meaningful stake in the future we are building.

Staff Software Engineer

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