Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer builds and scales full-stack product experiences and backend infrastructure for AI-powered social commerce platform, processing large social data volumes and delivering AI-driven insights for brands. Involves technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural decisions in a fast-growing startup.
About the job
What You'll Be Doing
Backend & Data Infrastructure
- Design and build backend systems that ingest and process large volumes of social data from platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, and LinkedIn
- Develop resilient integrations with third-party APIs and optimize the infrastructure that powers our AI workloads
- Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across our backend and data pipelines as the platform scales
- Establish operational best practices including monitoring, incident response, and on-call culture
Product & Frontend
- Build AI-powered product experiences such as conversation inboxes, AI-suggested replies, and summarization of social conversations into actionable insights
- Improve shared components, design systems, and frontend architecture to enable faster and higher-quality product development
- Optimize performance and reliability across the application as it scales to support thousands of daily users
- Collaborate closely with product and design teams to deliver intuitive workflows for brand and marketing teams
Technical Leadership
- Write architecture documents and guide infrastructure, tooling, and frontend decisions across the engineering team
- Review technical designs and code from other engineers - providing feedback that raises the quality bar across the team
- Mentor engineers and contribute to building strong engineering culture and development practices
What We're Looking For
- Strong engineering experience designing, building, and operating production systems — backend, frontend, or full-stack
- Deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, and scalable architecture
- Experience building reliable data pipelines on top of external APIs, or building complex, data-rich web applications using React
- Strong user empathy and product intuition when designing and building features
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping engineering culture
- Curiosity about how AI is changing software development and interest in AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and end-to-end responsibility
Bonus Points
- Experience working with high-scale data pipelines or real-time data processing systems
- Experience building AI-powered user interfaces or LLM-integrated product features
- Experience building analytics dashboards or data-heavy interfaces
- Experience integrating AI or machine learning systems into production environments
- Previous experience working at an early-stage or rapidly scaling startup
Skills
TypeScript, React, AWS, Postgres, ClickHouse, Pulumi, Shadcn, Zustand, Turbopuffer, Distributed Systems
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