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Scale AIScale AINew York, NY

Staff Software Engineer

Staff Fullstack Engineer and Architect role leading architectural overhaul of AI data platform infrastructure for LLM integration. Dynamically embed into high-priority projects across Contributor teams (Allocation, Growth, Trust & Safety), own ambiguous problems end-to-end, mentor engineers, and drive scalability across backend, frontend, and ML systems. Requires 7+ years experience as Tech Lead/Architect.

252k – 315k
Hybrid7+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Deploy flexibly into critical, fast-moving product initiatives across the Contributor organization.
  • Lead the architectural overhaul of our platform infrastructure, making it highly sustainable, robust, and optimized for deep integration with LLMs and foundation models.
  • Lead architecture decisions for scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Mentor and uplevel engineers across the team.
  • Partner with product and leadership to shape roadmap and priorities.
  • Own large, ambiguous problem spaces end-to-end.
  • Work across backend, frontend, and ML systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with a proven track record of operating as a Tech Lead, Architect, or Principal Engineer.
  • Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale.
  • Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and SQL.
  • Experience with Kubernetes.
  • Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience tinkering with or productizing LLMs, vector databases, and the other latest AI technologies.

Skills

TypeScriptJavaScriptSQLKubernetesAWSAzureGCPLLMs

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