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SolidroadSolidroadSan Francisco, CA

Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer leads technical direction, owns critical systems, mentors engineers, and ships customer-facing products at a fast-growing AI startup. Requires 4+ years experience in startups, strong leadership, and expertise in web tech or AI integrations.

250k – 300k/yr
On-site4+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical direction: set architecture, reliability, and performance standards; make trade-offs explicit; keep the bar high.
  • Build & mentor a team: hire great engineers, level them up, and create a high-trust, high-feedback culture.
  • Work directly with customers: translate messy, high-leverage problems into shippable work; measure outcomes.
  • Own critical systems end-to-end.
  • Partner across SF & Dublin: tight loops with product/design/GTM; share context and push decisions over the line.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of engineering experience, ideally at a startup (Series A to C), where you've helped ship complex, customer-facing products.
  • Strong technical leadership, including experience mentoring other engineers, leading technical decisions, or architecting significant product areas.
  • Deep expertise in modern web technologies, product architecture, or AI integrations.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience working on notable or challenging projects.

Skills

JavaScriptReactNode.jsPythonAi IntegrationsFull-Stack DevelopmentProduct ArchitectureKubernetesDockerAWS
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