# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Solidroad](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/solidroad)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $250k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, Ai Integrations, Full-Stack Development, Product Architecture, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-01-14

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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