Staff Software Engineer

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New York / $200000 - $230000 annum

INFO

Salary

SALARY:

$200000 - $230000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack (Backend-Focused)

Compensation

  • Base Salary: $180,000-$260,000 USD (U.S.) / $175,000-$230,000 CAD (Canada), depending on location
  • Bonus: 20%
  • Equity: RSUs
  • Work Style: Hybrid (3 days/week)
  • Visa Sponsorship: Available

About the Opportunity

An innovative, publicly traded AI software company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Backend-Focused Full Stack) to help build and scale the core platform powering next-generation document intelligence and search capabilities.

Operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence, large-scale data processing, and enterprise knowledge management, the organization develops sophisticated technology that enables customers to extract, analyze, benchmark, and search highly complex documents with exceptional accuracy and speed.

This is a high-impact individual contributor position where you'll influence architecture, own critical backend systems, and collaborate with AI researchers, product leaders, and domain specialists to build technology that solves technically challenging real-world problems.


Why This Role?

  • Build foundational backend infrastructure supporting AI-powered products
  • Own architecture and technical direction for highly scalable systems
  • Work alongside experts in AI, machine learning, and search technologies
  • Influence engineering strategy without people management responsibilities
  • Join a fast-growing, well-funded public technology company investing heavily in AI

What You'll Do

  • Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs
  • Architect distributed systems supporting large-scale document processing
  • Build high-performance data pipelines and backend infrastructure
  • Create clean, extensible API frameworks
  • Integrate backend systems with internal AI/ML services
  • Optimize performance across data-intensive workloads
  • Contribute to frontend development using React and TypeScript when needed
  • Improve developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and production infrastructure
  • Participate in architecture reviews and uphold engineering best practices

Typical Time Allocation

  • 70% Backend engineering & API development
  • 20% System architecture & performance optimization
  • 10% Frontend development & developer experience improvements

First-Year Priorities

  • Scale core backend infrastructure
  • Expand APIs supporting AI-driven product capabilities
  • Improve reliability and performance of data-intensive services
  • Enhance integrations with machine learning pipelines
  • Increase developer productivity through tooling and automation
  • Deliver new customer-facing platform capabilities

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, you will have:

  • Influenced long-term platform architecture
  • Built reliable backend systems operating at scale
  • Accelerated delivery of AI-powered product features
  • Improved application performance and engineering efficiency
  • Become a trusted technical leader across engineering teams

Ideal Background

  • 7-10+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong backend-focused full-stack expertise
  • Experience designing scalable APIs and distributed systems
  • Background building data-intensive or AI-enabled platforms
  • Product company experience strongly preferred

Required Skills

  • Node.js, Python, or Go
  • REST API design
  • System architecture
  • SQL & NoSQL databases
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Excellent communication and ownership mindset

Preferred Experience

  • Microservices architecture
  • Event-driven systems
  • Message queues
  • CI/CD automation
  • Large-scale data processing
  • Performance optimization
  • Single-tenant architectures
  • Modern developer tooling (monorepos, profiling, build tooling)
  • Exposure to AI, search, analytics, or knowledge management platforms

Resume Highlights We'd Love to See

  • Ownership of large-scale backend platforms
  • Strong API and distributed systems design experience
  • Demonstrated impact building data-heavy or AI-enabled products
  • Evidence of technical leadership through architecture and delivery

Ideal Candidate Traits

  • Thrives in fast-paced product environments
  • Strong ownership mentality
  • Excellent systems thinking
  • Comfortable collaborating across engineering, AI, and product teams
  • Pragmatic problem solver focused on delivering scalable solutions

Candidates Less Likely to Be a Fit

  • Primarily frontend/UI-focused engineers
  • Limited backend architecture experience
  • Minimal experience building scalable distributed systems
  • Preference for narrowly defined responsibilities over broad technical ownership

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Tim Greenwald

Senior Recruitment Consultant

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