Senior/Staff Software Engineer

<strong>Join a high-growth profitable AI startup transforming a deeply broken system with agentic driven software, building products that directly impact the lives and careers of top global talent.<br><br></strong>This Jobot Job is hosted by: Brandon Bays<br><br>Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Apply Now" button and sending us your resume.<br><br>Salary: $185,000 - $250,000 per year<br><br><strong>A bit about us:<br><br></strong>We're partnering with a fast growing, engineering led startup building AI powered systems to modernize a complex legacy industry that has historically relied on manual workflows and outdated tooling. In under a year, the company has reached approximately $10M ARR, is already profitable, and is on track to scale to ~$50M ARR in 2026. Their platform is already trusted by top tier startups and technical teams across AI, infrastructure, and developer tooling, helping streamline high stakes and operationally complex processes.<br><br>The product sits at the intersection of AI, automation, and real world impact, using LLMs and agentic systems to replace hours or weeks of manual work with intelligent, scalable software. This is a rare opportunity to join early at a company with strong product market fit, real revenue, and meaningful mission driven outcomes.<br><br>We are looking for candidates open to working 3-4 days/week in San Francisco or New York City offices for local collaboration given our stage!<br><br><strong>Why join us?<br><br></strong><ul><li> 401k with 3% company match </li><li> Medical, dental and vision benefits </li><li> Annual team offsites in cool places </li><li> High impact, mission driven work</li><li> You'll be building systems that directly affect people's lives and unlock opportunity for top global talent</li><li> Proven traction and real scale ($10M ARR, profitable, and growing rapidly with a clear path to 5x revenue in 2026) </li><li> AI native product from day one</li><li> LLMs and agentic workflows are deeply embedded into the core product</li><li> Engineering led culture</li><li> Small, high caliber team with real ownership over product and technical decisions</li><li> Zero to one through scale challenges</li><li> You'll work on everything from early architecture decisions to scaling systems for significant growth</li><li> Already integrated into workflows of leading AI and technology companies</li><li> Rapid iteration, frequent shipping, and direct user feedback loops<br><br></li></ul><strong>Job Details<br><br></strong>We're hiring Senior or Staff Software Engineers, Backend or Full Stack, to help design, build, and scale the core systems powering this platform. These are highly cross functional roles where you'll work across product, infrastructure, and AI driven systems to solve complex, real world problems.<br><br>What You'll Work On<br><br><ul><li> Building agentic systems that automate complex, multi step workflows end to end</li><li> Designing scalable backend systems, APIs, and event driven architectures</li><li> Developing AI powered features using LLMs in production environments</li><li> Improving system performance, reliability, and data models as the product scales</li><li> Building clean, intuitive user facing and internal tools</li><li> Designing integrations with external platforms and services</li><li> Evolving system architecture to support rapid growth and increasing complexity<br><br></li></ul>What We're Looking For<br><br><ul><li> 5+ years of experience building and shipping production systems</li><li> Strong backend fundamentals, Python preferred for backend focused engineers</li><li> Full stack experience across modern web frameworks is a plus and flexible on stack</li><li> Experience with distributed systems, async processing, or event driven architectures</li><li> Interest or experience in building AI native or LLM powered products</li><li> Strong product instincts and attention to detail</li><li> High ownership mindset and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast moving environments<br><br></li></ul>Interested in hearing more? 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