Staff Software Engineer, Product

About the Role

Join an early-stage public-sector HR technology team as a hands-on Staff Software Engineer, Product. You will set technical direction and build core product experiences across the data model, backend, frontend, and AI systems, helping public-sector organizations manage their workforce more effectively.

What You'll Do

• Own product features end to end, from data models and APIs through frontend implementation and rollout.

• Build AI-powered experiences, including chat interfaces, LLM tool-calling, and ways to present generated insights to non-technical users.

• Lead a product pod of 2 to 4 engineers, providing technical direction and mentorship while remaining primarily hands-on.

• Create data-rich product experiences for searching, filtering, and normalizing imperfect workforce data.

• Raise engineering quality through code review, architecture decisions, and practical standards that support fast delivery.

What We're Looking For

• 7 to 10 years of experience building and shipping software products, including sustained staff-level ownership of a product domain.

• Frontend-heavy full-stack experience with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, Postgres, and API design, including ownership of UX and UI implementation.

• Experience building production AI or LLM-powered features such as agents, RAG, tool-calling, or streaming.

• Experience mentoring engineers as a player-coach and working at startups through periods of high growth.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to ask questions and thoughtfully challenge technical decisions.

• Experience writing software before AI coding tools existed, and familiarity with modern product development practices.

• Experience with tools such as TanStack, Next.js, Drizzle, Vercel AI SDK, VoltAgent, Trigger.dev, Temporal, or similar technologies is valuable.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary: $202,000 to $262,000. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid, with San Francisco as the primary location. New York City is also a potential work location. San Francisco-based candidates may start remotely before transitioning to an office-based schedule.