Staff Software Engineer, AI Email Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required - Work From Home - M

Next Step Systems; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 147.000 - 181.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

Savings plan

PTO

Zusammenfassung

Next Step Systems is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for AI Email Applications. This fully remote role owns architecture across backend services and client apps, leading a small team of senior engineers.

You will shape the system for reliability and scale while delivering robust AI-powered product experiences. The position requires hands-on leadership, strong architectural judgment, and a demonstrated ability to ship high-quality software that integrates AI/ML capabilities with modern tooling.

Qualifikationen

• AI experience required.
• Significant leadership experience in complex systems.
• Hands-on background building and shipping backend systems.
• Experience building AI-powered products integrated with ML/LLM capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment and architectural decision-making.

Aufgaben

• Own engineering strategy across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Design reliable AI-powered workflows with architecture for state, retries, and fallbacks.
• Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to product experiences.
• Lead a small senior team through design and code reviews, mentoring.
• Balance latency, cost, reliability, and user experience in trade-offs.
• Establish observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence.

Kenntnisse

AI experience

Leadership

Backend development

AI-powered products/ML/LLM

Code quality

Cross-platform expertise

Ownership & shipping

Observability & reliability

Jobbeschreibung

Staff Software Engineer, AI Email Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required - Work From Home

As the Staff Software Engineer, AI Email Applications, you own the engineering layer that turns AI capability into a reliable product. You will shape the architecture across backend services, APIs, and client applications, while leading a small team of senior engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role. You stay close to the code, make critical architectural decisions, and ensure the system remains fast, reliable, and coherent as it scales. ++This position is 100% Remote.++

++MUST BE WILLING TO TAKE A 60 MINUTE CODING ASSESSMENT.++

Staff Software Engineer Responsibilities:

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.

• Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including state, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.

• Build the APIs and abstractions that connect Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to real-world product experiences.

• Lead a small, senior engineering team and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship.

• Make high-impact trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.

• Establish strong production foundations: observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence.

• Partner closely with Machine Learning (ML) leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences.

• Move quickly while keeping the architecture simple, maintainable, and ready to scale.

Staff Software Engineer Outcomes:

• Production systems are observable, monitored, and stable under real-world load.

• Decisions consistently balance speed, cost, reliability, and user experience.

• Features across backend, mobile, and desktop work smoothly and reliably.

• Latency and reliability improve measurably over time.

Staff Software Engineer Qualifications:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required.

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.

• Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.

• Experience building AI-powered products or systems that integrate with modern Machine Learning (ML)/Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities.

• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information.

• Comfortable working across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one.

• A strong bias toward ownership, shipping, and learning from real-world usage.

• High standards for code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.

Benefits include medical insurance, Dental, Vision, Savings Plan Options, PTO, etc.

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