Senior Software Engineer, Product

CTGT; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in a venture-backed company

Competitive base compensation

Autonomous work environment

Job summary

CTGT in San Francisco seeks a skilled professional to design and build product interfaces for its governance platform. You will own the full stack behind these interfaces, ensuring a reliable and intuitive user experience. Ideal candidates have experience with both frontend and backend systems and are comfortable with modern frameworks. The role offers competitive compensation and significant equity in a venture-backed setting, promoting autonomy and trust in decision-making.

Qualifications

• Built and owned full stack systems that users rely on.
• Strong on both frontend and backend system design and building.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks and their inner workings.

Responsibilities

• Build product interfaces for clear control over complex AI systems.
• Ensure consistency, correctness, and performance across user experience.
• Design and implement APIs and services that support product surfaces.

Skills

Full stack systems ownership

Frontend and backend design

Experience with modern frontend frameworks

System coherence under complexity

Responsibility for user experience

Job description

About the Role

CTGT is building the control plane for frontier intelligence. Your job is to make that layer clear, reliable, and intuitive. You will design and build the product interfaces through which customers interact with the Policy Engine and our governance platform. This role sits at the boundary between product experience and system behavior. The quality of that boundary determines whether users trust the system or fight it.

What You Will Do

• Build product interfaces that give users clear control over complex AI systems
• Own the full stack behind those interfaces, from interaction through to backend behavior
• Design and implement APIs and services that support clean, predictable product surfaces
• Develop reusable components and patterns that scale across the platform
• Ensure consistency, correctness, and performance across the entire user experience

Who You Are

• You have built and owned full stack systems that users rely on
• You are strong on both frontend and backend system design and building
• You think in terms of product surfaces and system behavior, not just components or endpoints
• You have experience with modern frontend frameworks and understand how they work under the hood
• You design systems that stay coherent as complexity grows
• You take responsibility for the end‑to‑end user experience

Compensation & Equity

Competitive base compensation, plus significant equity in a venture‑backed company with institutional investors including Google’s Gradient Ventures, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator. We want people who think and act like owners.

Real Impact

You will work directly on the core systems that determine how models perform in the wild. Your work ships into real, high‑stakes environments where governance, auditability, and performance are non‑negotiable.

Autonomy & Trust

We operate with a high degree of trust. You are expected to form strong technical opinions and execute on them.