Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Userc Dehradun; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AI Talent Now in the United States is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to ship production-grade features from day one. You'll work across front-end React, back-end Node/Express, GraphQL, Postgres, and AWS to deliver scalable AI-powered workflow solutions.

This role emphasizes building observable, secure, high-velocity systems, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with product teams to design large-scale architectures.

Qualifications

• 7-25 years of experience as Staff/Senior Software Engineer with full-stack web app development.
• Experience in high-growth tech startups (VC-backed or FAANG) and shipping product as the software itself.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and modern AI product development lifecycles.
• Strong on AWS, Terraform, and distributed systems design.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and deploy AI-enabled systems and scalable job processing infra on AWS.
• Lead and mentor engineers, promote secure, observable, low-toil infrastructure.
• Own end-to-end features from design through deployment, across frontend and backend.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node/Express

GraphQL/Apollo

Postgres

AWS

Terraform

SRE mindset

Security

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Job description

Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Location United States

Job type Full Time

Work mode Remote

This is a remote position.

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you'll continue our team tradition by shipping code to production on your first day! Following that, within your first month, you'll dive into your first mission-critical project, such as...

Architecting, building, and launching complex, multi-step AI agents that our customers use to digitize their ops workflows and save millions of dollars per year.

Integrating with 3rd-party providers of lending services APIs to generate documents/disclosures, produce automated underwriting results, or prevent fraud.

Architecting, building, and launching the next generation of our job processing infrastructure on AWS to make Loancrate's back end more observable and reliable.

Nearly all of our code is written in TypeScript. We use React on the frontend, Node/Express on the backend (running inside Docker), GraphQL/Apollo on both sides, and Postgres as our database. We use AWS (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, Kafka, ElasticSearch, and more) and manage all of our infrastructure with Terraform.

We believe that high engineering velocity drives high product velocity (and, in turn, our success as a company). Keeping this in mind, we've invested heavily in creating a great developer experience that enables engineers to ship fast. Some highlights of our stack:

End-to-End Type Safety - We generate TypeScript types from our Postgres and GraphQL schemas so that when we change our database schema we see type errors in any incompatible frontend React components.

Full-Stack Code Sharing - Our build tooling supports seamless sharing of TypeScript files between the client, server, and other packages in our mono-repo so that we never have to define functions or configuration values twice.

Reproducible Infrastructure - We've used Terraform to manage 100% of our infrastructure since day 1 and have configured our CI pipeline to automatically deploy temporary staging environments for every pull request.

First Class Testing Utilities - We have a comprehensive library of utilities that mock production-like data and feed automated end-to-end, integration, and performance tests. Our wide-ranging test suite allows us to move fast while maintaining nearly perfect uptime.

Preferred Skills and Background

(It's okay not to have all of these things - these are just some skills we are excited about!)

Familiarity with modern AI product development lifecycles (evals, experiment design, dataset curation, etc). We don't just build AI chat bots. We wrangle non-deterministic LLMs into reliable mission-critical systems.

A constant and keen eye for security risks - we store and display some of people's most sensitive personal data and need to keep it safe!

A desire to be product-oriented, from thinking through the product implications of what you're building to contributing your unique ideas of how to improve the product.

Ability to develop readable, maintainable, and effective software architecture patterns that support use of our product by various enterprise customers.

Excitement to mentor less senior engineers in both hard and soft skills.

SRE-oriented mindset for developing infrastructure that's reliable, observable, and requires minimal toil to maintain.

Experience scaling high-throughput distributed systems in the cloud. Bonus points if you're experienced with infrastructure-as-code solutions like Terraform or CloudFormation!

Ability to develop full-stack web app features from design through deployment.

Experience designing and scaling complex relational DB schemas, as well as figuring out performant ways to store, retrieve, and update such data. Home loans have thousands of data fields.

Requirements

Role requirements

Seniority

7 - 25 years of experience as a Staff/Senior Software Engineer with full-stack web app development from design through deployment. Minimum 5 years of being a Senior-level engineer

Worked at a tech company wheresoftware was the product (high-growth tech startups like Ramp, not non-tech industries like retail banking)

Experience inhigh-growth tech startups/companies (VC-backed or FAANG)

Designing and scaling complex relational DB schemas

Strong proficiency in TypeScriptwith clear examples of complex system/products they've built hands-on recently on their resume

Scaling high-throughput distributed systems in the cloud with AWS and Terraform

React on the frontend, Node/Express on the backend (running inside Docker), GraphQL/Apollo on both sides, and Postgres as our database.

Familiarity with modern AI product development lifecycles (evals, experiment design, dataset curation, etc).

SRE-oriented mindset (reliable, observable, low-toil infra)

Senior/Staff Software Engineer · AI Talent Now · United States