Staff Engineer: AI-First Backend & Infra Architect

Zuma; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great health insurance, dental, and vision

Gym and workspace stipends

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

A pioneering AI company in property management seeks a Staff Engineer to shape the technical foundation of its innovative platform. You will lead system rewrites, optimize data storage, and build deployment pipelines within a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in backend development with Node.js and cloud infrastructure. This role provides opportunities to directly impact thousands of apartment communities and millions of renters while working with cutting-edge AI technology.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production-grade software systems.
• Proven expertise in backend development, including API design.
• Experience deploying production systems using Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Lead critical system rewrites for scalable architecture.
• Own design and optimization of data storage systems.
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines.

Skills

Backend development with Node.js

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

Database design and performance tuning

Building CI/CD pipelines

Strong communication

React and TypeScript (bonus)

LLM-based systems experience (bonus)

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

A pioneering AI company in property management seeks a Staff Engineer to shape the technical foundation of its innovative platform. You will lead system rewrites, optimize data storage, and build deployment pipelines within a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in backend development with Node.js and cloud infrastructure. This role provides opportunities to directly impact thousands of apartment communities and millions of renters while working with cutting-edge AI technology.