Staff Engineer - AI-Native Platform, End-to-End Impact

Altana AI; Brooklyn (AL); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Parental Leave

Health Benefits

401(k) Savings

Job summary

Altana is a network for trusted trade. We are building an AI-powered product platform that scales with a diverse customer base and data. As a Staff Engineer, you will lead a small team, embed with product and design, and ship outcomes that customers actually adopt.

You will spend real time with customers, collaborate with product to decide what to build, and drive new surfaces from 0 to 1. The role emphasizes AI-first design, maintainability, and measurable impact on customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• You have deployed production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
• You have demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production.
• Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems.
• You care deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Spend real time with customers. Sit alongside them in their workflows, watch where they get stuck, and translate what you learn into product bets your team is willing to ship behind.
• Partner with the product team to decide what to build, not just how. Form hypotheses about customer value, design the smallest experiment that could prove them out, and learn fast.
• Take new product surfaces from 0 to 1. Pitch, prototype, ship, and drive adoption with real users.
• Build AI-native by default. LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, and modern AI tooling are first-class building blocks in your stack.
• Own end-to-end outcomes from the first customer conversation to telemetry on the dashboard six months later.
• Set the technical bar for your team with high standards for quality and customer impact.
• Mentor engineers in customer-centric, hypothesis-driven product development.
• Drive technical decision-making with a bias toward shipping.

Job description

Altana is a network for trusted trade. We are building an AI-powered product platform that scales with a diverse customer base and data. As a Staff Engineer, you will lead a small team, embed with product and design, and ship outcomes that customers actually adopt.

You will spend real time with customers, collaborate with product to decide what to build, and drive new surfaces from 0 to 1. The role emphasizes AI-first design, maintainability, and measurable impact on customer outcomes.