Staff Engineer: Platform & AI Architect (Remote)

AnswersNow; United States; Remote; USD 151,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Job summary

AnswersNow is seeking a Staff Engineer to operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise and broad organizational impact. You’ll own architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with product and clinical leadership to translate complex problems into scalable technical solutions.

You’ll oversee the health of our platform—React frontend, Node/Express APIs, Postgres, AWS ECS, ETL and AI pipelines—while enabling the team to move fast with minimal debt. Fully remote role, U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level role.
• Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript in a production full-stack environment.
• Strong command of React, Node.js/Express, and Postgres — you can reason about performance, reliability, and maintainability at each layer.
• Proven experience designing and owning distributed systems or data pipeline architectures on AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda experience valued).
• Track record of technical mentorship — you've made engineers around you measurably better.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; you can write an architecture doc, run a design review, and brief a non-technical executive in the same day.
• Experience working in or leading engineering at a growth-stage startup — you understand the balance between velocity and sustainability.
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines, AI/LLM integration patterns, or data-intensive systems is a strong plus.
• Significant experience architecting and deploying production-grade ML/AI systems, including LLM integration and model lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the architecture of our core platform: React frontend, Node.js/Express APIs, Postgres, and AWS ECS infrastructure.
• Drive our JavaScript to TypeScript migration, establishing patterns, tooling, and standards the team can follow.
• Design and extend our ETL pipeline and config-driven AI integration framework, enabling engineers to ship AI-powered features faster and more reliably.
• Lead technical design reviews, create architecture decision records (ADRs), and ensure engineering decisions are documented and defensible.
• Identify and resolve systemic technical debt—not just flagging it, but owning the plan to address it.
• Define and execute the technical strategy for integrating ML/AI models into our core platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Node.js/Express

PostgreSQL

AWS ECS

ETL pipelines

AI/ML integration

Leadership / mentorship

Software architecture

Tools

Lambda

S3

RDS

Job description

AnswersNow is seeking a Staff Engineer to operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise and broad organizational impact. You’ll own architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with product and clinical leadership to translate complex problems into scalable technical solutions.

You’ll oversee the health of our platform—React frontend, Node/Express APIs, Postgres, AWS ECS, ETL and AI pipelines—while enabling the team to move fast with minimal debt. Fully remote role, U.S.