Staff Software Engineer

Glade; Menlo Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Gym, yoga studio, and dog park

Comprehensive healthcare

Lunch and snacks provided

Regular team outings

Job summary

Glade in Menlo Park, CA, is seeking a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to lead and mentor a growing product engineering team. This role involves shaping the architecture and culture of a rapidly scaling company that leverages AI for smarter operations in various industries.

The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience, strong leadership skills, and a thorough understanding of technologies like TypeScript, React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. A competitive salary and significant equity grants are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of engineering principles and best practices.
• Experience building production systems for scalability.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of major product changes.
• Partner with teams to understand customer needs.
• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to the team.

Skills

Leadership

TypeScript

React

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Job description

Location: Menlo Park, CA (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity grants

About Glade.ai

Glade.ai is building the next generation of AI-driven automation to help service businesses operate smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Our platform automates workflows, streamlines processes, and enables teams to scale without friction — empowering industries like legal, insurance, and professional services to focus on what matters most: delivering value to their clients.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical leader and mentor for our growing product engineering team. This is a rare opportunity to shape the architecture, engineering culture, and product direction of a rapidly scaling company from the ground up.

You’ll lead a team of software engineers, driving innovation and ensuring the team delivers high-impact, scalable, and elegant solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to understand customer needs and design the right solutions for them.
• Lead the design and implementation of major product and platform changes across Glade’s software stack.
• Continually raise the bar for the engineering organization by providing technical oversight and mentorship, building tooling, and improving engineering processes.
• Operate fluently across the full product lifecycle from design and implementation to production.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in leadership or staff/principal roles.
• Have a strong understanding of engineering principles, industry best practices, and emerging technologies with our technology stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL.
• Have meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and to handle increasing scale.
• Have built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using inference providers like OpenAI.
• Care deeply about the end user experience and take pride in building products to solve customer needs.
• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.

How to stand out in this interview application process

Put yourself in our shoes. We get over 300+ applicants / week. We want to spend time with the right candidates. During your interview process you will meet at least 3 other engineers and managers within Glade. So putting your best foot forward by building a project related to Glade—a feature, workflow, prototype, or application that shows Glade solving a real legal workflow—is the fastest way to being the right candidate.

You are the right candidate if you:

• Solve a real or plausible problem for law firms, legal teams, or their clients.
• Demonstrate strong product judgment. We want to understand why you built what you built, the tradeoffs you considered, and how you decided what was worth prioritizing.
• Show thoughtful engineering. We care about architecture, state management, data modeling, edge cases, and how your solution could evolve as part of a production product.
• Present your work professionally. Please host it, share a repository, or provide a deployed link so we can evaluate not only the functionality, but also how you package, communicate, and ship your work.

You are welcome to use AI tools throughout the process—in fact, we expect great engineers to leverage them effectively. However, the final result should not feel like a generic AI-generated demo. It should reflect your taste, judgment, and ability to turn an ambiguous problem into a useful product.

Why Join Us

• High Impact: Your decisions will shape the future of Glade’s platform and product direction.
• Significant Equity: meaningful equity grants that would value your contributions to the glade.ai platform.
• Fast-Moving Culture: Work with a small, talented team solving real, high-value problems.
• Mission-Driven: Help redefine how service businesses operate with the power of AI.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity grants
• High-energy in-person culture with an office built for focus, fitness, and fun — gym, yoga studio, dog park, free EV charging, and regular in-office events included
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Lunch, snacks, and team outings
• Latest tech & AI tokens covered