Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven B2B Platform + Equity (Remote)

RealWork Labs; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Health benefits

Team events

Hybrid/Remote flexibility

Flexible PTO

401(k)

Job summary

RealWork Labs Inc. in Austin, TX, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead feature-level work on a MERN stack with TypeScript, React, NodeJS and AWS. You’ll drive scoping, delivery, and architecture for B2B solutions, collaborating with PMs, designers and principal engineers. 8+ years startup experience and DX focus are preferred.

The role offers hybrid/remote flexibility, competitive compensation with bonus and equity, and a focus on AI-assisted engineering and scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is preferred.
• 8+ years experience building products in a startup environment.
• Strong coding experience with TypeScript, React, NodeJS and MongoDB.
• Experience with AWS and enterprise software design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability to work directly with stakeholders to define and refine technical requirements from a set of business goals or behavioral requirements.
• Ability to turn technical requirements into an iterative development plan with clear goals and timelines and then lead a small team to successful, on-time delivery.
• Demonstrate a mindset of operational excellence and full SDLC ownership - you’ll be responsible for ensuring not just feature delivery but a clear migration/rollout path, observability tooling, metrics capture and monitoring and ownership of a successful launch after dev completion.
• Attention to DX - track record of increasing team velocity, removing development bottlenecks and automating processes to ensure top-tier delivery
• Conversational fluency in AWS best practices, enterprise software design patterns, and event‑driven architecture
• Strong coding experience required - you’ll be hands on with the product. Professional experience building products with TypeScript, React, NodeJS and MongoDB is preferred.
• Practical application of AI developer tools in daily engineering tasks.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

MongoDB

AWS

Leadership

Observability

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

MongoDB

Job description

RealWork Labs Inc. in Austin, TX, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead feature-level work on a MERN stack with TypeScript, React, NodeJS and AWS. You’ll drive scoping, delivery, and architecture for B2B solutions, collaborating with PMs, designers and principal engineers. 8+ years startup experience and DX focus are preferred.

The role offers hybrid/remote flexibility, competitive compensation with bonus and equity, and a focus on AI-assisted engineering and scalable systems.