Staff Software Engineer — AI-Driven Product Lead

True Talent Solutions Partners; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 202,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

True Talent Solutions Partners is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to shape product direction and build full-stack features for a government HR tech platform. You will own data modeling, API design, and frontend work while delivering AI-powered experiences and mentoring a small engineering pod.

The role emphasizes practical AI integration, scalable architecture, and collaboration across product and engineering during a growth phase in a startup setting. Hybrid working model in San Francisco, CA.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years building software products with staff-level ownership.
• Strong full-stack experience: TS, Node.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Postgres modeling, API design.
• Production AI/LLM features: agents, tool-calling, retrieval-augmented generation.
• Mentor engineers as a player-coach; startup growth experience.
• Clear, proactive communication and questions when needed.
• Experience with TanStack, Next.js, Drizzle, and related tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own features from data modeling and API design through frontend delivery.
• Build AI-powered experiences and LLM integrations for product surfaces.
• Lead a small engineering pod with hands-on contribution and guidance.
• Develop search, filtering, and data normalization across workforce data.
• Improve engineering practices via reviews and architecture decisions.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Tailwind CSS

Postgres data modeling

API design

AI/LLM features

Mentoring engineers

Startup experience

Communication

TanStack

Next.js

Drizzle

Vercel AI SDK

Temporal

Education

Product domain background

Tools

TanStack

Next.js

Drizzle

Vercel AI SDK

VoltAgent

Mastra

Trigger.dev

Temporal

Job description

True Talent Solutions Partners is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to shape product direction and build full-stack features for a government HR tech platform. You will own data modeling, API design, and frontend work while delivering AI-powered experiences and mentoring a small engineering pod.

The role emphasizes practical AI integration, scalable architecture, and collaboration across product and engineering during a growth phase in a startup setting. Hybrid working model in San Francisco, CA.