Staff Software Engineer: Architect an AI-Driven Platform

JANI-KIN; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jani-King International is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the architecture, coding standards, and technical direction of our franchise accounting platform built with React, .NET, and SQL Server hosted in AWS.

This senior individual contributor role emphasizes delivering high-quality software through well-bounded work units, AI-assisted development, and rigorous code reviews, mentoring peers, and collaborating with product managers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years as the senior-most or lead engineer on a production system with financial or operational consequences.
• Mastery of agent-driven software development in Cursor or a comparable agentic IDE.
• Fluency with a modern issue tracker such as Linear, and habitual use of a frontier AI assistant such as Claude.
• Deep proficiency in C#/.NET, and strong proficiency in TypeScript and React.
• Strong SQL Server skills: schema design, query performance, and data integrity under concurrent load.

Responsibilities

• Own the code review standard across all engineering repositories, and serve as final human reviewer on changes to financial calculation, data migration, and authorization code.
• Design the review pipeline itself: what automated and agentic review checks, and what remains reserved for human judgment.
• Define and document coding conventions, testing expectations, and the team's Definition of Done for both employees and contractors.
• Own the technical architecture of the platform and its satellite applications: service boundaries, data model evolution, and cloud deployment model.
• Lead design for high-consequence workstreams such as historical data migration, payment processing, and CRM/banking integrations.
• Write and review architecture decision records, connecting trade-offs to business impact.
• Provide day-to-day technical direction to contract developers, defining scope and acceptance criteria.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, design review, and structured feedback.
• Partner with product managers and database maintainers on scoping and schema decisions.

Skills

C#/.NET

TypeScript

React

SQL Server

REST APIs

AWS

CI/CD

Datadog

Agent-driven development

Code review

Tools

Cursor

Claude

Linear

Notion

Datadog

GitHub

AWS

Job description

Jani-King International is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the architecture, coding standards, and technical direction of our franchise accounting platform built with React, .NET, and SQL Server hosted in AWS.

This senior individual contributor role emphasizes delivering high-quality software through well-bounded work units, AI-assisted development, and rigorous code reviews, mentoring peers, and collaborating with product managers.