Staff Software Engineer — Full Stack

Ichi Plan, Inc.; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ichi Plan, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own large end-to-end initiatives, from brainstorming and design through deployment.

You will contribute to a small team, reporting to the CEO, and help scale systems that integrate multiple LLMs while handling complex building-code informed AI workflows. The role requires 8+ years of software experience, full-stack capability, and strong expertise in Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, and AWS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering in tech- and product-driven companies.
• Full-stack experience with willingness to grow across the stack.
• Rails expertise building production-grade applications; you'll guide architectural decisions in our codebase.
• Experience building with AI: AI tooling in your workflow, AI-powered prototypes professionally or personally.
• Strong product intuition — you care about the impact of what you build.
• Thrive in ambiguity, drive initiatives independently; comfortable in a Pacific-time, fully distributed team.
• React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS; CS degree or equivalent foundation

Responsibilities

• Own large projects end to end — from brainstorming and technical design to implementation and release
• Help develop and execute the technology strategy within a small team; you'll report to the CEO
• Scale a system that integrates multiple LLMs while avoiding dependence on any single model
• Process large-format 2D plansets and extract meaning from architectural drawings; build document pipelines for memory-intensive, hundreds-of-pages files
• Encode the intricate rules and jurisdictional nuances of building codes into AI-powered compliance systems
• Work directly with customers, gather feedback, and review code to keep shipped quality high

Skills

8+ years experience

Full-stack

AI experience

Product mindset

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Rails

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Postgres

AWS

Job description

Staff Software Engineer
Full stack · Remote (US)

We're looking for a high-ownership, high-accountability engineer who isn't just here to write code but to deeply care about the outcome of what we build. If you think long-term about what makes a product truly great, read on.

• + Own large projects end to end — from brainstorming and technical design to implementation and release
• + Help develop and execute the technology strategy within a small team; you'll report to the CEO
• + Scale a system that integrates multiple LLMs while avoiding dependence on any single model
• + Process large-format 2D plansets and extract meaning from architectural drawings; build document pipelines for memory-intensive, hundreds-of-pages files
• + Encode the intricate rules and jurisdictional nuances of building codes into AI-powered compliance systems
• + Work directly with customers, gather feedback, and review code to keep shipped quality high

What we're looking for

• + 8+ years of professional engineering in tech- and product-driven companies
• + Full-stack experience, with willingness to learn and grow across the stack
• + Rails expertise building production-grade applications — you'll guide architectural decisions in our codebase
• + Experience building with AI: AI tooling in your workflow, AI-powered prototypes professionally or personally
• + Strong product intuition — you care about the impact of what you build
• + Thrive in ambiguity, drive initiatives independently; comfortable in a Pacific-time, fully distributed team
• + React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS; CS degree or equivalent foundation
• + US-based; periodic travel to work with the team in the SF Bay Area

The problems are unusual: construction documents that break every off-the-shelf AI pipeline, codes that change per city block, and a $11T industry (4.3% of US GDP) where faster, more predictable compliance genuinely changes what gets built. Cities of tomorrow are built with Ichi.