Staff Software Engineer — Lead Large-Scale Systems

merge; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Pre-Tax commuter

Health insurance

Vision and dental insurance

401K plan

Home office stipend

In-office snacks and dinner

Job summary

Merge is a leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs and B2B SaaS. We seek an experienced software leader to drive roadmaps, architecture decisions, and deliver production-grade code.

You will guide major projects end-to-end and mentor peers across engineering, design, and product teams. The ideal candidate has 7–10+ years of software engineering experience, deep framework knowledge, and strong SQL/Postgres expertise.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of full-time software engineering experience.
• Experience with frameworks (Django, Rails, Spring, etc.).
• Extensive knowledge of SQL databases (Postgres preferred).

Responsibilities

• Drive roadmapping and architecture discussions.
• Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code.
• Lead Merge's most impactful projects from inception to production.
• Unblock and support your team of peers including engineers, designers, product managers, and business operators.

Skills

Software engineering

Roadmapping

Code quality

Team leadership

Tools

Django

Rails

Spring

PostgreSQL

Job description

Merge is a leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs and B2B SaaS. We seek an experienced software leader to drive roadmaps, architecture decisions, and deliver production-grade code.

You will guide major projects end-to-end and mentor peers across engineering, design, and product teams. The ideal candidate has 7–10+ years of software engineering experience, deep framework knowledge, and strong SQL/Postgres expertise.