Staff Software Engineer - Modeling Platform

CaptivateIQ; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Flexible time off

Annual stipends

Work anniversary bonuses

401(k) retirement plan

Apple hardware

Job summary

CaptivateIQ is seeking an experienced engineering leader to own the Modeling Platform framework and SDK surface, collaborating with the SmartGrid team on the computation engine. You will shape multi-year strategy, guide API/SDK design, and drive cross-team alignment while remaining hands-on across backend and frontend components.

You will mentor engineers toward senior impact, establish architectural standards, and help scale a self-service platform as CaptivateIQ expands its AI-native

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering with progression into staff-level leadership.
• Strong Python fundamentals and production experience in Django or similar frameworks.
• Experience owning a platform or framework used by multiple teams.
• Proven ability to set multi-year technical strategy for a platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the modeling platform's framework and SDK layer.
• Evolve the platform framework, SDK, and interfaces for self-service use.
• Make platform-level tradeoffs between framework and product responsibilities.
• Operate with high ownership, drive decisions, and align stakeholders.
• Set multi-year technical strategy with leadership for the modeling platform.
• Drive alignment across teams to support the platform roadmap.
• Remain hands-on as backend-primary fullstack engineer across APIs, SDKs, and frontend.
• Grow engineers: mentoring, coaching, and setting performance standards.

Skills

8+ years experience

Python fundamentals

Django/web frameworks

Platform ownership

Staff-level leadership

Mentoring engineers

Technical roadmap

Backend engineering

Tools

Django

Job description

CaptivateIQ is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance. We started by revolutionizing incentive compensation management, and now we're expanding our platform to solve broader sales planning challenges. Recognized by industry analysts like Forrester and G2 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia, ICONIQ, Accel, and Sapphire Ventures, we empower high-growth companies like Netflix, Figma, and Stripe with the flexibility and insights needed to drive revenue performance.

About the Role

The Modeling Platform team is the backbone of every product in CaptivateIQ's modeling suite and sits at the core of CaptivateIQ's multi-year product strategy. This team is a force multiplier - the components, interfaces, and infrastructure it builds are what let every product engineering team ship modeling experiences fast, without re-solving foundational problems each time.

The team's surface area spans service-layer APIs, a modeling SDK, and extensible frontend components - and our goal is to evolve this into a self-service framework: simple enough to ship new modeling products at a fraction of today's build time, reliable enough that product teams don't think about the plumbing, and opinionated enough that they aren't re-solving the same problems every iteration. We're also building this as an AI-native platform, with first-class access and support for AI agents to build alongside human engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the modeling platform's framework and SDK layer, partnering closely with the SmartGrid team on the underlying computation engine
• Own and evolve the platform's framework, SDK, and interfaces - including agentic/tool-based interfaces for AI consumers - turning today's API surface into a self-service framework with the extensibility points that let internal teams build modeling products fast
• Make the platform-level tradeoffs that shape it: what belongs in the framework vs. a product team's responsibility, build vs. buy, refactor vs. patch, flexibility vs. opinionated speed
• Operate with high ownership and autonomy - drive ambiguous or contested decisions forward by pulling in the right stakeholders early rather than letting them stall, and own the outcomes months later, good or bad
• Set the multi-year technical strategy for the modeling platform, in partnership with your EM, PM, Design, and senior EPD leadership
• Drive technical alignment across teams - build the credibility and relationships that align consuming product teams around the platform's roadmap
• Stay hands-on as a backend-primary fullstack engineer - the platform spans backend APIs, SDKs, and the frontend components product teams extend and build modeling experiences on top of
• Grow and develop engineers on the team - coach toward senior and staff-level impact, set the technical bar through design leadership and review standards, and provide architectural guidance that scales beyond your own output

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with progression into staff-level technical leadership
• Strong Python fundamentals with production experience in Django or similar Python web frameworks
• Demonstrated experience owning a platform or framework layer - not just a service - that multiple internal teams built on top of
• Strong backend engineering foundation with hands-on experience building frontend components that other engineering teams consume, extend, and build on top of
• Track record of setting multi-year technical strategy for a platform or major system, with evidence of the strategy shipping and delivering impact
• Track record of growing engineers to the next level - mentoring, coaching, and leading their technical development toward senior and staff-level impact

Bonus

• Familiarity with Go, for collaboration with the SmartGrid computation engine team
• Experience designing interfaces for AI agent consumption - tool-use schemas, MCP-style protocols, structured function-calling interfaces
• Familiarity with columnar data formats (Apache Arrow, Parquet) and OLAP storage engines (ClickHouse, DuckDB, or similar)
• Working knowledge of DAG-based or dependency-graph-driven computation systems
• Experience designing SDKs or self-service developer platforms consumed by multiple internal teams
• Experience at a B2B SaaS company during periods of significant growth or platform expansion
• Familiarity with sales performance management, incentive compensation, or adjacent enterprise domains
• Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs, with roughly 75% coverage for dependents.
• Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days to ensure you have the space to recharge.
• Annual Stipends: Dedicated funds for your professional development and caretaking needs.
• Work Anniversary Bonuses: Annual bonuses to celebrate your milestones and contributions to the CaptivateIQ team that grow as your tenure does.
• Retirement Savings (US-Only): A 401(k) plan to help you invest in and secure your future.
• Premium Tools: The latest Apple hardware to empower you to do your best work.
• Inclusive Community: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that celebrate shared identities and support our DEI goals by fostering an environment where diverse talent thrives.