Staff Software Engineer, Modeling Platform & AI SDK

Lever, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 181,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Time off & mental health days

Professional development stipend

401(k)

Apple equipment

ERGs and DEI initiatives

Job summary

CaptivateIQ is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction of its modeling platform and SDKs. You will partner with EM, PM, Design, and the SmartGrid team to shape multi-year strategy and enable product teams to build modeling products quickly on a self-service framework with AI-ready capabilities.

You will stay hands-on as a backend-first fullstack engineer, mentor engineers toward senior levels, and drive architectural alignment that scales beyond your own output.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering 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 that multiple internal teams built on top of.
• Strong backend engineering foundation with hands-on experience building frontend components that other engineering teams consume.
• Track record of setting multi-year technical strategy for a platform or major system with measurable impact.
• Track record of growing engineers to the next level through mentoring and coaching.

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.
• 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.
• Operate with high ownership and autonomy — drive ambiguous or contested decisions forward by pulling in the right stakeholders.
• 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 frontend components.
• Grow and develop engineers on the team — coach toward senior and staff-level impact, set the technical bar through design leadership.

Skills

Python

Django

Platform ownership

Backend engineering

Frontend components

Technical leadership

Tools

APIs

SDKs

Frontend components

Job description

CaptivateIQ is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction of its modeling platform and SDKs. You will partner with EM, PM, Design, and the SmartGrid team to shape multi-year strategy and enable product teams to build modeling products quickly on a self-service framework with AI-ready capabilities.

You will stay hands-on as a backend-first fullstack engineer, mentor engineers toward senior levels, and drive architectural alignment that scales beyond your own output.