Staff Software Engineer, Product — AI-Driven GovTech

Holly; New York (NY); On-site; USD 202,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Worky in New York City is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Product to define technical direction for the product Holly. You will own architecture spanning data models, backend, frontend, and AI systems, delivering features used by local governments.

This is a hands-on role on a modern TypeScript stack with React, TanStack Start, Next.js, Postgres, and AI pipelines. You will work with the founders to resolve cross-team architecture decisions, raise the engineering bar, and move fast while

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and shipping production software
• Staff-level scope across a product domain
• Strong full-stack engineer across backend/frontend
• Shipped modern React TanStack/Next.js with performance focus
• Built AI/LLM-powered features in production
• Owned customer-facing systems over time
• Designed data-heavy product surfaces (search/filter)
• Owns delivery from idea to production

Responsibilities

• Own the technical health of major product domains and cross-team decisions
• Lead cross-team decisions and help engineers ship features
• Ship core product end-to-end from idea to production data model, backend, frontend
• Design pipelines to ingest, validate, and normalize government data
• Build AI-powered features including retrieval, tool-calling, and agentic workflows
• Raise engineering standards with code reviews, reliability, and CI/CD

Skills

Full-stack engineering

TypeScript/React

AI/LLM features

PostgreSQL/Data modeling

Architecture & systems design

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

TanStack Start/Query

Next.js App Router

Pulumi

Vercel AI SDK

VoltAgent

Drizzle ORM

Job description

Worky in New York City is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Product to define technical direction for the product Holly. You will own architecture spanning data models, backend, frontend, and AI systems, delivering features used by local governments.

This is a hands-on role on a modern TypeScript stack with React, TanStack Start, Next.js, Postgres, and AI pipelines. You will work with the founders to resolve cross-team architecture decisions, raise the engineering bar, and move fast while