Staff Engineer

The Role

What You’ll Do

• Architect, build, and maintain core product systems and features.
• Work directly with the founding team to establish engineering best practices and long-term technical direction.
• Build rich, interactive applications with an emphasis on performance and usability.
• Context-switch across the stack — from frontend polish to backend infrastructure.
• Debug and optimize distributed systems supporting complex creative workflows.
• Solve challenging technical problems creatively, innovating where necessary.

Requirements

• Full-Stack Mastery: Comfortable across frontend and backend, from editing CSS to tuning database queries.
• Frontend Expertise: Advanced skills with React, JavaScript/Typescript, HTML, CSS, and modern build systems (Webpack, ES6, etc).
• Backend Strength: Experience with Node.js and Postgres in production environments.
• Systems Knowledge: Proven experience designing, deploying, and debugging distributed systems.
• Product Focus: Deep experience building polished, interactive apps with high attention to design detail.
• Problem-Solver: Strong ability to tackle hard engineering challenges and drive solutions.
• ML Familiarity (Nice-to-Have): Exposure to ML-powered tools with user-friendly interfaces.
• Experience: 8+ years in engineering roles, with proven impact at scale.

Tech Stack

• React, Next.js, Typescript
• Node.js, Postgres for backend
• APIs and Modal infrastructure