Senior / Staff Product Engineer

About the Role

This is a senior/staff-level product engineering role at a fast-growing light industrial staffing marketplace, sitting at the intersection of applied AI and core platform engineering. You'll help define how AI agents are wired into production across the full stack — automating the sourcing, vetting, matching, and placement pipeline that powers millions of shifts. This is a high-impact, founding-team-adjacent position with direct influence over the company's technical architecture for years to come.

What You'll Do

• Define and lead how AI agents are applied across the product stack to automate the end-to-end staffing pipeline.

• Architect and build core systems including real-time matching engines, autonomous vetting pipelines, and agent orchestration harnesses.

• Design and own the agentic platform layer — including evals, model strategy, and integration with enterprise operational systems (HRIS, WMS, ERP, TMS).

• Drive backend performance, reliability, and scalability with a multi-quarter roadmap mindset.

• Partner with the CTO on key architectural decisions for the agent platform and broader backend infrastructure.

• Build and maintain frontend interfaces (web and mobile) that surface AI-powered capabilities to non-technical users.

• Set the standard for how the team builds with AI-assisted tooling and agentic patterns.

What We're Looking For

• 5–10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years shipping features and products at early-stage startups with measurable business impact.

• Deep proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js; strong experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models.

• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Kafka, or RabbitMQ in production environments.

• Experience building and shipping agentic or applied AI products from 0 to 1.

• Familiarity with React and React Native for building web and mobile interfaces integrated with backend services.

• Domain experience in at least two of: agentic/applied AI, matching or recommendation systems, marketplaces, multi-sided platforms, recruiting or labor platforms, or non-technical user-facing products.

• Strong CS fundamentals, ideally from a rigorous academic background.

• Comfortable operating in high-velocity, ambiguous, cross-functional early-stage environments.

• Track record of sustained tenure at previous roles — no pattern of frequent short-term positions.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $200,000 – $300,000 USD annually. Equity is available. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site, 5 days per week in New York, NY (Flatiron District). This role is not remote.