Staff Engineer — Tanagram

The role

You will work across the stack including Typescript+React frontend, Python/Go backend, and LLM infrastructure. You will build products to accelerate agentic coding by finding engineering lessons in codebases, reviews, post-mortems, and Slack chats.

What you will do

• Talk directly to users to understand requirements and iterate based on feedback
• Craft delightful product interactions
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to product and foundations
• Collaborate closely with teammates and share learnings openly
• Share and promote your work publicly
• Perform other tasks to move the company forward

Required qualifications

• Experience building 0 to 1 products as a founder or early engineer at a funded startup
• Hands-on experience with the latest AI models
• Strong intuition about model capabilities and behavioral nuances
• Experience prompting models to get the best results
• Data science experience, especially around clustering and anomaly detection
• Clear and thoughtful communication on technical and strategic topics
• Well-crafted, tastefully-design work examples

Nice to have

• Experience working on programming language tooling: compilers/parsers/indexers (e.g. LLVM, tree-sitter, SCIP) or type systems (e.g. Typescript itself or Sorbet)

Benefits

• Challenging work on enterprise-scale codebases and datasets
• Unlimited token usage for development using Amp
• High compensation
• Employee-friendly equity terms (low FMV, early exercise, extended exercise)
• Choice of Macbook Pro + computer/office equipment stipend
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Relatively un-chaotic working environment
• Opportunity to lead and define the company

About the company

Tanagram's mission is to accelerate agentic coding. They build tools that turn engineering lessons from codebases and chats into real-time guardrails.