Staff Software Engineer, AI Applications

The role

This person will lead application architecture and engineering across backend, mobile and desktop platforms. They will design systems for AI-powered workflows and lead a small team of senior engineers.

What you will do

• Lead application architecture and engineering across backend, mobile and desktop platforms
• Design systems for AI-powered workflows, including orchestration, state management, retries and failure recovery
• Build and review backend services, APIs and integrations that connect AI systems with product features
• Make technical decisions on system design, performance, reliability, security and infrastructure
• Lead a small team of senior engineers through technical design, code reviews and engineering guidance
• Work with ML and product teams to integrate AI capabilities into production applications
• Improve system performance, monitoring, testing and production reliability

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of production applications
• Strong backend engineering expertise, including APIs, databases, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
• Experience designing and scaling systems across multiple services or application platforms
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or AI-powered features into production applications
• Ability to make architecture decisions, review code and resolve difficult engineering problems
• Experience leading senior engineers through technical design, code reviews and mentorship
• Strong understanding of system performance, concurrency, reliability and production monitoring

Nice to have

• Experience building AI agents, orchestration systems or multi-step workflows
• Experience developing applications across web, mobile and desktop platforms
• Experience with messaging, email, collaboration or productivity applications
• Experience leading engineering teams in early-stage technology companies

About the company

ACTAI aims to build proactive applications for anyone in the world with minimal to no prompting. Their first application is an agent-first mobile communication app.