Staff Software Engineer, AI Applications

United States, Remote. Posted 3 days ago

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.