Staff Software Engineer

The role

You will set technical direction and own architecture for major parts of the product. You will solve high-stakes problems regarding reliability and AI agent quality systems while building with coding agents.

What you will do

• Set technical direction
• Own the architecture for major parts of the product
• Write code to back up architectural decisions
• Solve ambiguous, high-stakes, cross-cutting work
• Build reliability at millions-of-tickets scale
• Build evaluation and quality systems for AI agents
• Design tooling, guardrails, and feedback loops for coding agents
• Make other engineers better through design reviews, mentorship, and code example

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience shipping software
• Experience as a staff- or principal-level engineer at a company with high engineering standards
• Experience setting technical direction for a product or platform
• Experience leading ambiguous, high-stakes projects from blank page to production across the stack
• Use coding agents as a core part of a development workflow

Nice to have

• Knowledge of TypeScript, React/Remix, PrismaORM, NestJS, and Python

Benefits

• Flexible hours
• Unrestricted access to AI with no usage limits
• The whole company flies to Hawaii twice a year
• Real scope and ownership
• Promotions happen when ready

Before you apply

• Paid ~two-day work trial

About the company

Lorikeet builds AI that handles complex, high-volume support for fintechs, healthtechs, marketplaces, and delivery services. They are a Series A company headquartered in Sydney.