Staff Engineer

The role

A Staff Engineer will own the technical quality bar, architecture, and engineering harness. You will write and review code, make build-versus-buy decisions, and turn company goals into technical roadmaps.

What you will do

• Own the technical quality bar across architecture, testing, observability, security, and performance.
• Make architectural decisions regarding service boundaries, data models, and AI infrastructure.
• Decide on build versus buy for core and vendor components.
• Build the engineering harness including CI, test infrastructure, and automation.
• Lay the foundation for mission-critical systems including reliability and monitoring.
• Solve complex production incidents and redesign systems while running.
• Mentor engineers and multiply the team's output.
• Turn company goals into technical roadmaps and sequence work.

Required qualifications

• Staff-level experience as a backend or full-stack engineer.
• Track record of owning high traffic or high stakes systems.
• Real depth in AI/ML engineering with experience operating LLM-powered or ML systems in production.
• Experience making architectural decisions at scale.
• Experience setting and enforcing engineering standards on a team.
• Experience leading a team.
• Hands-on ability to write and review code.
• Product judgment.

Nice to have

• Experience in healthcare or another regulated industry (HIPAA, PII/PHI handling, auditability).
• Experience with real-time systems, voice, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience as an early engineer at a startup that scaled.
• Python and TypeScript

Benefits

• Mission with massive impact.
• Breadth of work including real-time voice and agentic AI.
• Competitive compensation.
• Meaningful early equity.

About the company

Mira Mace pairs Medicare beneficiaries with a dedicated healthcare advocate who navigates appointments, insurance, and care coordination. The founding team includes experience from Google, Meta, Dropbox, and Amazon.