Staff/Principal Software Engineer

The role

You will set the technical direction and lead the development of the core platform. This includes architecting high-impact systems and collaborating with product, AI, and go-to-market teams.

What you will do

• Own and lead the design, development, and deployment of major product features across the AI-driven lead management stack.
• Make key technical decisions on architecture, infrastructure, and scaling.
• Drive rapid iteration and experimentation.
• Collaborate directly with founders to shape product direction and technical strategy.
• Debug and solve problems across the stack.
• Set the engineering bar for code quality, testing, reviews, and best practices.
• Build and manage strong working relationships with technical counterparts.
• Mentor and share knowledge with peers.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Influence decision-making through presentation of data-centric business topics.

Required qualifications

• 7-12 years experience as a software engineer building and shipping production quality code
• Experience with open source languages such as Python and TypeScript
• Experience with writing and shipping reliable, scalable, and efficient code
• Experience with software design and architecture
• Experience with AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code
• Fluency in English is required

Nice to have

• Experience writing code in Python
• Experience writing code in React.js
• Experience with AWS technologies
• Client/partner-facing and/or experience communicating to an audience
• Experience working in highly collaborative environments
• Experience working on multi-person code bases including open source or personal projects
• Experience contributing to developer and platform documentation

Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity options
• Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%
• Snacks
• A generous tech budget
• Unlimited vacation
• Company outings

Before you apply

• Uniti AI participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility.

About the company

Uniti AI is a New York City–based Series A startup building advanced AI sales and support agents for the real estate industry.