We don't just use AI. We build with it, ship with it, and think with it. We're in the top 1% of companies applying AI effectively, not just to our products, but to how we build them. With an unlimited budget for Anthropic tokens, our engineers use AI agents to write, review, and ship production code every day. We're building toward a world where humans design systems and AI builds them, and we're already further along that path than almost anyone else.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll be a technical leader at the center of this transformation. You'll shape platform architecture, drive AI-powered product delivery, and raise the bar for what a small, AI-augmented engineering team can accomplish. This is a role for someone who already lives in their terminal with AI, who has strong opinions about how AI changes system design, and who wants to help define what a next-generation engineering organization looks like.
What You'll DoHere are examples of the kinds of initiatives you'd work on today:
Self-serve advertising platform. Build the systems that let agents purchase, launch, and manage Meta and Google ad campaigns directly within Presence, including automated campaign creation, flexible budgeting, and real-time performance reporting without ever touching a third-party ads dashboard.
AI-generated social video. Build the pipeline that uses AI to create compelling, on-brand video content for agents and automatically publishes it to platforms like Instagram and TikTok, turning listing data and agent profiles into scroll-stopping social media at scale.
Full-funnel attribution from ad dollar to closed deal. Design the data model and event architecture that connects a Google ad click to an AI conversation to a deal stage change, giving agents ROI visibility they can't get anywhere else and enabling the next evolution of CRM-driven campaigns.
Next-level SEO and GEO for real estate agents. Build the systems that unlock the next layer of organic growth for our clients, helping them capture demand across traditional search engines and AI-powered generative search experiences alike.
What We're Looking ForAttributes
You already build with AI daily. You use Claude Code as a core part of your workflow, not as a novelty
You have strong opinions, loosely held, about how AI changes software architecture, team structure, and engineering culture
You think in systems. You connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and long-term business value
You communicate clearly and directly. You can explain complex tradeoffs to product, design, and executive stakeholders
You're energized by ambiguity and speed. You thrive in a fast-growing company where the roadmap evolves and ownership is real
You like to have fun at work. We take our craft seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate wins, crack jokes, and genuinely enjoy building together
Skills and Experience
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time in senior or staff-level roles
Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React
Experience designing and operating scalable microservice architectures in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred)
Strong understanding of GraphQL, event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS), and distributed databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch)
Proven track record leading high-impact initiatives from concept through production in a SaaS environment
Expert-level grasp of software design principles and experience with multi-tenant platform architectures
Tech Stack
Frontend: React, Tailwind, Apollo
Backend: Node/TypeScript Microservices
Data: Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda, Temporal
Messaging: Kafka, SQS
Top Skills
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