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We're looking for a Staff Engineer who combines deep technical judgment with strong product instincts, and who is energized by applying modern AI tooling to accelerate both their own work and the broader team's output. At this level, you'll drive technical direction across teams and help define the engineering culture at Binti.
We're looking for a Staff Engineer who combines deep technical judgment with strong product instincts, and who is energized by applying modern AI tooling to accelerate both their own work and the broader team's output. At this level, you'll drive technical direction across teams and help define the engineering culture at Binti.
Own cross-team technical strategy for major platform areas — setting direction on architecture, reliability, and scalability, not just within your squad but across engineering
Lead complex, multi-quarter infrastructure and architectural initiatives from design through delivery, coordinating dependencies across teams
Define and champion engineering standards and patterns that make the codebase more flexible, scalable, and maintainable for all engineers
Partner closely with Product, Policy, and Technical Account Management to shape roadmap decisions with strong technical and product perspective
Identify and resolve systemic risks — including security, HIPAA compliance, performance bottlenecks, and incident response — before they become problems
Raise the technical ceiling for the whole engineering org through code review, design critique, and modeling excellent judgment
Proactively leverage AI and modern tooling to drive higher output quality and team efficiency
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Architect a reusable, configurable platform layer for scheduling and application requirements that scales across dozens of distinct agency workflows nationwide
Design the data model and engineering plan for representing complex, non-biological human relationships across the platform
Lead the cross-team technical design for transferring applications between agencies with variable permission and workflow configurations
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Demonstrated track record leading large-scale infrastructure and architectural projects across multiple teams or systems
Ability to set technical direction, not just execute on it — including navigating ambiguity, making principled trade-offs, and bringing others along
Deep experience building and maintaining configurable, enterprise-grade systems; government-facing software experience is a strong plus
Strong command of Ruby on Rails and React; GraphQL experience a plus
Product orientation — you think about user impact and business outcomes, not just technical elegance
Excellent communication skills: you can distill complex technical decisions for product, engineering, and non-technical stakeholders
Experience mentoring and elevating senior engineers, and a genuine investment in team culture
Fluency applying AI tools in your own workflow and excitement about building AI-powered product features
Mission-driven software company serving child welfare agencies with workflow, case management, and family-support tools.
Visit company websiteJobs and hiring trendsUSD 160000-300000 yearly / year
Full-time
Senior
Hybrid
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