Staff Software Engineer, AI & Platform

You'll join a small, senior, fully distributed engineering team. We operate with high autonomy and very little process: a customer asks for something Monday, it's built Tuesday, shipped Wednesday, and we're reading their feedback by Friday. You can form a hypothesis, ship a small experiment, measure it, and iterate without waiting for permission.

We're an outlier in our industry in how aggressively we use AI tooling, and this role sets the pattern for everyone else. You'll partner directly with our engineering leaders on technical direction, and you'll mentor mid and junior engineers who will look to you for how the work gets done.

We've grown roughly over the past two years and we're financially disciplined, maintaining lots of runway. That means you get startup speed without startup precarity.

Build AI products that let studio operators automate their operations so they can focus on the parts of their business they're most passionate about

Build agentic loops that improve the product, our codebase, our internal systems, and our ability to deliver for customers

Position us to get the most out of AI models as they continue to improve

Simplify our infrastructure and operations to make both our human and agent engineers faster

Improve our operational rigor and automated safety nets: detecting, alerting on, and responding to issues in production

Work across the stack (TypeScript, Node, NestJS, React, Postgres) to ship features and improvements daily

Mentor mid and junior engineers, and partner with engineering leadership to establish patterns the whole team adopts

Be accountable not just for your own output, but for how you help the team deliver more

We believe in setting our team up to thrive.

Ship to production in your first week and keep shipping

Build working context on our stack, the migrations in flight, and where our biggest reliability gaps are

Land one self-contained win that makes the team measurably faster

You've altered the way our engineers work, in a positive way, and introduced AI-powered capability the team didn't have before

A meaningful piece of customer-facing AI functionality is in front of real studios

You're seen as a model staff engineer here, and other engineers name you as a source they learn from

The patterns, safety nets, and tooling you've built are load-bearing for how the team ships

8+ years of software engineering experience in most cases, though we care more about evidence than years

Full-stack contributor. Deep expertise somewhere is great, but everyone here contributes across the stack. If you only want to work in one layer, this isn't the role

A JavaScript and TypeScript background. You can come from an adjacent ecosystem, but you should be fluent and happy in JS/TS

AI-native. You actively use AI tooling in your daily work and you build agentic workflows, evals, and automation into how your team operates. Not just coding assistants

Scope of impact beyond a single team. You've influenced how engineering works at an org of roughly 20+ engineers, not just shipped well within your own squad

A track record of leading successful migrations

Experience designing systems for reliability: observability, alerting, incident response

A history of influencing beyond your own work, including setting technical direction, establishing patterns others adopt, and raising the bar through code review, pairing, and mentorship

Strong product judgment: you can take an ambiguous customer problem, scope it pragmatically, and ship in small increments

Comfort operating with high autonomy and low process, creating the right amount of structure rather than waiting for it

You care about wellness and fitness personally

You've built for entrepreneurs or small business owners before, or perhaps you’ve been one yourself

You’ve spent time both within a larger, established engineering org and within a high-growth startup

You want to build for small business owners and care about how your work shows up in their day to day

You want to stay hands-on at the staff level and go deeper as an IC, not move into management

You are drawn to the mission of making wellness more accessible

You're looking for a path into people management in the next 12 to 18 months. This role is IC by design

You want to work in one layer of the stack only

You'd want to move us onto a different language or ecosystem

You see AI tooling as a nice-to-have rather than a core part of how you work

You want clearly scoped tickets, a defined roadmap, and a design doc before code

You want a slower pace or a more established later-stage environment