Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Product & Systems
Lightfield11 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product leaders to define strategic initiatives, identify customer problems, and drive requirements into technical execution.
- Build and maintain complex full-stack product features and systems end to end.
- Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Develop observability and metrics for smooth operation, proactive issue detection, and continuous improvement.
- Lead technical design discussions, mentor teammates, conduct code reviews, and establish engineering standards.
- Contribute to recruiting, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing to help build the engineering team.
- Help shape Lightfield’s product and technical vision.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience with strong front-end and back-end experience.
- Experience building large-scale, high-performance, mission-critical systems supporting complex customer workflows and large-scale data processing.
- Ability to design, architect, and scale distributed systems in production.
- Ability to ramp quickly on TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Excitement about Large Language Models and systems that support and leverage them.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Ability to independently scope, plan, and lead projects in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
- Clear communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Passion for building intuitive, intelligent, and indispensable customer products.
Benefits
- Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 3 weeks of paid time off.
- 11 paid company holidays plus a winter holiday break.
- 3 months of paid family leave.
- Work from home on Wednesdays.
- Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats.
- 401(k) plan.
- Commuter and lunch stipend.
- Meaningful early equity.
- The role offers a competitive salary, with no explicit base-pay amount stated.
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About Lightfield
Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that assembles itself from your email, calendar, and meetings. It captures every interaction and turns it into organized context: accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and insights, so nothing slips through the cracks.