4 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for performance optimization across startup time, memory footprint, and CLI communication.
- Design, build, and ship advanced features including auto-approval rules, context optimization, and Smart Apply workflows.
- Lead cross-team initiatives spanning the extension, backend services, and AI infrastructure.
- Own feature delivery from technical design through production deployment, rollout, telemetry, and post-launch iteration.
- Establish engineering standards for AI coding workflows, context optimization, token compression, and chat interfaces.
- Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks while balancing feature velocity and long-term system health.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and pairing sessions.
- Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and translate business priorities into technical plans.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience with technical leadership on production systems serving large user bases.
- Proven ability to set technical direction, make architectural decisions under uncertainty, and deliver through hands-on contribution and leadership.
- Deep experience building developer tools, IDE extensions, or similar productivity software used by 100K+ users.
- Expertise in TypeScript and modern JavaScript, including asynchronous patterns, event-driven architectures, and Node.js runtime optimization.
- Experience with performance optimization at scale, including profiling, instrumentation, and measurable improvements in startup time, memory usage, or throughput.
- Experience with AI-assisted coding tools, chat interfaces, or agent-based development workflows, including context-window management and LLM integration patterns.
- Ability to influence technical decisions across teams, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices.
- Strong product sense and ability to partner with non-engineering stakeholders.
- Based in and willing to work Eastern Time Zone hours.
- Preferred experience includes optimizing VS Code extensions or Electron applications, leading startup cross-functional initiatives, contributing as an open-source maintainer, and working at AI or data-science-focused companies.
Benefits
- Fully remote setup with flexible hours.
- Flexible vacation policy, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage and paid parental leave.
- Monthly wellness stipend, employee assistance program, and mental health resources.
- Annual bonus potential, equity participation, and comprehensive benefits.
- Paid 3–5 day trial with a defined deliverable.
- In-person onboarding in Austin, Texas.
- Application deadline is November 2, 2026, with ongoing review until the role is filled.
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About Anaconda
Anaconda builds the open-source Anaconda Distribution and conda package manager for Python/R data science, plus enterprise tools for secure package management, governance, and AI workflows. It monetizes through commercial subscriptions, support, and training that help teams manage packages at scale and deploy notebooks and models. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the privately held company also develops Kilo Code, a widely used AI-assisted coding extension for VS Code.