5 months ago
Base Salary
$148k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical design for complex customer-facing systems and integrations.
- Design, build, deploy, monitor, and iterate on production-grade integrations using Middesk APIs, data pipelines, and AI workflows.
- Own complex deployments end-to-end and establish reusable deployment patterns and engineering standards.
- Build and operate LLM- and agent-based systems in customer workflows, including evaluation frameworks, test harnesses, metrics, and feedback loops.
- Partner with customers to understand their architectures, workflows, and constraints, and solve ambiguous high-impact problems.
- Translate deployment learnings into reusable abstractions, internal tooling, product improvements, and roadmap priorities.
- Guide engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on collaboration while leading through influence.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building and shipping software in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or domain owner for a team or major system.
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional language such as TypeScript or Go.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Ability to work across backend systems, integrations, infrastructure, and tooling.
- Strong debugging instincts, ownership, communication, and ability to explain technical trade-offs.
- Hands-on experience building or deploying LLM-powered or agent-based systems is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation techniques, performance measurement, automated workflows, AI agents, or AI-powered developer tooling is valuable.
- Experience in startup environments, fintech, compliance, regulated systems, or direct customer work on complex technical problems is valued.
- Bonus experience includes founding or joining an early-stage startup, identity systems, risk or fraud, workflow automation, observability, reliability engineering, or system safety practices.
Benefits
- High ownership, trust, autonomy, and direct influence on product direction and technical standards.
- Work on deep technical problems with real-world customer impact.
- Thoughtful engineering culture that values substance over performative process.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Middesk
Middesk builds business identity intelligence and KYB infrastructure—APIs and data services that verify entities, assess risk, and automate onboarding for B2B platforms, banks, and fintechs. It also offers tools for business formation, registration, and employer compliance that integrate into operations and compliance workflows. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and YC-backed, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi.