Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Product (AI App Platform)
ScrumAID
San Francisco, CA · Posted November 1, 2026
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About the job
A very small, fast-moving startup offers an AI-driven platform through which business owners without technical skills can build and run their own software, along with a family of headless SaaS building blocks such as authentication, content management, media storage, email and commerce. It is hiring a senior-level engineer with particular depth in client-side work and broad strength across the stack and comfortable operating production cloud systems.
Product ownership
Take charge of customer-facing product areas of the platform from concept to completion, covering the conversational builder agent, the app-building tool, the mobile web experience and the headless SaaS modules
Pick up a well-defined objective with no prescribed answer and drive it to a finished product, refined by what users tell you
Collaborate daily alongside the founders about product direction and respond fast to input from a big base of mostly non-technical users
Craft deliberately simple interfaces through which non-technical owners operate business-critical tools such as CRM, ERP and HR software
Carry features from the first sketch through system architecture, schema and API work to release, and keep refining afterward
Build core SaaS capabilities such as billing and entitlements, analytics, experiments and feature flags, localization and notifications
Lean on cutting-edge AI-assisted coding to greatly increase what you personally deliver
Experience profile
Usually four to ten years of experience, with entire modules or significant features delivered to real users rather than fixes alone
Production cloud experience on AWS, GCP or Azure at significant scale, with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK) and containerized services
Hands-on experience with a durable workflow orchestrator such as Temporal, and deep database skills across Postgres or Redis
Comfort turning vague goals into simple products that run without hand-holding
A steep career trajectory, startup or founder experience, and daily use of AI coding tools
On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visa transfers considered.