Staff Engineer - Backend

AiDASH • Palo Alto, CA

2d

About The Position

AiDASH is a growing company recognized for its PreventionFirst movement. Forbes has named AiDASH one of America's Best Startup Employers for four consecutive years, and TIME has included AiDASH among America's Top GreenTech Companies for three years in a row. Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ ranked AiDASH No. 12 in the San Francisco Bay Area and No. 59 overall for 2024. The company is looking for a Staff Engineer to architect and build the services behind new products incubated in their product pods. This role involves owning back-end architecture for multi-tenant SaaS products from pilot through production scale, making and defending language and framework decisions, and designing APIs and tool surfaces for AI agents. It is a hands-on role where the engineer will write code, ship pilots, and set the technical bar for the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of back-end software engineering experience
• Deep experience architecting multi-tenant SaaS and distributed systems at scale
• Expert PostgreSQL knowledge, including schema design, performance tuning, and tenancy isolation
• Strong API design skills, with hands-on experience or clear depth building tool surfaces for agents (MCP or similar)
• Expert in Java and proficient in Python or TypeScript, with a record of making and defending language and framework choices
• A track record of turning an idea into a pilot and then a product, and the judgment to know when to kill one
• Architected a system that is still running in production at scale
• AI-Native Product Engineering: Proven ability to use AI coding tools and agents to rapidly build, evaluate, and ship end-to-end products
• Candidates will complete a hands-on, AI-assisted product-building interview to demonstrate their ability to direct AI tools, validate generated code, and make sound architectural trade-offs across inference infrastructure and user-facing application delivery
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Architect multi-tenant SaaS and distributed back-end systems that scale with customer and data growth
• Design PostgreSQL schemas, query patterns, and tenancy isolation models built for performance and security
• Build well-structured APIs and expose product capabilities as tool surfaces for AI agents using MCP or similar protocols
• Make and defend language and framework decisions for new pod products, balancing speed to pilot with long-term maintainability
• Take new product ideas from concept to pilot to product, and make the call to stop work that isn’t earning its place
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, mentoring, and hiring

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: 100% coverage for employees and 80% for their spouses and children
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA): 100% funded by AiDASH to cover medical deductibles
• 401(k) Plan: Begin contributing after two months of employment
• Parental Leave: Supportive parental leave with 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Generous Vacation Policy: Accrue 20 vacation days per year, plus an additional flex holiday
• Winter Break: From December 25th through January 1st

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior