Staff Software Engineer

Avy • San Francisco, CA

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

Avy's mission is to empower humans to work more efficiently and effectively with each other and with technology in knowledge work positions. We believe that software that acts as a companion for you and your team, looking out for your best interests and helping you level up at work in a trusted, secure way, will not only make the world more productive, but will improve quality of life for everyone it touches. Avy was founded by a serial founder and former leader in the AI/ML group at Apple, has team members with multiple exits (including an IPO), and is backed by $10M in pre-seed and seed funding to ensure we can execute at the highest level. As the first Staff Engineer at Avy, your role is crucial in transforming our product ideas into reality. Your mission is to do whatever it takes technically to delight users and make the business successful. You will have the chance to showcase your knowledge and experience to build high-quality software that bridges the gap between humans and computers. This is not just a coding job, it’s a technical leader–like role with massive influence on product, architecture, and execution. This role is high ownership and high impact, requiring someone who can deal with a complex system and many components, envision how it should change to satisfy the needs of users and business, and then knock down walls to make it happen. Your contributions will inspire and spearhead new features and capabilities that will push the boundaries of Avy and the market.

Requirements

• Multi language proficiency at least one statically typed language
• Proven experience in software engineering (10+ years) across multiple languages, operating systems, and product types.
• Experience in system architecture, including distributed systems or multi-process applications.
• Background in technical leadership, management, or architectural roles.
• Comfort working in complex systems in which requirements and goals might be ill-defined or change rapidly as the company learns

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience at a startup or small, high-velocity team—ideally where you helped develop, launch, and scale a complex product
• Experience with machine learning and AI models, either on device or in the cloud, is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, architecture, and execution of high-quality software for across multiple platforms, from macOS and Windows to web to server components, while focusing on user delight and business success.
• Transition smoothly between intensive coding and strategic architectural planning.
• Rapidly deliver new value to users, prioritizing immediate user needs while maintaining a long-term vision for technical excellence.
• Cultivate our engineering culture through rigorous testing, code reviews, and continuous integration.
• Utilize your leadership skills to enhance team collaboration and leveraging collective strengths.
• Work closely with product, design and leadership to balance technical and resourcing constraints with business goals and user needs.
• Communicate and collaborate closely with internal colleagues and external users and partners.
• Jump in to learn from customers, address their needs, and make their experience with Avy successful.
• Work on anything from prototyping a new collaboration flow between users to troubleshooting performance in a custom local LLM runner process to improving our server infrastructure autoscaling to architecting a key distribution system to ensure security and privacy for our users.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($164,000-$224,000) with meaningful equity and substantial upside potential
• Competitive benefits (health, vision, dental, 401K, etc) and paid parental leave
• Developer-worthy equipment and tools are provided to ensure you have all you need to excel.
• Nearly endless opportunities for growth and advancement as the company succeeds and meets its objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed