Staff Software Engineer

Glade • Menlo Park, CA

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Glade.ai is building the next generation of AI-driven automation to help service businesses operate smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Our platform automates workflows, streamlines processes, and enables teams to scale without friction — empowering industries like legal, insurance, and professional services to focus on what matters most: delivering value to their clients. We’re looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical leader and mentor for our growing product engineering team. This is a rare opportunity to shape the architecture, engineering culture, and product direction of a rapidly scaling company from the ground up. You’ll lead a team of software engineers, driving innovation and ensuring the team delivers high-impact, scalable, and elegant solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in leadership or staff/principal roles.
• Have a strong understanding of engineering principles, industry best practices, and emerging technologies with our technology stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL
• Have meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and to handle increasing scale.
• Have built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using inference providers like OpenAI
• Care deeply about the end user experience and take pride in building products to solve customer needs.
• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.

Nice To Haves

• Solve a real or plausible problem for law firms, legal teams, or their clients.
• Demonstrate strong product judgment. We want to understand why you built what you built, the tradeoffs you considered, and how you decided what was worth prioritizing.
• Show thoughtful engineering. We care about architecture, state management, data modeling, edge cases, and how your solution could evolve as part of a production product.
• Present your work professionally. Please host it, share a repository, or provide a deployed link so we can evaluate not only the functionality, but also how you package, communicate, and ship your work.
• You are welcome to use AI tools throughout the process—in fact, we expect great engineers to leverage them effectively. However, the final result should not feel like a generic AI-generated demo. It should reflect your taste, judgment, and ability to turn an ambiguous problem into a useful product.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Design, another other stakeholders to understand customer needs and design the right solutions for them.
• Lead the design and implementation of major product and platform changes across Glade’s software stack.
• Continually raise the bar for the engineering organization by providing technical oversight and mentorship, building tooling, and improving engineering processes.
• Operate fluently across the full product lifecycle from design and implementation to production.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity grants
• High-energy in-person culture with an office built for focus, fitness, and fun — gym, yoga studio, dog park, free EV charging, and regular in-office events included
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Lunch, snacks, and team outings
• Latest tech & AI tokens covered

What This Job Offers

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