Staff Engineer

ROLE OVERVIEW

early-growth phase. The ideal candidate combines deep executional ability (80% IC

work) with light leadership, owning both architecture decisions and high-velocity feature

delivery.

OBJECTIVES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Hands-On Feature Delivery: Drive development of core product features through

end-to-end ownership coding, reviews, testing, and documentation.

• Refactor & Optimize: Reduce technical debt by modernizing legacy code,

stabilizing the system, and enhancing performance.

• CI/CD Implementation: Build and manage fully automated deployment pipelines

to support fast, reliable delivery.

• Technical Strategy: Work closely with the technical founder to shape and execute

Adsgency's engineering roadmap.

• Team Mentorship: Guide and mentor engineers, manage resources, and enforce

scalable dev processes.

• Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate with product, design, and investor

stakeholders to ensure end-to-end execution readiness.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

• Experience: 810 years in software engineering, ideally in IC or Staff roles (no

pure people managers).

• Execution Mindset: Startup-level hustle with a bias toward shipping code and

solving real problems.

• Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js

Backend: Python (Flask)

• Systems & Infra: Kubernetes, scalable microservices, distributed systems,

architecture/design documentation

• Data & ML: PyTorch, LangChain, multi-agent frameworks, Transformers, and

modern LLM development experience

• Tooling: Cursor, AI dev tools (nice-to-have)

NICE TO HAVE

• AdTech / MediaTech background (e.g. LinkedIn Ads, Meta Ads)

• Competitive coding pedigree (e.g. ICPC, Kaggle, hackathons)

• Experience with early-stage startups (pre-Series A) or founding teams

• Previous stints at high-growth product companies (Meta, Google, AWS, OpenAI,

Perplexity, Pinecone, Scale AI, etc.)

• Top-tier academic background (GPA 3.8+/4.0 preferred)