Staff Engineer

Role: Member of Technical Staff

Experience:

ROLE OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a hands-on Staff Engineer / Tech Lead to join us at a very pivotalearly-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: 8–10 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)