Affinity helps private equity and VC firms source deals, manage relationships, and close faster with AI-powered relationship intelligence and automated data capture. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Set and own the technical direction for a core product domain, including the architecture decisions, the sequencing, and the tradeoffs you choose to make and defend Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives end to end, breaking ambiguous problems into work other engineers can pick up and run with Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years building and shipping production software as a full-stack engineer, with a track record of technical leadership on ambiguous, high-stakes projects
- Demonstrated impact beyond your own team, whether that's through architecture other teams build on, standards you established, or engineers you grew
- Experience building product features on top of LLMs or agent frameworks, including how you evaluated and monitored them
- Strong server-side experience with modern OOP practices, we use Ruby and PostgreSQL, and we're open to candidates with deep expertise in a comparable stack who are motivated to pick ours up
- Experience building component-based interfaces with React and TypeScript
- Deep understanding of relational databases, including designing systems that scale and diagnosing performance bottlenecks before they reach customers
More about this role
With a growing customer base and expansion into new markets and use cases, we have more to build than ever at Affinity as we execute on our vision to put relationship intelligence at every professional's fingertips.
Reporting to the Sr Engineering Manager, as a Staff Software Engineer , you'll have the opportunity to push our product in new directions while also shaping the next iterations of the features our customers already love. This is a hands-on role with broad scope. You'll work across the stack, from our data model and async processing on the backend to design systems and rich visualizations on the frontend. You'll also be one of the people product and engineering leadership come to when the path forward isn't obvious yet.
Set and own the technical direction for a core product domain, including the architecture decisions, the sequencing, and the tradeoffs you choose to make and defend
Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives end to end, breaking ambiguous problems into work other engineers can pick up and run with
Partner closely with product and design from the problem-definition stage, shaping what gets built and not just how it gets built
Raise the technical bar across...
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