# Staff Backend Engineer at Giga

- Company: Giga
- What the company does: Giga builds enterprise AI agents for customer support that resolve complex conversations across chat, voice, and email — deployed in weeks, human-like at scale. Backed by Y Combinator and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://giga.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gigaml/8adaaa03-6e33-4906-8ca3-6227abbee8bd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/giga-staff-backend-engineer-2/

## About the role

We're looking for a staff engineer to help shape the technical direction of our backend systems. You'll lead complex projects, make architectural decisions that affect the whole platform, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the team. This is a role for someone who wants to build, not just advise. You'll write code, own systems, and ship, but you'll also be expected to think beyond your immediate work to identify what the team should be building next and how we should build it.

## What they're looking for

- Have 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of leading complex projects
- Have opinions about how systems should be built, and can articulate the tradeoffs behind those opinions
- Can take a vague problem and turn it into a clear technical approach without much guidance
- Write excellent code and hold others to a high standard without being a bottleneck
- Are energized by hard problems and comfortable with uncertainty
- Want to be hands-on at a company where staff engineers ship code, not just review it

Tags: Engineering