Staff Software Engineer-AI

About the position

GoodLeap’s Consumer Solutions Business Unit is redefining how homeowners manage and benefit from sustainable home solutions. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of our intelligent platform capabilities that power delightful, data-driven consumer experiences. This is a high-impact role for a technical leader who thrives on marrying architectural excellence with AI/LLM innovation. You’ll help shape how our systems interact with and serve personalized, secure, and scalable content across mobile and web apps, all while mentoring others and influencing the broader engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead backend architecture that supports AI/ML-powered features across mobile and API surfaces
• Own end-to-end technical strategy for embedding LLMs, embedding stores, and personalized content delivery
• Partner with product and design to scope features, validate feasibility, and ensure execution aligns with business impact
• Build tools and services to help other team members experiment and ship AI-enhanced features responsibly and efficiently
• Influence engineering standards and promote excellence in observability, performance, and security
• Mentor engineers across teams, helping them level up in areas of backend architecture, AI integration, and delivery quality
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across QA, Mobile, Data Science, Product, and Marketing

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend development, with at least 2+ years working with AI/ML solutions or LLM
• Experience working with vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search
• Familiarity with MLOps, CI/CD for AI pipelines, and AI observability tools
• Strong experience in Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and REST APIs
• Deep familiarity with AWS architecture — especially Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and Step Functions
• Experience building and integrating LLM features (e.g., via OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or similar), including prompt design, vector storage, and retrieval strategies
• Fluency in system design principles, scalability, reliability, fault-tolerance
• Ability to drive clarity and make architectural tradeoffs, balancing idealism with pragmatism
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to work effectively across product and engineering orgs

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with AWS Bedrock
• Familiarity with mobile tech stacks (Flutter, Kotlin, Swift)

Benefits

• $173,000 - $200,000 a year
• This role may be eligible for a bonus