Staff Software Engineer, Standard Bots
$210-300k
+ Offers Equity + Stock Options
3 days a week in office (Near Grand Central Station, NYC)
AI-powered robots
Be an early applicant
AI-powered robots
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-300k
+ Offers Equity + Stock Options
3 days a week in office (Near Grand Central Station, NYC)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To propel human productivity through the world’s most accessible robots.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale, complex projects that span multiple engineering teams. At least 1 year of experience as a staff engineer in a large software organization
- System Design: Deep expertise in architecting, developing, and operating distributed, highly-reliable, and scalable systems
- Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to influence technical direction without direct authority and successfully partner with product management, hardware engineering, and executive leadership
- Clarity of Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of synthesizing complex technical risks and strategies for non-technical leadership
- Proactive Simplicity: A relentless drive to reduce complexity, improve operational simplicity, and proactively identify organizational-level technical risks and address them before they become crises
- Tech Stack Expertise: Fluency in our core stack is preferred (React, Typescript, Node.js, Python, C++, Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- We are looking for an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical force multiplier across the organization. This role focuses on tackling the most ambiguous, complex, and high-leverage engineering challenges that span multiple teams and domains
- Your impact will be measured not just by the code you write, but by your ability to define the future state of our systems, drive massive, cross-cutting projects to completion, and significantly elevate the technical capabilities and standards of the entire engineering department
- 🏗️ Strategic Architecture & Long-Term Vision
- Define the Future: Own the long-term technical vision and strategy for major components of our platform, anticipating future scale, security, and product needs a year or more out
- Decouple and Scale: Design and champion new system architectures that focus on clear, stable interfaces and domain decoupling to accelerate the velocity of multiple feature teams
- Standard Setter: Establish and improve engineering excellence standards, including best practices for code quality, documentation, and the non-functional requirements (performance, reliability) that systems must meet
- 🏎️ Complex Project Leadership & Execution
- Drive Multi-Team Programs: Proactively identify, define, and lead complex, ambiguous, and high-risk technical programs (e.g., major platform refactors, organizational-level reliability efforts) that require coordination across 2-3 engineering teams
- Pragmatic Trade-Offs: Cut through organizational and technical complexity, making clear, pragmatic technical trade-offs that balance long-term vision with timely delivery against business goals
- Hands-on Delivery: Deliver technically deep, cross-cutting software solutions, primarily focusing on back-end systems but maintaining the necessary full-stack perspective to drive end-to-end integration
- ️ Production Excellence & Organizational Leverage
- Systemic Reliability: Drive deep-dive root cause analyses (RCA) for critical, cross-domain production issues, transforming immediate crises into concrete, prioritized engineering work that prevents recurrence across the fleet
- Technical Multiplier: Mentor and coach Senior and Mid-Level engineers across the organization, significantly contributing to their technical growth and thereby increasing the overall efficiency and quality of the engineering department
- Influence & Accountability: Reliably improve and hold others accountable for a higher quality standard (e.g., reliability, performance, security) across the entire software team
Our take
In recent years, the field of robotics has brought to life ideas that once belonged to the world of sci-fi. But, robots are still extremely complex to program, making the automations they facilitate out of reach for many businesses.
Standard Bots is setting out to change this, with AI-powered robots and a complementary robotics platform that means they can be programmed through simple demonstrations. This approach should broaden the accessibility of robots to businesses of all sizes, enabling them to employ automations that can give them a competitive edge.
It's an intriguing proposition, and investors clearly agree, with the company raising substantial funding to support its mission. Standard Bots plans to use these funds to expand its engineering team and speed up the development of its robots, as well as further improve its robotics platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$63m
SERIES B
Oct 2022
$24m
SERIES A
Total funding: $87m
Company HQ
Glen Cove, NY
Leadership
Evan Beard
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder and CEO at A Plus. Also co-founded Gridtech and Etacts, and was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in Software Engineering at Salesforce.
David Golden
(Co-Founder)Co-founder and Chairman at Miralinc Pharma, and Co-founder at Bowery Farming. Previously co-founded and was CEO at LeapPay, and has also worked in Investment at several businesses.
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