Staff Software Engineer, GlossGenius
Backend
$241-284k
+ target equity
Operating system for appointment-based businesses.
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Operating system for appointment-based businesses.
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$241-284k
+ target equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable business owners to reach new heights by growing their business and maximizing their income.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional engineering experience, with a strong focus on web, and a track record of leading high-impact technical work
- Proven experience operating at a senior-to-staff level, with a track record of owning system design and architectural choices for high-scale or high-growth products
- Strong backend depth with Kotlin (experience with TypeScript is a plus)
- Solid understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS and Kubernetes (you don't need to be a pure infra specialist, but you know how to navigate it)
- Hands-on experience integrating AI models and LLMs into customer-facing products
- Experience working in early-stage, startup, or high-innovation environments. You are comfortable shipping quickly, iterating rapidly, and navigating ambiguity
- Exceptional communication skills with a natural ability to collaborate closely with PMs, Designers, and other engineering teams to align on product vision
- Experience with or enthusiasm for AI-assisted development tools (like Claude Code) to maximize engineering velocity
What the job involves
- As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will act as a critical technical leader, architect, and enabler
- You will own and support the technical direction of our AI enabled products, turning ambitious initiatives into clear, buildable roadmaps
- This is an individual contributor role with a healthy balance of leadership and execution (roughly 60% technical planning, architecture, and proof-of-concepts, and 40% hands-on building)
- You will be a force multiplier for our talented engineering team - unblocking technical hurdles, keeping a healthy backlog of build-ready work, and helping to scale our AI powered products
- Lead technical planning, system architecture, scaling our AI powered products and 0-to-1 product builds , weighing long-term tradeoffs with precision
- Write high-quality code and rapidly build proof-of-concepts to validate architecture options and tackle the team's most complex technical challenges
- Act as a technical mentor and accelerator for backend engineers on the team, proactively identifying systemic technical debt, resolving blockers, and raising the bar for engineering excellence
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to turn ambiguous business goals into clear, well-architected initiatives, keeping a healthy backlog of forward-looking work
- Embed cutting-edge AI workflows (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) into your daily development practices, helping shape how our engineering organization leverages AI effectively and responsibly
Our take
Business management platforms exist for a wide range of industries, including retail, hospitality, and healthcare. But the beauty industry lacks specialized software and still runs on generic CRMs and basic spreadsheets. Recognizing a gap in the market, GlossGenius has stepped in to provided a specialized business management platform for beauty salons, spas and studios.
With little competition in this niche, GlossGenius has swiftly captured a large market share - it serves over 1000,000 businesses and has raised more than $70 million. With this backing, the company is accelerating platform development, and it is well on the way to fulfilling its long-term aim of developing into the Toast of the beauty industry.
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Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2026
$44m
SERIES D
Jul 2023
$28m
SERIES C
Total funding: $148.9m
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Danielle Cohen-Shohet
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding GLossGenius in 2015, Danielle was an Alternative investment Analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Leah Cohen-Shohet
(CBO)Leah joined GlossGenius in 2021 as Chief Business Officer. Prior to this, she worked in Go-To-Market Strategy & Launch at Archipelago. She also spent nearly 6 years at Symphony as a Strategic Chief of Staff, Global Head oCommunity Specialist Group and EVP of Growth & Adoption.
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