Staff Software Engineer, Merge

Applied AI

$209-232k

+ Equity

AWS

Python

Golang

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office

Customer-facing integrations & agent tools

Job no longer available

Customer-facing integrations & agent tools

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseHRAPIAccountingData Integration

Job no longer available

$209-232k

+ Equity

AWS

Python

Golang

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseHRAPIAccountingData Integration

Company mission

To make secure data access easy.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We are hiring a backend engineer with ML/AI experience onto our Automation & Applied AI team
7-10+ years of full-time software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years working with ML/AI systems in production
Proven experience building production applications that incorporate ML models (e.g., LLMs, recommendation systems, classification models)
Experience with serving and scaling ML models
Startup or SaaS experience preferred, with an ability to perform in a fast paced environment dealing with ambiguous technical challenges
Experience with Python, Golang, & AWS cloud infrastructure (or similar technologies)

What the job involves

Our team is focused on harnessing Applied AI and large language models (LLMs) to build net-new, externally facing products and to drive internal efficiency through automation, intelligent tooling, and AI-native user experiences
Build and maintain AI-powered applications: Design production-grade software that integrates machine learning models into real-world systems
Fine-tuning and prompt engineering: Adapt base models to specific product needs through techniques like few-shot prompting, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or fine-tuning
Tooling and infrastructure: Develop internal tools, orchestration systems, and evaluation frameworks to support ML product development
Experimentation: Run A/B tests and analyze performance metrics to guide model and product iterations
Leadership and autonomy: Participate in roadmapping and architecture discussions, leading large projects from initial inception to production
Cross-functional teamwork: Work across disciplines, from infra to UX, to ship full-stack AI features

Our take

To help B2B companies navigate the increasing number of APIs needed to integrate SaaS product, Merge supplies a unified API. This provides access to dozens of payroll, recruiting, accounting, and HR platforms using a single integration layer. This way, businesses can work with a large number of APIs without compromising on efficiency.

Merge was founded in 2020 and has already built a large client base for itself, including Deed, AngelList, Ramp and Reachdesk. It has also expanded into new areas, providing support for CRM tools, ticketing systems and project management functions. With an impressively escalating annual revenue, and considerable funding at its back, the company continues to build out its product into new verticals.

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Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2022

$55m

SERIES B

Nov 2021

$15m

SERIES A

Total funding: $74.5m

Company benefits

Healthcare
Unlimited PTO
Parental Leave
401k

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Shensi Ding

(Co-Founder)

Studied Computer Science at Columbia before joining Credit Suisse as an Investment Banking Analyst. Previously Chief of Staff at Expanse.

Gil Feig

(Co-Founder)

A Columbia graduate who has worked for LinkedIn and Wealthfront as a Software Engineer. Previously Head of Engineering at Canvas.

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