Staff Engineer
AnswersNow Inc, Remote
The role
Staff Engineer Remote, Anywhere in the US
What you need
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level role
- Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript in a production full-stack environment
- Strong command of React, Node.js/Express, and Postgres — you can reason about performance, reliability, and maintainability at each layer
- Proven experience designing and owning distributed systems or data pipeline architectures on AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda experience valued)
- Track record of technical mentorship – you've made engineers around you measurably better
- Excellent written and verbal communication; you can write an architecture doc, run a design review, and brief a non-technical executive in the same day
- Experience working in or leading engineering at a growth-stage startup — you understand the balance between velocity and sustainability
- Familiarity with ETL pipelines, AI/LLM integration patterns, or data-intensive systems is a strong plus
- Significant experience architecting and deploying production-grade ML/AI systems, including LLM integration and model lifecycle management.
Nice to have
- Experience with healthcare or regulated data environments (HIPAA compliance, PHI handling)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, or streaming pipelines
- Prior experience as an engineering manager who returned to an IC track (player-coach background welcome)
- Contributions to open source or engineering blog posts / conference talks
Why this role matters
We're looking for a Staff Engineer who operates at the intersection of deep technical expertise and broad organizational impact. You don't just write great code — you elevate the entire engineering organization. You shape architecture decisions, define engineering standards, mentor engineers across all levels, and partner with product and clinical leadership to translate complex problems into scalable technical solutions.
At AnswersNow, this means owning the technical health of our platform — our React frontend, Node/Express APIs, Postgres data layer, AWS ECS infrastructure, and our growing ETL and AI pipeline ecosystem — while ensuring the team can move fast without accumulating crippling technical debt.