Staff Software Engineer, Product/AI

Customer.ioNorth America, Latin AmericaLeadSoftware Engineering

The role

Customer.io, a messaging platform used by over 9,000 companies, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Product/AI area. The role owns ambiguous product problems end to end across a Go and React stack. Location limits are not stated.

What you will do

  • Own ambiguous problems from initial framing through launch and iteration
  • Partner with product, design and data on priorities, scope and success measures
  • Lead technical decisions on architecture, performance, reliability and maintainability
  • Align teams and resolve technical disagreements on cross-team initiatives
  • Mentor engineers, build reusable patterns and use AI across the engineering workflow
  • Join an on-call rotation for the systems the team builds

What they ask for

  • Track record of leading complex work across teams or systems
  • Strong backend engineering experience with the ability to work across the stack
  • Sound product and technical judgment when the path is unclear
  • Ability to influence experienced peers without formal authority
  • Experience using metrics, experimentation and observability on production systems
  • Regular hands-on use of AI across the software development lifecycle

What they offer

  • 10% annual bonus target
  • Full coverage of medical, dental, vision and mental health premiums
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave and unlimited PTO
  • Remote work and wellness stipends plus a professional development budget

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Customer.io's careers page behind the apply button.

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