Staff Engineer
Pryon
Software Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
About Pryon:
We’re a team of AI, technology, and language experts whose DNA lives in Alexa, Siri, Watson, and virtually every human language technology product on the market. Now we’re building an industry-leading knowledge management and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform. Our proprietary, cutting-edge natural language processing capabilities transform unstructured data into meaningful experiences that increase productivity with unmatched accuracy and speed.
As a Staff Engineeryour primary responsibilities will encompass the design, architectural planning, and coding of a groundbreaking new initiative within our product engineering domain on a front-end facing team. You will be at the forefront of leading the technical strategy and execution for extensive and intricate requirements, applying forward-thinking and insightful methods that not only impact the entire engineering function but also address large, multifaceted challenges.
Your role will extend to establishing a visionary direction for the strategic advancement of methodologies, techniques, and evaluation criteria. You will act as an advisor and guide for the team spearheading this new initiative, delegating responsibilitiesto seasoned technical leaders to ensure its success.
In addition, your proactive approach will involve identifying and rectifying communication gaps and issues, promoting alignment on complex matters among diverse audiences, and exerting influence on organizational goals and strategies. A crucial aspect of your role will be becoming a trusted coach and mentor, actively engaged in nurturing new leadership talent within Pryon by providing continuous feedback and guidance.
In This Role, You Will:
- Architect, design, and develop software that enables Pryon’s customers to manage critical operations that impact the sustainability and efficiency of their business
- Develop new user-facing features
- Collaborate with our design and product teams to build products, tools, and solutions, and ensure the user experience meets release criteria
- Troubleshoot and problem-solve across platform
- Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes and standards
- Set technical direction for their squad, oversee development to ensure quality and timely delivery, mentor and guide the team, and manage technical risks
- Participate on cross functional design teams to develop expertise in other modules/systems
What You'll Need to Be Successful
- A minimum of 7 years of extensive engineering experience
- Proficiency in coding using functional or imperative programming languages, such as Golang
- Proficiency in front-end engineering, including hands-on experience with technologies like React and Typescript
- Demonstrated track record of contributing to and leading the successful delivery of impactful product features across all phases of development, from initial research and UX design to prototyping, testing, and development
- Proven experience in taking ownership of technical architecture discussions and guiding critical technical decisions for an engineering organization
- Experience with distributed systems deployed in Kubernetes (K8S)
- Ability to produce clear, testable code with a focus on long-term maintainability
- Exceptional collaboration and interpersonal skills, enabling effective teamwork and communication
- A "startup mentality" with previous experience in startup environments
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of training, fellowships, or work experience
- Previous experience as a tech lead is required
Benefits for Full Time Employees:
- Remote first organization
- 100% Company paid Health/Dental/Vision benefits for you and your dependents
- Life Insurance, Short-term and Long-term Disability
- 401k
- Unlimited PTO
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is authorized to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.
Pryon will not consider race, religion, sex, sexual preference, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation's civil rights laws.