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Salary: USD 151,000 - 178,500 / annual
AnswersNow is building a virtual ABA therapy platform to make autism therapy more accessible and effective for families. The company operates fully remote.
You will serve as a Staff Engineer, owning the technical architecture and strategy of the core platform while mentoring engineers across the organization. This is a player-coach role: your primary output is team output and technical direction, not individual code, though you remain technically credible and engaged in architecture discussions.
Technical Leadership:
- Own and evolve the architecture of the core platform: React frontend, Node.js/Express APIs, Postgres, and AWS ECS infrastructure
- Drive the JavaScript-to-TypeScript migration, establishing patterns, tooling, and standards
- Design and extend the ETL pipeline and config-driven AI integration framework to enable faster, more reliable feature shipping
- Lead technical design reviews, create architecture decision records (ADRs), and ensure engineering decisions are documented
- Identify and resolve systemic technical debt with concrete execution plans
- Define and execute the technical strategy for integrating ML/AI models into the platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
Engineering Culture & Mentorship:
- Mentor engineers across all levels through pairing, code review, coaching, and capability building
- Establish and maintain engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, observability, on-call runbooks, and incident response
- Serve as a technical resource and thought partner for product, clinical, and business stakeholders
- Help define the engineering hiring bar and participate in interviews
Delivery & Operations:
- Partner with engineering leadership and product to scope, sequence, and de-risk large technical initiatives
- Lead by example on production support: define runbooks, own post-mortems, and drive systemic fixes from incidents
- Work across UI, API, DB, and infrastructure layers with genuine depth in at least two
The role is W2, full-time, 100% remote with flexible hours and an async-friendly culture.
Requirements:
- 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 — ability to 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 — demonstrated ability to make engineers around you measurably better
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to write architecture docs, run design reviews, and brief non-technical executives
- Experience working in or leading engineering at a growth-stage startup — understanding of 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
