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Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business by learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations to build a living understanding of how companies work. The platform helps AI assist teams in anticipating what comes next, making better decisions, and taking action. Since launching in November, over 5,000 companies have adopted the product. The company has raised more than $70M from top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Maverick Ventures, and Greylock. The founding team previously built Tome (25M+ users) and brings experience from Llama, Instagram, Google, and Salesforce.
In this Staff Software Engineer role, you will lead the development of the next generation of intelligent pipeline generation, combining rich business data, AI agents, and powerful automation to help companies discover and engage new customers. You'll tackle ambitious challenges spanning company and people intelligence, data enrichment, buying signals, prospect discovery, and automated outreach. The scope includes sophisticated data models, large-scale processing, intelligent agents, and customer-facing product experiences.
Key responsibilities include: leading ambitious projects that help businesses discover opportunities and identify prospective customers through intelligent automated workflows; building systems that ingest, enrich, and connect information about companies, people, and relationships from diverse sources; developing intelligent prospecting capabilities combining business context, behavioral signals, and AI-driven research; building agentic workflows that automate complex multi-step processes from research and list building to personalized engagement; designing sophisticated customer-facing experiences that make powerful data and AI capabilities intuitive; building reliable, scalable, high-performance systems with strong observability and operational practices; leading technical design and mentoring other engineers; and contributing to building a world-class engineering team through recruiting and knowledge-sharing.
At Lightfield, engineers lead product development, work directly with customers, identify important problems, shape solutions, and take end-to-end ownership from inception to impact. You'll help shape product direction, lead substantial engineering projects, and deliver exceptional results through hands-on leadership.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of experience building and shipping software products with strong full-stack engineering skills
- Strong product judgment; ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into thoughtful, effective solutions
- Rigorous, analytical thinking; ability to break down complex problems, form hypotheses, and use data to evaluate solutions
- Hands-on technical leader who can independently scope, plan, and drive substantial projects while mentoring other engineers
- Deep commitment to engineering craft with high standards for reliability, performance, maintainability, and product quality
- Excitement about LLMs and building new kinds of intelligent systems and product experiences
- Strong software engineering fundamentals developed through Computer Science degree, related education, or equivalent industry experience
- Ability to ramp quickly on stack including TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
- Clear communication skills; ability to explain product and technical decisions to technical and non-technical teammates
- Passion for building products customers love and making Lightfield intuitive, intelligent, and indispensable
