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Our innovative virtual ABA therapy platform is thoughtfully designed by clinicians to recreate the focused, supportive environment of in-person therapy, complete with distraction-free features and interactive activities that enhance engagement and progress.\nOur team operates fully remote-meaning you’ll have the flexibility to work from the comfort of home. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and join a team that's reshaping autism therapy, we’d love to hear from you!\n\nWhy this role matters:\nWe'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.\nAt 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.\nJob Details\nW2 Employee\n\nFull-Time\n\n100% Remote\n\nJob Requirements\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level role\n\nDeep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript in a production full-stack environment\n\nStrong command of React, Node.js/Express, and Postgres - you can reason about performance, reliability, and maintainability at each layer\n\nProven experience designing and owning distributed systems or data pipeline architectures on AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda experience valued)\n\nTrack record of technical mentorship - you've made engineers around you measurably better\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication; you can write an architecture doc, run a design review, and brief a non-technical executive in the same day\n\nExperience working in or leading engineering at a growth-stage startup - you understand the balance between velocity and sustainability\n\nFamiliarity with ETL pipelines, AI/LLM integration patterns, or data-intensive systems is a strong plus\n\nSignificant experience architecting and deploying production-grade ML/AI systems, including LLM integration and model lifecycle management.\n\nNice to have:\nExperience with healthcare or regulated data environments (HIPAA compliance, PHI handling)\n\nFamiliarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, or streaming pipelines\n\nPrior experience as an engineering manager who returned to an IC track (player-coach background welcome)\n\nContributions to open source or engineering blog posts / conference talks\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nTechnical Leadership\nOwn and evolve the architecture of our core platform: React frontend, Node.js/Express APIs, Postgres, and AWS ECS infrastructure\n\nDrive our JavaScript → TypeScript migration, establishing patterns, tooling, and standards the team can follow\n\nDesign and extend our ETL pipeline and config-driven AI integration framework, enabling engineers to ship AI-powered features faster and more reliably\n\nLead technical design reviews, create architecture decision records (ADRs), and ensure engineering decisions are documented and defensible\n\nIdentify and resolve systemic technical debt - not just flagging it, but owning the plan to address it\n\nDefine and execute the technical strategy for integrating ML/AI models into our core platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.\n\nEngineering Culture & Mentorship\nMentor engineers across all levels - pair, review, coach, and grow the team's collective capability\n\nEstablish and maintain engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, observability, on-call runbooks, and incident response\n\nServe as a technical resource and thought partner for product, clinical, and business stakeholders\n\nHelp define the engineering hiring bar and participate in the interview process\n\nDelivery & Operations\nPartner with engineering leadership and product to scope, sequence, and de-risk large technical initiatives\n\nLead by example on production support - define runbooks, own post-mortems, and drive systemic fixes from incidents\n\nWork across UI, API, DB, and infrastructure layers with genuine depth in at least two\n\nWhat we Offer\n$151,000- $178,500 annual salary\n\nFully remote - work from anywhere in the U.S.\n\nFlexible hours with an async-friendly team culture\n\nMore About AnswersNow\nAnswersNow welcomes applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We believe a diverse team is a strong team, and are committed to provide a fair and equitable experience for every candidate. If you require reasonable accommodations at any stage, we encourage you to reach out. We’re here to support!\nLearn more about us at getanswersnow.com.\nE-Verify & Right to Work\nAnswersNow participates in E-Verify and electronically verifies the work authorization of all new hires upon employment. 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