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Powered by a proprietary community, seamless logistics, expert research methodologies, and AI-driven analytics, Highlight’s platform is purpose-built for modern physical product teams and trusted by leading brands, top retailers, and emerging innovators alike. The Highlight platform delivers high-impact insights with unmatched quality across every stage of the product innovation lifecycle-from early ideas and prototypes to in-market renovation-empowering teams to act quickly and bring winning products to market with confidence.\nAbout the role\nAs a Staff Software Engineer on our Data Products team, you'll own the architecture and execution of data-intensive systems that power insights for our customers. You'll balance hands-on technical leadership with mentorship, setting the technical bar for how we build at scale while shipping features that directly impact product strategy and customer value. 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To help make our mission a reality, you’ll:\nUse your technical expertise and good judgment to translate ideas, wireframes, and detailed designs into data-intensive web applications that deliver value for our customers\nUse agentic loops throughout your development process to accelerate value delivery\nUse architecture and code reviews to coach, mentor, and raise the bar for both end-user products and software systems\nTriage, investigate, and resolve complex issues involving distributed systems and third-party providers\nUnderstand and directly advance Highlight’s mission\nWhat We're Looking For\nHighlight was founded to make the hardest parts of physical product testing easy. Even if you’re new to the space, we’d love to see your own experience turning rough ideas into polished, usable data products. That may include:\n5+ years of experience building data-intensive online applications\nFamiliarity with ETL and/or RAG design and development\nProficiency in multiple technologies across our software stack (React, TypeScript, Next.JS, ai-sdk, PostgreSQL, and C#/.NET)\nFamiliarity with design and prototyping tools like Figma and v0\nBonus points for experience operating CI/CD pipelines (we use Github Actions, Terraform, and helm), production systems (AWS, EKS) or observability platforms (Grafana/OTel) aligned with our stack.\nBeyond Your Experience\nWe’re building a culture that will serve Highlight far beyond our current, early stage, and all of us have a big part to play. To that end, we prize humans who are:\nOwners. You’ll take initiative, deliver results, and inspire the people around you to do the same.\nImpact-driven. You’ll understand your users’ needs and take ownership in delivering value on their behalf\nGreat teammates. 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