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This is a senior individual contributor role on one of our engineering pods. Our pods are small, fast-moving teams that own their area end to end and ship to production often. You will report to your pod's engineering lead and have no direct reports.\nYou will be an expert in the systems your team owns, and you will understand how data moves through the rest of Pathstream's platform. You will lead multi-person projects from design to production, set the technical bar for your pod, and help the engineers around you grow.\nA core expectation of this role is the ability to advance Pathstream's AI-native engineering practices. AI adoption is already deeply embedded in how we build software at Pathstream. We are looking for a technical leader who not only embraces this approach but actively pushes the organization forward in building, evaluating, and deploying AI-enabled development tools and agentic engineering workflows. Both as a hands-on practitioner and as a force-multiplier for engineers across the org.\nWHAT WE DO\nPathstream was founded on the premise that substantial unrealized economic and human potential exists within each organization's frontline workforce. We are reshaping the way employees and managers on the frontlines excel in their careers. In this age of rapid tech evolution, our enterprise partnerships transform frontline teams from transactional to relational, and from task-oriented to strategic.\nWe impact companies' bottom lines with improved productivity, increased retention, and differentiated quality of customer experience, while employees experience greater success in their current roles and unlock future professional growth.\nWe're a tight-knit, hardworking, mission-driven team of ~60 employees eager to scale our solution and transform the careers of our customers.\nTHE ROLE\nAI-NATIVE ENGINEERING\nOwn how your team delivers with AI, in addition to your own output. Reshape how projects are scoped, sequenced, and staffed now that implementation is cheaper, so the team's throughput goes up.\nOwn the team's shared AI patterns as a set: context files, skills, conventions, and workflows, including ones others wrote. Keep them maintained, and retire the ones that no longer help.\nLead adoption of new AI tools and methods in your area. Our current toolset includes Claude Code, Claude skills, MCP servers, and AI code review.\nNotice when the team's verification practices fall behind how fast code is now produced, and drive the fix end to end. Test strategy, staged rollout, and observability are part of that work.\nMake room for the team to experiment, and keep it safe to report that something did not work. Tell an experiment worth running from a distraction, and say no to distractions without killing the team's appetite to try new things.\nTECHNICAL OWNERSHIP & DELIVERY\nLead large feature releases end to end. These are usually multi-person projects that cross team boundaries.\nTake on significant, unique engineering problems where the data is incomplete and the trade-offs include intangibles. Diagnose root causes quickly and guide others through the trade-offs.\nBreak complex initiatives into clear, maintainable pieces that less experienced teammates can own.\nKnow when to focus on stability and quality, and when to ship quickly and iterate.\nWrite architecture documents that show how systems work together and where they are weak. Review other teams' technical documents with clear, timely feedback.\nQUALITY, SECURITY & OPERATIONS\nRecognize when systems or workflows need reinforcement to protect quality, and drive the solution end to end.\nApply strong security practice in your domain. Partner with engineering leadership on SOC2, vulnerability management, and the controls that protect our enterprise customers and learners.\nGive code review that others seek out because it is thorough, helpful, and kind.\nJump into incidents outside your normal scope in an emergency. Improve how the team detects, prevents, and responds to incidents.\nCOLLABORATION & MENTORSHIP\nGrow other engineers over an extended period. Tailor feedback to each person's skills, background, and working style.\nBuild strong relationships with product, design, and cross-functional partners. Represent your team's technical view in conversations about scope, sequencing, and trade-offs.\nWrite clear narratives that create understanding and help decisions get made. Adapt how you communicate to your audience.\nInfluence hiring and help develop strong engineering talent.\nABOUT YOU\nAI PRACTICE\nAI is a core part of how you work today. You can describe, with examples, how it changed the way you scope, build, and review software.\nYou have built AI tooling for yourself and for others: skills, MCP servers, context files, evaluation harnesses, or multi-step agentic workflows. Other engineers adopted and kept using at least one of them.\nYou have shipped AI features in production systems where an LLM is a first-class component. You have dealt with evaluation, observability, and cost.\nYou verify AI output with rigor. You can name the failure modes you watch for and the checks you added to catch them.\nYou keep up with the tools because you want to, not because someone asked you to. You run your own experiments, you have opinions about what works, and you share what failed as readily as what worked.\nEXPERIENCE\nYou bring 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record as a senior engineer.\nYou are an expert in one or more technical areas and proficient across a broad range of others.\nYou have led projects that crossed team boundaries, and you have shipped systems that other engineers depend on.\nYou bring deep familiarity with modern web application stacks similar to ours: Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, and AWS.\nYou have practical experience operating production systems that hold customer data, including security and compliance work in a SaaS environment.\nHOW YOU WORK\nYou lead through influence. Other engineers seek you out for technical feedback because your advice is thorough, helpful, and kind.\nYou are comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities. You make data-informed decisions when perfect information is not available.\nYou stay calm under pressure and help your team through change.\nYou ask for feedback and act on it. You celebrate the work of others, and you treat disagreement as a way to reach a better answer.\nWHAT WE OFFER\nTransparent and social culture, challenging work, fast learning cycles, practical training, and meaningful feedback\nStrong sense of ownership and strategic work that impacts our product, users, colleagues, business, and world\nSalary and total compensation offerings are contingent upon the candidate's level of expertise and geographic location, ensuring equitable remuneration.\nTier 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City: $190,000 to $220,000 \nTier 2 metropolitan markets: $171,000 to $198,000\nTier 3 regional markets: $152,000 to $176,000\nComprehensive benefits package:\n100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision for you; 50% for partner/spouse and dependents\nHealth, commuter, and parking flexible spending accounts\nEmployee Assistance Program (mental health, financial health, legal support)\nFree access to wellbeing apps (Ginger, Headspace)\nFlexible paid time off and paid holidays\nGenerous paid parental leave\nShort and long-term disability insurance\nAnnual professional development budget\nCompany-provided laptop\nRemote-first culture\nLife insurance (100% company paid)\n401(k)\nCOMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION\nOur company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We work on complex, difficult problems with no linear or clear solutions. We need a diverse team that can bring different perspectives and approaches, and whose experiences reflect the full set of stakeholders we seek to serve. Pathstream is an equal opportunity employer. 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