Staff Software Engineer

WHAT YOU'LL DO In this role, you will build the product that gets stuff built. You'll work closely with engineers, designers, and end-users to accelerate our product development.

As a staff-level software engineer at Pulley, you will: - Own problem areas, not just features-define the technical direction for a domain spanning multiple product surfaces, and carry it from ambiguity through architecture to shipped, iterated-on product - Turn unstructured permitting documents, city regulations, and jurisdiction workflows into fast, reliable product experiences, with AI at the core of how the product works - Build with AI agents as a daily practice-directing, reviewing, and shipping agent-driven work at high velocity while owning the quality bar - Make the technical bets that determine what Pulley can build next year, not just this quarter-and own the consequences of those bets in production - Multiply the engineers around you: set technical direction others build within, mentor senior engineers toward larger scope, and make the whole team faster through the systems, standards, and abstractions you create WHO YOU ARE - You thrive in ambiguity-you'd rather define the right problem than execute a spec, and you're energized rather than paralyzed when the path isn't laid out - You're product-minded: you care whether the thing you built actually solved the customer's problem, and you'll talk to users to find out - You have strong opinions about quality and velocity and don't treat them as a tradeoff - you look for the tools, abstractions, and processes that buy both - You default to ownership at organizational scale: when something is broken or missing-a system, a process, a gap between teams-your instinct is to fix it, and you don't need permission or a mandate to start NEED TO HAVE - 8+ years of software engineering experience - Track record of owning a significant technical domain end-to-end: from "this is somebody's problem" through architecture, delivery, and production ownership, including the unglamorous parts - Fluency in modern full-stack development-we use TypeScript, React, and Google Cloud; you don't need our exact stack, but you should be productive with something similar - Real experience building with AI coding agents and LLM-powered features-not just autocomplete; you've shipped work where agents did substantial implementation under your direction - Ability to architect durable systems while making pragmatic tradeoffs - Experience mentoring engineers or setting technical direction that other engineers built within - Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and willing to work in person 4 days a week NICE TO HAVES - Experience in construction tech, govtech, proptech, or another domain where the hard part is messy real-world documents and processes - Experience designing evals or otherwise making LLM-powered features reliable in production - Experience as the most senior engineer in a domain-being the person others escalated to when nobody knew the answer - Startup experience at the stage where you helped build the team, not just the product