Staff Engineer

Eli Technologies

. Set technical direction for money movement, AI-driven decisions, and the underlying platform .

Posted 10/12/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesLead💰 $220,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining production software systems, with a strong focus on TypeScript, relational databases, and AI-driven decision-making. Capable of leading engineering teams, ensuring compliance, and managing personal and financial data effectively.

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TypeScript Backend DevelopmentRelational Database ManagementSystem Design AccountabilityAI Model IntegrationEngineering Team Leadership

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Hard Skills

TypeScriptNode.jsNext.jsTRPCPrismaMySQLPostgresDebuggingGitSchema Design

Soft Skills

First-Principles ReasoningClear Communication

Tools & Technologies

AirtableTemporalPulumiDockerVercelTailscaleDatadogSentryDbtSnowflake

Industry Keywords

Money MovementFraud DetectionComplianceSecurityPaymentsLendingReconciliationPersonal Data ManagementFinancial Data HandlingAI Agents

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerJavaScriptMySQLNext.jsNode.jsPostgresTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set technical direction for money movement, AI-driven decisions, and the underlying platform
Design the evolution of the ledger, decisioning, and platform systems
Raise engineering standards through code review and pairing
Determine what processors, contractors, and program administrators need
Build, monitor, and iterate on end-to-end product functionality
Work on document verification, eligibility checks, and fraud detection
Decide when to use an AI model, rule, or human and measure effectiveness
Maintain the ledger, lender loan tape, and reconciliation against bank records
Consolidate systems such as Airtable into agentic, in-house operations and program-configuration tools
Improve CI speed, test-suite health, backups, database migrations, alerts, and workflows
Investigate production failures, identify root causes, fix them, and document outcomes
Write and ship code weekly
Help shape engineering-team growth and hiring

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years building production software
Experience as the person responsible for a system when it breaks
Staff-level scope or equivalent impact
Experience leading the design of a system other engineers build on and remaining accountable for it in production
Deep TypeScript on the backend, including Bun, Node, Next.js, tRPC, Prisma or similar
Solid relational database skills in MySQL or Postgres, including schema design, query plans, and migrations
Track record of taking on work outside an assigned lane and finishing it
Strong debugging and first-principles reasoning skills
Strong git knowledge, including rebase
Ability to reason through requests from browser to database and back
Ability to use AI agents heavily while remaining the author and accountable for every line of code
Ability to work in compliance- and security-heavy environments
Experience handling personal and financial data
Ability to write short, clear status updates
Nice to have: Temporal or another workflow engine
Nice to have: Payments, ledgers, lending, or reconciliation experience
Nice to have: dbt, Snowflake, or other analytics tooling
Nice to have: Evaluating LLM output with test sets and metrics
Nice to have: Infrastructure experience with Pulumi, Docker, Vercel, Tailscale, Datadog, or Sentry
Nice to have: Energy programs or utility software experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meaningful equity package
Generous medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible, unlimited time off, with a minimum of three weeks encouraged
At least two company gatherings each year
Budget to co-work when solving difficult problems together
Welcoming, family- and parent-friendly environment