Staff Software Engineer, AI Email App

Overview

Staff Software Engineer for an AI Email App, owning the engineering layer that turns AI capability into a reliable product.

What you'll do

• Own application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to product experiences.
• Lead a small team of senior engineers through design and code reviews and hands-on mentorship.
• Make trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.
• Set up production foundations including observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence.
• Partner with ML leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable experiences.

What you'll need

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping backend systems used in production.
• Experience building AI-powered products or systems integrating modern ML/LLM capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment to make decisions with incomplete information.
• Ability to work across backend and client platforms with deep expertise in at least one.
• Bias toward ownership, shipping, and learning from real-world usage.
• High standards for code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.

Details

• Location: Singapore.