Staff Software Engineer, AI Email App

Overview

Own the engineering layer for an AI email application, shaping architecture across backend services, APIs, and client applications. Lead a small senior engineering team while remaining hands-on with code and technical decisions.

What you'll do

• Own application engineering strategy across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Design reliable AI-powered workflows with orchestration, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to product experiences.
• Lead a small senior engineering team through reviews and mentorship.
• Balance latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.
• Establish observability, monitoring, testing, and operational foundations.
• Partner with ML leadership to ship robust product experiences.

What you'll need

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping production backend systems.
• Experience building AI-powered products or systems integrating ML or LLM capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment when making decisions with incomplete information.
• Experience across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one.
• Strong ownership, shipping, and real-world learning mindset.
• High standards for code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.

Details

• Location: China.
• Interviews may be conducted virtually and/or onsite.