Staff Software Engineer

Location: Menlo Park, CA
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: Competitive salary + significant milestone-based equity

Glade.ai is building the next generation of AI-driven automation to help service businesses operate smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Our platform automates workflows, streamlines processes, and enables teams to scale without friction — empowering industries like legal, insurance, and professional services to focus on what matters most: delivering value to their clients.

We’re looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical leader and mentor for our growing product engineering team. This is a rare opportunity to shape the architecture, engineering culture, and product direction of a rapidly scaling company from the ground up.

You’ll lead a team of software engineers, driving innovation and ensuring the team delivers high-impact, scalable, and elegant solutions.

• Partner with Product, Design, another other stakeholders to understand customer needs and design the right solutions for them.

• Lead the design and implementation of major product and platform changes across Glade’s software stack.

• Continually raise the bar for the engineering organization by providing technical oversight and mentorship, building tooling, and improving engineering processes.

• Operate fluently across the full product lifecycle from design and implementation to production.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in leadership or staff/principal roles.

• Have a strong understanding of engineering principles, industry best practices, and emerging technologies with our technology stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL

• Have meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and to handle increasing scale.

• Have built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using inference providers like OpenAI

• Care deeply about the end user experience and take pride in building products to solve customer needs.

• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.

• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.

Put yourself in our shoes. We get over 100 applicants / week. We want to spend time with the right candidates. During your interview process you will meet at least 3 other engineers and managers within Glade. So putting your best foot forward by building something unique is the fastest way to being the right candidate and stand out from everyone.
You are the right candidate if:

• You have looked at what we do on our website with great detail and vibe coded a small feature - however tiny that would either help our customers: the law firms that use Glade or their Clients that are served on the Glade platform.

• Use of LLMs and Cursor is highly encouraged.

• Build bits of the UI or interesting use of LLModels to extract or modify data - you can make it as interesting as you need. Use your imagination and build something fun and cool.

• High Impact: Your decisions will shape the future of Glade’s platform and product direction.

• Significant Equity: Milestone-based equity grants that grow as we scale.

• Fast-Moving Culture: Work with a small, talented team solving real, high-value problems.

• Mission-Driven: Help redefine how service businesses operate with the power of AI.