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# Staff/Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** IAN SEAN CROSBY JAMAL
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $250,000.0 - $350,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Next.js, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Large Language Models
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-principal-software-engineer-synthetic-8296535

## About the Role

* 5+ years software engineering experience.
 * A pragmatic approach to building fast at the early stages of a company.
 * Familiarity and deep interest in the rapidly changing capabilities of LLMs.
 * Interest in discovering what problems our customers face and how we can solve them.
 * A sense of agency and urgency.
 * A severe bullshit allergy.

## Description

* Build agents that interact with customers and do accounting autonomously.
 * Build an accounting ledger from the ground up.
 * Integrate with financial data providers.
 * Ship new features daily in Typescript/NextJS.
 * Make lots of decisions quickly.
 * Take risks.


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