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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Founding Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** The Clinical - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** AI Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Agentic-AI, Data Layers, LangSmith, Information Technology, Production Code, Front End Software Development - **Published:** October 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/23_3B0DB9CA55A9FBCC96BC7E02D5D99741 ## About the Role Required Qualifications At least 8 years of professional software-engineering experience, ideally within the 8-15-year range. ] Bachelors degree in a Computer Science program or STEM degree preferred. Experience serving as a staff engineer, founding engineer, technical lead, or de facto technical anchor for an engineering team. Demonstrated success leading large technical projects and coordinating the work of other engineers. Strong full-stack product-engineering experience with the ability to own features across the frontend, backend, infrastructure, and deployment. Recent hands-on experience - within the last one to two years - shipping LLM-powered features or AI agents into production. Experience building and launching zero-to-one, customer-facing products. Strong product judgment and the ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into practical technical solutions. Experience mentoring junior engineers and raising standards for code quality, testing, reviews, and engineering processes. A record of writing and shipping production code in a recent role. Strong communication skills and experience partnering with product leaders, customers, customer-success teams, and founders. Ability to work onsite in San Francisco every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Backend-leaning full-stack engineers are encouraged to apply, provided they can independently own and deliver complete product features. Technology Environment: The current technology environment includes: Python TypeScript React SQL LLMs and agentic AI frameworks LangSmith Braintrust Weights & Biases CI/CD and cloud infrastructure AI evaluation and observability systems Experience with every listed technology is not required. Strong engineering fundamentals, full-stack product ownership, and recent production AI experience are more important than an exact tool match. Preferred Qualifications: Experience at an early-stage startup, ideally between seed and Series B. Experience as a founding engineer or early technical hire. A combination of startup experience and time within a larger organization with mature engineering practices. Experience building multi-step agentic pipelines. Experience implementing AI evaluations or LLM observability in production. Experience with LangSmith, Braintrust, Weights & Biases, or comparable tools. A computer science degree or equivalent professional experience. Genuine interest in healthcare, biotechnology, life sciences, or clinical research. ## Description About the Role: We are seeking a Founding Staff Software Engineer with at least eight years of experience to serve as the technical anchor of a small, high-impact engineering team. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role-not a traditional engineering-management position. You will write and review production code daily, lead major technical initiatives, mentor three junior engineers, and establish the engineering practices needed to support the company's next stage of growth. Working directly with the CTO, founders, product, and customer-success teams, you will turn customer problems into zero-to-one AI products and own them from early ideation through production. What You'll Do: Own AI-powered products from customer discovery and initial concept through architecture, development, deployment, and iteration. Build production-grade LLM features, AI agents, and multi-step agentic workflows. Architect and deliver full-stack applications across the frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data layers. Serve as the technical lead for major projects and coordinate the work of other engineers. Write, review, test, and ship production code every day. Mentor three junior engineers through technical coaching, pairing, and thoughtful code reviews. Establish best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, CI/CD, code reviews, and engineering workflows. Design production evaluations, observability, and monitoring for LLM-powered systems. Partner with product, customer success, founders, and customers to identify problems and shape new products. Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, scalability, and the realities of an early-stage company. Help define the company's engineering culture, technical roadmap, and long-term development standards.