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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** The Arbor Company - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $220,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing Security, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Twilio, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Fastapi, Front End Software Development - **Published:** June 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2d4b4fd3ae13ba3a ## About the Role Do you have experience in Startup experience?, * 5+ years shipping production software, including time as an early engineer at a seed/Series A startup * Full-stack generalist who owns features end-to-end with sharp product judgment - knows what to build, what to cut, when to push back * Ships predictably and communicates clearly; credible with an enterprise VP of Ops on a customer call and async with a remote CTO * Production experience in at least one of voice/audio, LLM apps, or data/insights pipelines (Umi is all three) * Fluent in Python/FastAPI + TypeScript/React; moves across frontend, backend, and infra in a single PR * Has shipped against flaky third-party APIs under latency/reliability pressure (telephony, real-time audio, payments, etc.) * Working knowledge of LLM app development: prompts, structured output, retrieval, evals, and non-deterministic systems that hold up in prod * AWS or GCP with multi-tenant SaaS security instincts (data isolation, PII, SOC 2) * Excited to be a foundational hire building AI for frontline enterprise Nice-to-haves * Staff/tech-lead IC ready to grow into eng lead within ~12 months * Voice agent stack (LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi, Retell, or custom on Twilio/Deepgram/ElevenLabs) + speech fundamentals (ASR, TTS, diarization, VAD) * Production agentic LLM workflows: tool use, multi-step, eval-driven ## Description * Huge market, weak competition: Billions of offline conversations happen daily. No one else is solving this for real enterprise. * Large enterprise customers: We're already working with multi-billion dollar manufacturers, retailers, and logistics companies. * Strong founding team: Backgrounds from Harvard, Princeton, Meta, Insight Partners, IBM. We know how to listen, build, sell, ship, scale- then iterate and accelerate. * Real upside: Already backed by the best with $6M+ from 645 Ventures, NextPlay Ventures (Jeff Weiner), Wisdom, and angels, but early enough for founding team members to see generational outcomes from equity. * Product that works: Customers see immediate ROI. Enterprise deals close fast. Mostly importantly, join for the team. We're A+ players who live our values: * Own the outcome: From first idea to customer impact, see it through. No hand-offs, no excuses. * Real problems only: Find energy in work that actually matters, not in building features that sound cool but solve nothing. * Intellectual honesty: Admit what isn't known, ask uncomfortable questions, and challenge assumptions without fear. * Clarity through chaos: Thrive in 0-to-1, high-intensity environments. Move fast but think clearly, turn confusion into direction, ship quality under pressure. * Empathy above all: Obsess over customer problems and think deeply about user needs before making any decision. 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