Staff Software Engineer, Product
Lightfield
About the role
About Lightfield
Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business. By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works—so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action.
More than 5,000 companies have used the product since its November launch. We’ve raised more than $70M from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Maverick Ventures, and Greylock to attack the biggest software category in the world. We previously built Tome, which reached more than 25 million users, and our team brings experience from Llama, Instagram, Google, and Salesforce.
About the role
We're looking for an experienced engineer to lead ambitious projects that turn complex business data and emerging AI capabilities into powerful new product experiences.
At Lightfield, engineers lead product development. They work directly with customers, identify important problems, shape solutions, and take end-to-end ownership of projects from inception to impact.
You'll help shape product direction, lead substantial engineering projects, and take responsibility for delivering exceptional results through hands-on leadership.
What you'll do
Work with customers, founders, and cross-functional teams to understand problems and identify opportunities.
Lead substantial projects end-to-end, from product design and technical architecture through implementation, launch, and iteration.
Build sophisticated AI-native products that transform complex business data into actionable intelligence, helping customers discover opportunities, make better decisions, and automate workflows.
Build reliable, high-performance systems with strong observability, metrics, and operational practices.
Lead technical design discussions, mentor other engineers, conduct thoughtful code reviews, and help establish engineering best practices.
Help build a world-class engineering team through recruiting and knowledge-sharing.
Who you are
You have 7+ years of experience building and shipping software products, with strong full-stack engineering skills.
You're a proven technical leader who can independently scope, plan, and drive projects while bringing other engineers along.
You have strong product judgment and can turn ambiguous customer problems into thoughtful, effective solutions.
You're a rigorous, analytical thinker who can break down complex problems, form hypotheses, and use data to evaluate solutions.
You care deeply about engineering craft, with high standards for reliability, performance, maintainability, and product quality.
You're excited about LLMs and the opportunity to build new kinds of intelligent systems and product experiences.
You have strong software engineering fundamentals, developed through a Computer Science degree, related education, or equivalent industry experience.
You can ramp quickly on a stack that includes TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
You communicate clearly and can explain product and technical decisions to both technical and non-technical teammates.
You're passionate about building products customers love and making Lightfield intuitive, intelligent, and indispensable.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive salary
Meaningful early equity
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
3 weeks of PTO
11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break
3 months of paid family leave
Wednesdays work from home
Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats
401k plan
Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend
Responsibilities
- Work with customers, founders, and cross-functional teams to identify problems and opportunities.
- Lead projects end-to-end, from product design and technical architecture through launch and iteration.
- Build AI-native products that turn complex business data into actionable intelligence.
- Develop reliable, high-performance systems with strong observability and operational practices.
- Lead technical discussions, mentor engineers, review code, and establish engineering practices.
- Contribute to recruiting and knowledge-sharing as the engineering team grows.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience building and shipping software products.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills and the ability to ramp up on TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Proven technical leadership in scoping, planning, and driving projects.
- Strong product judgment and ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into effective solutions.
- Analytical problem-solving skills and high standards for reliability, performance, maintainability, and quality.
- Interest in LLMs and intelligent product experiences.
- Computer Science education or equivalent industry experience.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical teammates.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful early equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Three weeks of paid time off, 11 company holidays, and a winter holiday break.
- Three months of paid family leave.
- Work from home on Wednesdays.
- 401(k) plan.
- Commuter and lunch stipends.
- Team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats.
Skills mentioned
About Lightfield
Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a business world model. It updates itself from every email, meeting, and Slack thread, so people and agents work from the same model of your business: what customers actually said, who said it, when, and what changed because of it.