Qualitate

Qualitate

Staff Software Engineer

New York City · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 85 days ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLData AnalysisData VisualizationProduct ManagementProduct StrategyResearchExperimental Design

About the role

  • Join Qualitate's engineering team as a full-stack, staff software engineer with end-to-end ownership across backend and frontend infrastructure.
  • You'll work directly with the founding team to define technical strategy and product roadmap, not just execute tickets.
  • The engineering team is small enough that your decisions shape the product.

Responsibilities

  • We automate the entire primary research workflow, from study design and expert recruitment through AI-moderated interviews and insight synthesis - replacing weeks of manual research with hours of high-signal output.
  • Direct Impact. You'll help build an AI native product, and develop the systems and processes that define how this company scales.
  • You'll help build an AI native product, and develop the systems and processes that define how this company scales.

Requirements

  • Experience with real-time applications and/or WebSockets.
  • Ownership over how you work, not just what you work on.

Nice to have

  • 7+ years of experience building software.
  • Ideally some of it in a startup or fast-paced environment where you owned full features end-to-end, not just individual components.
  • Strong backend development skills.
  • Experience with Node/TypeScript and frameworks like Express.js.
  • Strong SQL optimization skills.
  • Proficient with frontend technologies.
  • Fluent with AI models and agentic coding tools.
  • This is core to how we work.

Compensation

  • Base salary: Competitive base, bonus eligibility, and early-stage equity stake.
  • Excellence. You'll be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar for quality and impact.
  • Direct Impact. You'll help build an AI native product, and develop the systems and processes that define how this company scales.
  • High velocity.
  • Fast-paced environment in terms of growth, decision-making, and time to impact.

Benefits

  • Health coverage, flexible PTO, paid holidays.
  • Competitive base, bonus eligibility, and early-stage equity stake.
  • Equity: Meaningful early-stage grant with upside tied to company growth.

Company info

  • Previous experience at a startup or high-growth company where you helped define the engineering culture.
  • Qualitate is building the AI-native primary intelligence platform for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers.
  • Expert research is a broken industry dominated by legacy incumbents with expensive, manual, and slow services.
  • Our customers include some of the world's largest enterprises, hedge funds, PE firms, credit investors, and venture capital firms.

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