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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