Arcadeai

Lead Software Engineer - Growth

San Francisco, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$260kDetected 111 days ago

TypeScriptPythonGoReactDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisDatabricksVector DatabasesOAuthLLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingLeadershipMentoring

About the role

The moment an agent accesses customer data, executes a workflow, or makes changes on behalf of a user, authorization, governance, and trust become the real engineering challenge.
Arcade is the MCP runtime that gives agents the power to do both seamlessly.
We connect agents to the systems they act in, then give each one a permission slip and a paper trail - proof of what it's allowed to do, and a record of what it did.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction and delivery for Growth engineering: activation flows, onboarding, billing, docs, and developer experience surfaces across the product.
Lead a small team (1-2 engineers today, growing): unblock them, review their code, and set the technical bar. You'll be IC-heavy at first, coding alongside the team, and gradually shift toward planning, architecture, and technical direction as the team grows.
Build the experimentation and measurement layer: feature flags, A/B tests, funnel instrumentation, and cohort dashboards so the team can run data-driven activation experiments.
Navigate cross-team dependencies with Platform and Tools engineering: bring funnel data, propose interface changes, and ship contributions to services you don't own when it unblocks activation work.
Build leverage by using automation and AI tooling to compress cycle times. Projects that take a week today should take a day next time.
7+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership (tech lead, staff engineer, or similar - formal title matters less than the work).
build champions for Arcade - agent builders who not only stick around, but advocate for Arcade's use at their company.
This is not a "manage from the sidelines" role; you'll be writing code across Go, Python, and TypeScript, shipping changes across Arcade's services and frontend, and unblocking team members.

Requirements

You can translate between backend infrastructure and user-facing surfaces.
Experience working across several services operating independently - you've navigated shared libraries, cross-service dependencies, and coordinated deployments without breaking things.
Comfort with ambiguity - pre-PMF, early team, narrow charter that will expand.
Experience at an early-stage startup, and you loved it

Nice to have

Go and/or Python experience strongly preferred.

Skills

An insatiable desire to ship.
Experience with OAuth/OIDC flows, identity systems, or auth infrastructure
Familiarity with the MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem or similar agent-tool protocols
real actions, on real systems, already shipping inside Fortune 100 companies.
Every AI app needs agentic tools that let AI models take real actions.
Without tools, AI can only chat.
With tools, AI can actually do things.
Think Zapier for AI Actions.
Think Auth0 for AI.
Think really big.
He's done this before - and this time the market is 10x bigger.
He knows this space better than anyone.

Compensation

$170,000-$260,000 USD

Company info

Real deployments with Fortune-100 customers like Morgan Stanley and Open Table
We've assembled authentication, integrations, distributed systems, and AI experts from Okta, Redis, Microsoft, Splunk, Ngrok, Google, Airbyte, Disney, and HPE who've built and founded multiple successful developer platforms.
That means our entire focus right now is on the earliest part of a developer's journey: getting someone from the moment they sign up to the moment they've built something valuable, as fast as possible.

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