Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Curri is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Technology team as a Product Engineer with real ownership over outcomes. You will be expected to pick up complex problems independently, scope the solution in collaboration with stakeholders, and deliver production-ready changes without waiting for a fully-defined specification. The role requires fluency across the entire technology stack, from backend services to customer-facing user interfaces, and the ability to switch context as the problem demands. You will leverage AI tooling on a daily basis to accelerate development, design, and review while maintaining full ownership and accountability for the code you ship. Success in this position will be measured by the measurable impact you leave in every system you touch, demonstrated through clear outcomes and continuous iteration.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Own engineering problems end-to-end by talking to the stakeholder, scoping the solution, shipping to production, measuring results, and iterating without waiting for a fully-formed ticket.
• Ship multiple surfaces per quarter in weekly loops, with a clean answer to "what shipped this week and what did it tell us?" every cycle.
• Build across the full stack as the problem demands, including backend services in TypeScript, Node, Postgres, NATS, and Redis alongside customer-facing or internal UI in React and React Native.
• Use AI tooling fluently every day, including Claude Code in plan and edit modes, Cursor, and Claude for design and code review, and take full ownership of everything you ship with it.
• Make architectural decisions that scale, leave systems better than you found them, and partner with Platform and Infrastructure to move the codebase in the right direction.
• Get context directly from the people closest to the problem, including PMs, ops, drivers, and customers, ask the hard scope questions early, and keep cross-functional stakeholders informed throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Translate ambiguous operational needs into technical solutions, define the minimal viable approach, and validate assumptions quickly through targeted experiments.
• Write maintainable, testable code with attention to performance, reliability, and cost, ensuring that each change contributes to long-term system health rather than short-term fixes.
• Participate in code reviews, provide thoughtful feedback, and incorporate AI-assisted suggestions critically to ensure quality and consistency across the team.
• Track and communicate progress clearly, surface risks early, and adjust priorities based on real-world feedback and system metrics.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience building production software with a product engineer mindset, comfortable with broad scope and little spec, with the expectation that you will define the work rather than wait for it to be handed to you.
• Full-stack range across backend systems (TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, NATS) and UI (React), with the confidence to cross lines as the problem demands rather than staying in a familiar lane.
• Fluency with AI-paired delivery through daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent agents, with a clear sense of when to use plan mode, when to drive the agent, and when to write the line yourself, and a consistent habit of reviewing AI output critically before it ships.
• Systems thinking that extends beyond feature delivery, with the ability to reason about scale, reliability, latency, and cost and design for the system you will need rather than the one that just works today.
• Direct, proactive communication with cross-functional stakeholders: you ask hard scope questions early, don't go dark for weeks, and earn trust by keeping people informed.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities can shift quickly and ownership means stepping in to solve the hardest problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate technical tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences during high-stakes operational discussions.
• A bias for action that balances speed with sound engineering judgment, ensuring that solutions are robust, maintainable, and aligned with business goals.

Nice to have

• Shipped production code using Claude Code or a similar agent in the last six months and can speak to where it accelerated your work and where it led you astray.
• Experience in a small-team or startup environment where the spec arrived as a Slack message and you had to turn it into a shipped outcome.
• Ownership of a measurable metric such as latency, reliability, conversion, or cycle time, not just a shipped feature.
• Experience mentoring less-senior engineers on product engineering practices or AI-paired delivery.

Practical notes

This is a full-time remote role based in the United States. The company is remote-friendly and also has the option to work based at HQ in Ventura, California. There are no specific hours required beyond normal collaboration windows, and there is no mandatory travel. There are no visa sponsorship requirements at this time.