Staff Engineer

Modulate is the leader in conversational voice intelligence. We are building a Conversation Intelligence Platform, including APIs, workflows, and applications that bring voice understanding to customers at enterprise scale. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to help architect, scale, and evolve our core product platform as we grow into new markets and customer segments. You'll be a technical leader and systems thinker working across the stack in an environment built on quick iteration, where engineers operate with a high degree of ownership and independence.

Responsibilities

Own features from ambiguous problem statement through design, implementation, deployment, and customer feedback, partnering with product and fellow engineers across the stack as needed; Exercise strong scoping judgment: deliver high-quality features quickly while making deliberate, well-understood trade-offs; Set the technical quality bar for the team through your own work; Improve engineering workflows and tooling to make delivery faster for everyone; Make pragmatic technology choices that fit the problem at hand; Multiply the team through design feedback, code review, and mentorship without adding process for its own sake; Partner directly with product and customers to shape what we build next

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience across multiple layers of the stack, with a strong record of technical ownership and shipped impact; A track record of taking products or major features from zero to customers, ideally in startups or environments with quick iteration cycles; Excellent judgment about scope: knowing when good enough is right, when quality is non-negotiable, and how to tell the difference; Strong systems thinking spanning backend services, APIs, data persistence, and the interfaces that connect them; Comfort with ambiguity and independence; Clear, direct communication with engineers, product leaders, and customers alike

Nice to have

Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps practices; Experience productionizing ML models or building on ML-powered APIs, especially audio/voice; Experience in developer-facing API products, gaming, or trust and safety

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity; Full health, dental, and vision coverage; Flexible PTO, with a strong culture of taking it; Weekly team lunches with dietary accommodations; Hybrid work with core in-office days and flexible remote options; Regular leadership and industry learning sessions; Support for career development and continued learning; Up to 8 weeks work-from-anywhere policy; A deeply inclusive, human-centered culture; HSA; FSA; 15 holidays; Professional growth resources