Staff/Principal Software Engineer
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Uniti AI. New York · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $206,250–$273,725.
Uniti AI has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
techroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Lead major features across the lead-management product, from design through deployment
- Choose architecture and infrastructure approaches, then address scaling needs
- Ship experiments quickly and use what you learn to guide the next iteration
- Work with founders on product choices and technical direction
- Raise code quality through reviews, testing standards, mentoring and practical feedback
What you bring
- At least seven years building and shipping production software
- Hands-on experience with Python or TypeScript and AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code
- You have designed software architecture and delivered reliable, scalable code that is maintainable and tested
- You can work fluently in English
Who this fits
This senior engineering role suits someone who wants broad ownership across product development, technical decisions and code quality. You’ll work in a flexible hybrid setup in the New York City area.
From the employer
Uniti AI — New York City Metropolitan Area (Hybrid)
Uniti AI is a New York City–based Series A startup building advanced AI sales and support agents for the real estate industry. As a Principal Software Engineer at Uniti AI, you will set the technical direction and lead the development of our core platform spanning real-time communication, automation, and large-scale AI-driven workflows. You'll architect and deliver high-impact systems, guide engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with product, AI, and go-to-market teams to ensure our technology consistently delivers measurable value. Your work will shape a reliable, scalable foundation that supports rapid growth, drives customer adoption, and accelerates the long-term success of our AI agents.
Responsibilities
This role entails playing a critical role in the development of our AI-powered lead and customer management product.
- Own and lead the design, development, and deployment of major product features across our AI-driven lead management stack.
- Make key technical decisions on architecture, infrastructure, and scaling.
- Drive rapid iteration and experimentation: ship fast, learn fast, and iterate.
- Collaborate directly with founders to shape product direction and technical strategy.
- Debug and solve problems across the stack, no "not my job" mentality.
- Set the engineering bar: code quality, testing, reviews, and best practices.
- Build and manage strong working relationships with technical counterparts. Mentor and share knowledge with peers, creating a positive atmosphere amongst the team.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback while quickly actioning feedback from code reviews conducted of your code.
- Influence decision-making through presentation of data-centric business topics.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7-12 years experience as a software engineer building and shipping production quality code
- Experience with open source languages such as Python and TypeScript
- Experience with writing and shipping reliable, scalable, and efficient code, with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, in partnership with all appropriate reviewers, in manageable pieces with relevant documentation and test plans
- Experience with software design and architecture
- Experience with AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code
- Role is flexible/hybrid
- Fluency in English is required
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience writing code in Python
- Experience writing code in React.js
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Client/partner-facing and/or experience communicating to an audience
- Experience working in highly collaborative environments
- Experience working on multi-person code bases including open source or personal projects
- Experience contributing to developer and platform documentation
What We Offer
- Competitive salary with equity options
- Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%
- Snacks, a generous tech budget, unlimited vacation, and company outings
Engineering Leadership work from LinkedIn, X, Reddit and Upwork, in one list.
Each morning you get everything that fits, strongest first.
Engineering Leadership
Find me workBy the team behind techroles.