[Hiring] Staff Engineer @Artisan Management LLC

Role Description

This is a senior individual contributor role. You lead through technical direction, standards, and your own work, not through direct reports. You work across all teams and client engagements in the engineering organization. You set the technical bar, find risk early, and step in hands-on where a project needs you. This role is designed to grow into the Director of Engineering role. As you grow, you take on more organizational leadership, including delivery health, engineering strategy, and people leadership. Our engineers deliver with AI-assisted development under our Spec-Driven Development (SDD) playbook. You will show the organization how AI-assisted delivery is done well.

Key Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across client engagements: review architectures, solution designs, and key technical decisions.
• Act as technical lead on the highest-risk engagements, and work hands-on when a project needs it.
• Own the Spec-Driven Development playbook and AI-assisted development standards. Show them in your own work, measure adoption, and improve them with the teams.
• Own engineering standards: code quality, testing (our engineers own testing for their own work), security, and architecture decision records.
• Find delivery and technical risk early across all engagements, and work with team leads to fix it.
• Lead the technical side of presales: scoping, solution architecture, estimates, statements of work, and client workshops.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for clients.
• Mentor team leads and senior engineers, and raise the technical bar of the full organization.
• Define the technical hiring bar and run senior technical interviews.
• Support security and compliance work in engineering, including SOC 2 controls and evidence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years as a senior engineer, tech lead, or architect across several teams.
• Experience setting technical direction for several teams without direct authority.
• Experience in a consulting or professional services company: solution architecture, estimates, statements of work, and client delivery.
• Strong hands-on background in cloud-native systems on AWS, in both architecture and code.
• Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar), and experience leading AI adoption in an engineering team.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and team leads. People management experience is a plus.
• Clear written and verbal communication with executives, clients, and engineers.

Extra Credit

• Experience delivering generative AI solutions for clients (for example Amazon Bedrock, RAG, or agent frameworks).
• SOC 2 or similar compliance experience in an engineering organization.
• Platform engineering background: Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and automation platforms such as Spacelift.
• Experience with mobile or IoT delivery.
• AWS Professional certification.

Core Competencies

• Develops Talent - Builds the skills of engineers and team leads through mentoring and example.
• Drives Results - Delivers measurable outcomes, even when things are difficult.
• Decision Quality - Considers all relevant factors and uses good criteria to keep the organization moving forward.
• Manages Ambiguity - Operates well when the way forward is not clear.
• Customer Focus - Builds strong client relationships and delivers client-centric solutions.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and remote work environments.
• Robust benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401k matching.