Hiring: Staff Software Engineer Company: Forgepoint Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:31:03 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Kubernetes, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript About the job Experience: •7+ years of product engineering experience and a track record of designing, shipping, and operating important systems; experience across both a high-growth startup and a scaled engineering organization is a plus Required Skills: •This is a hands-on senior or staff-level individual-contributor role at the intersection of applied AI, product, and distributed systems. You'll take ambiguous customer problems and complex product initiatives, turn them into focused architectures, and ship simple, reliable systems in production. •You'll build AI workers across the stack, from customer-facing experiences to long-running agent workflows and integrations with legacy ERPs and CRMs. You'll lead 0→1 initiatives, improve agent performance and reliability, help set model and agent strategy, and evolve our infrastructure as customer usage and model capabilities grow. •Technical leadership at Forgepoint means writing and operating core product code while raising the bar for the team through clear technical writing, thoughtful code review, mentorship, and better developer tooling. Our stack is TypeScript end-to-end with React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, running on AWS and Kubernetes. •Lead complex product initiatives from customer discovery and technical design through implementation, rollout, and production operation •Turn broad product requirements into focused architecture documents, clear tradeoffs, and incremental execution plans •Build core AI product experiences and the agent workflows, tools, and integrations behind them •Improve agent performance, reliability, and cost as usage grows and new models arrive •Design and operate distributed systems, including queues, workers, observability, and failure recovery Qualifications: •You have 7+ years of product engineering experience and a track record of designing, shipping, and operating important systems; experience across both a high-growth startup and a scaled engineering organization is a plus •You are a strong systems thinker who can reduce a complex domain to clear boundaries and maintainable software •You have a product mindset: you learn how customers work, notice patterns, and connect technical decisions to customer value •You care deeply about code quality and reliability, but avoid abstraction or complexity for its own sake •You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical teammates and make others better through writing, code review, mentorship, and candid feedback •You form thoughtful opinions about fast-moving AI technology and choose models, architectures, and context strategies based on evidence •You are ambitious, resourceful, action-oriented, and team-first; you care about strengthening American manufacturing and are excited to work in person five days a week in NYC •Deep experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, or PostgreSQL •Revitalize an industry. Rebuild America's manufacturing backbone. •America builds satellites, jet engines, semiconductors, and more with world-class precision, but the software running factory offices is decades behind. Estimators, procurement teams, and engineers still lose hours to spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual data entry. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!