Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CaptivateIQ is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction and multi-year strategy for its Modeling Platform. The role involves evolving its framework, SDK, APIs, and AI interfaces, aligning partner teams, and coaching engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the modeling platform's framework and SDK layer, partnering closely with the SmartGrid team on the underlying computation engine
• Own and evolve the platform's framework, SDK, and interfaces — including agentic/tool-based interfaces for AI consumers — turning today's API surface into a self-service framework with the extensibility points that let internal teams build modeling products fast
• Make the platform-level tradeoffs that shape it: what belongs in the framework vs. a product team's responsibility, build vs. buy, refactor vs. patch, flexibility vs. opinionated speed
• Operate with high ownership and autonomy — drive ambiguous or contested decisions forward by pulling in the right stakeholders early rather than letting them stall, and own the outcomes months later, good or bad
• Set the multi-year technical strategy for the modeling platform, in partnership with your EM, PM, Design, and senior EPD leadership
• Drive technical alignment across teams — build the credibility and relationships that align consuming product teams around the platform's roadmap
• Stay hands-on as a backend-primary fullstack engineer — the platform spans backend APIs, SDKs, and the frontend components product teams extend and build modeling experiences on top of
• Grow and develop engineers on the team — coach toward senior and staff-level impact, set the technical bar through design leadership and review standards, and provide architectural guidance that scales beyond your own output
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime

Skills

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with progression into staff-level technical leadership
• Strong Python fundamentals with production experience in Django or similar Python web frameworks
• Demonstrated experience owning a platform or framework layer — not just a service — that multiple internal teams built on top of
• Strong backend engineering foundation with hands-on experience building frontend components that other engineering teams consume, extend, and build on top of
• Track record of setting multi-year technical strategy for a platform or major system, with evidence of the strategy shipping and delivering impact
• Track record of growing engineers to the next level — mentoring, coaching, and leading their technical development toward senior and staff-level impact
• Familiarity with Go, for collaboration with the SmartGrid computation engine team
• Experience designing interfaces for AI agent consumption — tool-use schemas, MCP-style protocols, structured function-calling interfaces
• Familiarity with columnar data formats (Apache Arrow, Parquet) and OLAP storage engines (ClickHouse, DuckDB, or similar)
• Working knowledge of DAG-based or dependency-graph-driven computation systems
• Experience designing SDKs or self-service developer platforms consumed by multiple internal teams
• Experience at a B2B SaaS company during periods of significant growth or platform expansion
• Familiarity with sales performance management, incentive compensation, or adjacent enterprise domains

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs, with roughly 75% coverage for dependents.
• Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days.
• Annual stipends for professional development and caretaking needs.
• Annual work anniversary bonuses that grow as your tenure does.
• Retirement savings (US-only): a 401(k) plan.
• The latest Apple hardware.
• Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that celebrate shared identities and support DEI goals.
• Remote work.

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