Arbor
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StaffSoftwareEngineer
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“Staff Software Engineer at Arbor. Own features end-to-end. Ship predictably”
Industry & Context.
Clarity through chaos
On-call comfort
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years shipping production software, Early engineer at seed/Series A startup, Production experience in voice/audio, LLM apps, or data/insights pipelines, Fluent in Python/FastAPI + TypeScript/React, Shipped against flaky third-party APIs, Working knowledge of LLM app development, AWS or GCP with multi-tenant SaaS security instincts
Nice to Have
Staff/tech-lead IC ready to grow into eng lead, Voice agent stack, Production agentic LLM workflows, Data/analytics depth, On-call comfort on a small team
What You'll Do.
Own features end-to-end
Communicate credible with enterprise VP of Ops
Communicate async with remote CTO
Build AI for frontline enterprise
Full Job Description
WE UNLOCK GROUND TRUTH FOR THE ENTERPRISES THAT POWER THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. Billions of critical conversations happen every day in retail, hospitality, food service, logistics, and beyond — with customers and employees. Historically, these insights disappear the moment they're spoken. Arbor turns in-person conversations into executive-grade strategic intelligence. We're signing real enterprise contracts in industries that power the global economy. The opportunity is massive, the problems are unsolved, and we need product-obsessed builders to join on our journey. Must-haves - 5+ years shipping production software, including time as an early engineer at a seed/Series A startup - Full-stack generalist who owns features end-to-end with sharp product judgment — knows what to build, what to cut, when to push back - Ships predictably and communicates clearly; credible with an enterprise VP of Ops on a customer call and async with a remote CTO - Production experience in at least one of voice/audio, LLM apps, or data/insights pipelines (Umi is all three) - Fluent in Python/FastAPI + TypeScript/React; moves across frontend, backend, and infra in a single PR - Has shipped against flaky third-party APIs under latency/reliability pressure (telephony, real-time audio, payments, etc.) - Working knowledge of LLM app development: prompts, structured output, retrieval, evals, and non-deterministic systems that hold up in prod - AWS or GCP with multi-tenant SaaS security instincts (data isolation, PII, SOC 2) - Excited to be a foundational hire building AI for frontline enterprise Nice-to-haves - Staff/tech-lead IC ready to grow into eng lead within ~12 months - Voice agent stack (LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi, Retell, or custom on Twilio/Deepgram/ElevenLabs) + speech fundamentals (ASR, TTS, diarization, VAD) - Production agentic LLM workflows: tool use, multi-step, eval-driven - Data/analytics depth: warehouse modeling, DBT, owning an insights pipeline - On-call comfort on a small team — ha
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