About the Team

At AudioEye, we believe access to digital content is a fundamental right, not a privilege. Our mission is clear: eliminate every barrier to digital accessibility so that everyone, regardless of ability, can experience the web without limitations.

We are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are driven by purpose and impact. Every challenge we tackle moves us closer to a future where creating accessible experiences is the standard. If you’re looking for meaningful work where you can drive real change, influence how people with disabilities experience the internet, and be part of a mission that matters, AudioEye is the place for you.

About the Role

The Staff Engineer role helps to drive the technical direction of AudioEye’s platform and tackles complex challenges in digital accessibility. The position is responsible for designing and building large-scale, reliable systems that detect, remediate, and prevent accessibility issues across millions of websites, using AI and agentic development as a core part of how the work gets done. It blends architecture, hands-on development, and technical leadership to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and performant.

This role collaborates closely with the Product and Design teams to deliver systems that create measurable impact for customers and end users. The Staff Engineer mentors junior engineers on the team, helps shape the technical roadmap, and makes decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability. It requires strong ownership, autonomy, and a focus on solving meaningful technical problems at scale.

How you’ll Contribute:

Technically lead one or more engineering teams through needs assessment, system design, implementation, and operations automation
Drive the technical roadmap, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
Partner with Product, Design, and engineers to build systems that help customers respond quickly to risk, while keeping reliability, security, and data consistency high
Build web-scale systems with strong grounding in service-oriented architecture, data modeling, performance, and end-to-end delivery
Understand customer and end-user needs and turn them into measurable value
Own problems across stacks, teams, and roles, with a bias for action
Use AI coding assistants and agentic workflows daily to design, build, test, and operate software without lowering the quality bar. Delegate to agents, then review, verify, and take accountability for the output
Evaluate new AI development tools and adopt those that measurably improve delivery
Mentor and coach engineers on requirements, system design, problem-solving, and practical AI-assisted development, including prompting, context management, and knowing when not to trust the output
Help define team standards for responsible AI use across code review, testing, security, and data handling
Find opportunities to build AI capabilities into our products and internal tooling
Build a culture of quality, high standards, and engineering excellence

Who you are:

10+ years of engineering experience with design, implementation, and operations of critical systems
Demonstrated success working in cross-functional environments, advocate for tight collaboration between engineering, user experience, and product teams, and are comfortable making engineering and system-level decisions and tradeoffs
Proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, including React and Node.js
Experienced with relational, NoSQL, and document/object storage
Proven record of solving deep problems in distributed systems and real-time data technologies
Built and operated secure, compliant, scalable systems behind high-impact user experiences
Led large projects across multiple teams and mentored both junior and senior engineers
Collaborate tightly with Product and UX, and are comfortable making system-level tradeoffs
Hands-on fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development, with concrete examples of how it changed how you build and ship
Sound judgment on where AI helps and where it adds risk, and the discipline to validate generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability
Have coached other engineers, including senior ones, to adopt AI-assisted workflows
Thrive on autonomy and ownership, and adapt quickly as tools and practices change
Model good engineering behavior, practices, and processes

Our Values:

Relentlessly Prioritize the Customer
Own Outcomes
Be Straightforward
Act Now & Iterate
Grit
Decide with Data
Hire and Develop A Players
Be Coachable
Organize and Plan
Expect and Embrace Change

Benefits and Perks:

Work with a talented but humble team
Competitive compensation and equity
Weekly paid family meal
401k, medical, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible PTO Policy
15.5 company-paid holidays including Juneteenth, MLK Day and a 1-week company shut down
To support remote work conditions, AudioEye provides each employee a one-time stipend of $300

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All AudioEye recruiting email communications will always come from the @greenhouse.io domain or audioeye.com. Any outreach claiming to be from AudioEye via other sources should be ignored.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We embrace equal employment opportunity. AudioEye is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, abilities, and seek to ensure that all candidates have the opportunity to showcase their skills and qualifications during the hiring process. Please email [email protected] if you require an accommodation.

Notice to Staffing Agencies: It is our policy that any and all contact with third party staffing vendors come through our Talent Acquisition department directly. We have established a preferred network of staffing partners that we engage with if and when we deem necessary. We ask that staffing agencies refrain from contacting our executives, hiring managers, or employees directly. Unsolicited resumes and inquiries will not be considered or responded to. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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