Senior/Staff Engineer
Merge
Senior/Staff Engineer
Merge
Unified HR and payroll integrations API
Merge is the leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies.
Our platform offers two core products: Merge for Product, and Merge for Workforce. Merge for Product enables teams to ship AI features and integrations at massive scale. Merge for Workforce helps engineering teams govern AI access at the company level. Merge's enterprise-grade platform handles the entire integration lifecycle, from authentication and security to monitoring and maintenance. Thousands of companies trust Merge to accelerate product development, unblock sales, reduce customer churn, and save engineering resources—allowing them to focus on their core product.
Who are we looking for?
Merge is looking for a driven Sr/Staff Engineer, Agent Handler to build the next generation of Merge through externally facing, AI-native products powered by large language models, while also owning the foundational systems that enable AI-driven features and operational leverage across the company. You’ll guide a high-impact team through fast-moving problem spaces, partnering closely with product, design, and go-to-market to turn cutting-edge AI into real customer and business value.
What you will do:
Lead and foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and technical rigor
Define and execute the roadmap for AI-driven products and internal tooling to improve integration development, monitoring, and automation
Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to build intelligent, user-facing tools that differentiate Merge’s platform
Ensure AI models and systems are deployed with scalability, performance, and security in mind
The Ideal candidate will have:
1+ years leading engineers and technical projects, with previous 7 - 10+ years of IC experience in software or ML/AI systems
Strong track record of leading teams building AI-powered products, ML platforms, or data-intensive applications
Familiarity with technologies and frameworks such as Python, Django, React, Postgres, AWS, and ML/AI libraries
Product-minded engineering leader who can balance research/experimentation with shipping high-impact features
Strong collaborator able to align AI-driven initiatives with broader company and customer goals
Compensation
The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000-$245,000
Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications. In addition to cash compensation, all employees receive an equity compensation package
Merge on the Rise:
Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups 2023
G2 Fastest Growing Products 2024
Benefits
Unlimited PTO + 10 company holidays
100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance
401K Plan
Free dinner when working past 7pm
Annual company offsites and quarterly team events. Past locations have included: Nashville, Sonoma, and the Hudson Valley
Merge.dev provides a unified API that lets businesses connect hundreds of HR and Payroll systems, enabling third-party integrations in a single interface. Its platform delivers normalized, continuously synced data for each integration, avoiding data transformations and API quirks, and it will build new integrations at no extra charge while offering a searchable logs toolbox, automated issue detection, and customizable alerts. This differentiates Merge.dev by replacing many separate integrations with one API, while maintaining data consistency and providing built-in support tools that reduce maintenance work. The goal is to help companies embed HR and Payroll data from multiple providers into their applications, saving time, resources, and engineering effort.
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