Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nextiva is reimagining how businesses connect through an AI-powered, conversation-centric customer experience and team collaboration platform. The Staff AI Software Engineer will design, build, and launch AI-focused capabilities while owning initiatives end to end and contributing hands-on production code. The role involves Python, distributed systems, system design, and collaboration with internal teams and external partners such as Google Gemini.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and launch new AI-focused engineering capabilities and modules
- Own engineering initiatives end to end, from early-stage solutioning and architecture through implementation and launch
- Remain deeply hands-on with software development and contribute production code
- Build solutions using Python and apply strong distributed-systems engineering principles
- Participate in system design, architecture, and solutioning discussions with engineering teams
- Work closely with the Google Gemini team on initiatives designed to bring NextIQ capabilities into Gemini
- Collaborate with other external technology partners to extend Nextiva capabilities into their environments
- Partner with U.S.-based Nextiva product and engineering teams on new initiatives
- Work with teams supporting NextOS to help bring NextIQ capabilities into other areas of the Nextiva ecosystem
- Navigate ambiguous, early-stage technical problems and translate them into practical engineering solutions
- Take accountability for designing, building, and successfully launching the capabilities you own
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools as part of day-to-day development to improve productivity and accelerate coding, problem-solving, testing, and engineering workflows
- Apply strong engineering judgment when working with AI-generated code or recommendations, including appropriate validation, testing, and technical review
- Understand how AI capabilities can be integrated into larger products and partner environments while maintaining scalable system design
- Stay current with evolving AI-assisted software engineering practices and apply them where they improve engineering effectiveness
- Contribute directly to AI-related initiatives involving NextIQ and partner environments such as Google Gemini
Skills
- **7–10+ years of relevant software engineering experience**, with strong hands-on experience building and delivering production software
- Very strong hands-on Python engineering skills
- Strong system design capabilities
- Experience designing and building distributed systems
- Demonstrated experience owning and launching software modules or capabilities end to end
- Experience taking technical initiatives from solutioning and design through development and launch
- Ability and willingness to remain hands-on with coding at Staff Engineer level
- Experience contributing to architecture and technical solutioning discussions
- Ability to work effectively on new initiatives where requirements and technical approaches may still be evolving
- Ability to collaborate effectively with internal engineering teams and external technology partners
- Ability to work remotely within a time zone reasonably aligned with the Arizona-based team
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools as part of day-to-day development to improve productivity and accelerate coding, problem-solving, testing, and engineering workflows
- Apply strong engineering judgment when working with AI-generated code or recommendations, including appropriate validation, testing, and technical review
- Understand how AI capabilities can be integrated into larger products and partner environments while maintaining scalable system design
- Stay current with evolving AI-assisted software engineering practices and apply them where they improve engineering effectiveness
- Contribute directly to AI-related initiatives involving NextIQ and partner environments such as Google Gemini
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Comfortable working through ambiguity and early-stage technical challenges
- Able to move effectively between system design and hands-on implementation
- Strong problem-solving and technical decision-making skills
- Collaborative approach to working across engineering teams and external partners
- Ability to take ownership of a capability through design, build, and launch
- Self-directed and comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor
- Experience operating as a Staff Engineer or at a comparable level in a similarly sized or slightly larger organization
- Experience building new products, modules, or technical capabilities from the ground up
- Experience combining system-level design responsibilities with significant hands-on implementation
- Experience collaborating directly with external technology partners
- Experience working across distributed engineering teams
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and telemedicine coverage
- Life, disability, and supplemental indemnity plans
- Flexible Time Off for salaried employees
- PTO for hourly employees
- Paid Sick Time
- Paid Parental Bonding Leave
- Holiday pay
- 401(k) with company match
- Health Savings Accounts with company contributions
- Dependent Care FSA
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Comprehensive wellness initiatives
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Career advancement
- Depending on the position, compensation may include incentives or bonuses
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