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title: "Staff Engineer"
company: "Edwin"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/edwin"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/edwin-staff-engineer-198c9d10-0eb3-4c55-a09f-61f1cd55d7c7"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/edwin/f795f9b9-4af5-4a9b-8ada-71f3f30a5d8b"
workplace: onsite
location: "Santa Monica"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: staff
role: software-engineering
region: other
skills: ["react", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-08-31T17:37:02.273Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-04T18:42:54.019Z
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# Staff Engineer

**Edwin** · Santa Monica

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/edwin/f795f9b9-4af5-4a9b-8ada-71f3f30a5d8b

## About Edwin

It combines the latest adaptive learning and Natural Language Understanding technology with pedagogical content as well as on-demand human instructors to offer its students affordable, personalized, 1:1 learning. Based in San Francisco, the company was funded by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Google Assistant Investments Program, and several other investors. Over 800 thousand students have improved their English with Edwin.

In early 2020 Edwin merged with MyBuddy.ai. The resulting company kept the name “Buddy.ai”. Headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on building a virtual English conversation partner for over 500 million children around the globe who are trying to learn English, but can't reach fluency because they lack genuine practice speaking the language. The company doubled down on its mobile app Buddy, the voice-based English tutor for kids, organically combining solutions developed by Buddy.ai and Edwin.

## About the role

Edwin is building the modern financial operating system for local governments. Cities, counties, and special districts manage trillions of dollars using fragmented bank portals, legacy systems, and manual spreadsheets. We are replacing that infrastructure with an AI-powered platform that integrates banking, investing, spend management, and automated workflows into a single source of truth.

Backed by top-tier institutional VCs, Edwin is live with initial clients across the country. Local governments are underserved by every major financial platform. We are building the infrastructure they have never had.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead full-stack development across the Edwin product line, including the design and architecture of large-scale distributed systems.

You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that prioritize security, scalability, performance, and operational excellence while driving business outcomes.

This is a high impact role that requires both strategic thinking and hands-on execution, reporting directly to the CTO.

#### Responsibilities

- Lead full-stack development, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code

- Inform, design, and architect AI-enabled distributed systems that are highly scalable, reliable, secure, and optimized for correctness, accuracy, and performance

- Provide technical leadership, partnering with product, engineering, and stakeholders to align technical strategy with business goals while optimizing project scope, timelines, and deliverables

- Establish and enforce best practices for system architecture, security, SOC 2 compliance, monitoring, and operational efficiency

- Drive continuous delivery, observability and incident management, with a strong focus on operational excellence

- Mentor and guide the engineering team, fostering a high-performing engineering culture

#### Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience, with at least 4 years in a senior, lead, or staff engineering role

- Leading engineering teams in startup environments from 0-1 and/or hyper-growth

- Proven experience designing, building, and operating AI-enabled distributed systems

- Expertise in TypeScript and Node

- Proficiency with React and the React ecosystem

- Track record of building secure, reliable, scalable, and high-performance systems with a focus on operational excellence

#### Bonus Qualifications

- Public sector, govtech, or regulated fintech experience

- Working knowledge of accounting and ERP systems, including banking, fund management, general ledger, and month-end close

#### Pay and Benefits

- Annual base salary range of $190,000–$225,000, dependant on experience and demonstrated scope of impact

- Early-stage equity in a fast-growing startup

- Unlimited PTO

- Fully covered medical, dental, and vision

- The ability to build a polished product without legacy constraints

- A mission with real-world impact on how governments operate

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