Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AnswersNow is a company focused on revolutionizing autism therapy through an innovative virtual ABA therapy platform. They are seeking a Staff Engineer specializing in AI/ML to lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure the health of the engineering organization while integrating machine learning models into their core platform.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the architecture of our core platform: React frontend, Node.js/Express APIs, Postgres, and AWS ECS infrastructure
- Drive our JavaScript → TypeScript migration, establishing patterns, tooling, and standards the team can follow
- Design and extend our ETL pipeline and config-driven AI integration framework, enabling engineers to ship AI-powered features faster and more reliably
- Lead technical design reviews, create architecture decision records (ADRs), and ensure engineering decisions are documented and defensible
- Identify and resolve systemic technical debt — not just flagging it, but owning the plan to address it
- Define and execute the technical strategy for integrating ML/AI models into our core platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
- Mentor engineers across all levels — pair, review, coach, and grow the team's collective capability
- Establish and maintain engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, observability, on-call runbooks, and incident response
- Serve as a technical resource and thought partner for product, clinical, and business stakeholders
- Help define the engineering hiring bar and participate in the interview process
- Partner with engineering leadership and product to scope, sequence, and de-risk large technical initiatives
- Lead by example on production support — define runbooks, own post-mortems, and drive systemic fixes from incidents
- Work across UI, API, DB, and infrastructure layers with genuine depth in at least two
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level role
- Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript in a production full-stack environment
- Strong command of React, Node.js/Express, and Postgres — you can reason about performance, reliability, and maintainability at each layer
- Proven experience designing and owning distributed systems or data pipeline architectures on AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda experience valued)
- Track record of technical mentorship — you've made engineers around you measurably better
- Excellent written and verbal communication; you can write an architecture doc, run a design review, and brief a non-technical executive in the same day
- Experience working in or leading engineering at a growth-stage startup — you understand the balance between velocity and sustainability
- Significant experience architecting and deploying production-grade ML/AI systems, including LLM integration and model lifecycle management
- Familiarity with ETL pipelines, AI/LLM integration patterns, or data-intensive systems is a strong plus
- Experience with healthcare or regulated data environments (HIPAA compliance, PHI handling)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, or streaming pipelines
- Prior experience as an engineering manager who returned to an IC track (player-coach background welcome)
- Contributions to open source or engineering blog posts / conference talks
Benefits
- Fully remote – work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Flexible hours with an async-friendly team culture
Company Overview
AnswersNow is an app that revolutionized autism support by utilizing the use of technology. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://getanswersnow.com.