Staff/Principal Software Engineer

Uniti AI — New York City Metropolitan Area (Hybrid) Uniti AI is a New York City–based Series A startup building advanced AI sales and support agents for the real estate industry. As a Principal Software Engineer at Uniti AI, you will set the technical direction and lead the development of our core platform spanning real-time communication, automation, and large-scale AI-driven workflows. You'll architect and deliver high-impact systems, guide engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with product, AI, and go-to-market teams to ensure our technology consistently delivers measurable value. Your work will shape a reliable, scalable foundation that supports rapid growth, drives customer adoption, and accelerates the long-term success of our AI agents. Responsibilities This role entails playing a critical role in the development of our AI-powered lead and customer management product. - Own and lead the design, development, and deployment of major product features across our AI-driven lead management stack. - Make key technical decisions on architecture, infrastructure, and scaling. - Drive rapid iteration and experimentation: ship fast, learn fast, and iterate. - Collaborate directly with founders to shape product direction and technical strategy. - Debug and solve problems across the stack, no "not my job" mentality. - Set the engineering bar: code quality, testing, reviews, and best practices. - Build and manage strong working relationships with technical counterparts. Mentor and share knowledge with peers, creating a positive atmosphere amongst the team. - Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback while quickly actioning feedback from code reviews conducted of your code. - Influence decision-making through presentation of data-centric business topics. Minimum Qualifications - 7-12 years experience as a software engineer building and shipping production quality code - Experience with open source languages such as Python and TypeScript - Experience with writing and shipping reliable, scalable, and efficient code, with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, in partnership with all appropriate reviewers, in manageable pieces with relevant documentation and test plans - Experience with software design and architecture - Experience with AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code - Role is flexible/hybrid - Fluency in English is required Preferred Qualifications - Experience writing code in Python - Experience writing code in React.js - Experience with AWS technologies - Client/partner-facing and/or experience communicating to an audience - Experience working in highly collaborative environments - Experience working on multi-person code bases including open source or personal projects - Experience contributing to developer and platform documentation What We Offer - Competitive salary with equity options - Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100% - Snacks, a generous tech budget, unlimited vacation, and company outings