Staff Engineer

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Staff Engineer.

Dublin

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Most senior IC on the engineering team. You set the technical direction for the platforms everything else gets built on — event pipelines, agent orchestration, the CRM data model. You design, you ship, and you raise the floor on what the team is capable of.

What you'll do

• Design and own the critical systems: how data flows in, how agents reason over it, how decisions get back to customers.
• Pick the right level of abstraction. Avoid the wrong one. Push back when speed and quality fight each other.
• Mentor — design reviews, code reviews, pairing — without making yourself the bottleneck.
• Partner with the founders on the engineering roadmap; partner with GTM on the things customers actually need next.
• Help us hire the next wave of engineers. The bar starts with you.

What you bring

• 8+ years shipping production software, including time at Staff / Principal / Tech Lead level.
• You've led architecture for systems used at meaningful scale — and shipped them, not just diagrammed them.
• Deep on at least one of: backend distributed systems, AI / LLM systems, data infrastructure.
• Calm under load. You make systems and the people running them better at the same time.
• Hybrid out of Dublin. In person several days a week with the team.

Bonus

• Production experience with LLM agent systems — orchestration, retrieval, evals, cost / latency tuning.
• Built CRM, sales-tech, or pipeline platforms before.
• Open-source work, writing, or talks that show how you reason about systems.

How to apply

Email [email protected] with a short note: who you are, the systems you're proudest of, and what you'd want to architect first at Ahoy. We read every message.