Senior Staff Software Engineer
Aircall is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Madrid, Spain. Level rates it ; you can apply on Aircall.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions Node.js, TypeScript and AWS among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Aircall has 76 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Lead software engineering initiatives on backend systems and architecture for an AI-powered communications platform.
Our momentum comes from a simple idea: help teams work smarter, not harder. Aircall’s AI Voice Agent automates routine calls, AI Assist streamlines post-call work, and AI Assist Pro delivers real-time guidance so people can do their best work. The result is higher revenue, faster resolutions, and teams that scale with confidence.
Aircall is headquartered in Paris, our European HQ, with a strong North American presence anchored in Seattle, our North American HQ, and teams across Madrid, London, Berlin, San Francisco, New York City, Sydney, and Mexico City. We’ve built a product customers love and a business that’s scaling quickly, backed by world-class investors and driven by rapid AI innovation across multiple product lines.At Aircall, you’ll join a company in motion. We’re ambitious, product-driven, and execution-focused, with visible impact, fast decisions, and real growth.
How we work at Aircall: We’re customer-obsessed, data-driven, and focused on delivering meaningful outcomes. We value ownership, continuous learning, and thoughtful speed. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-moving environment where trust and impact matter, you’ll feel at home here.
We are looking for an engaged and passionate Staff Engineer to join our growing engineering department and be a technical leader across our engineering teams. As a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for driving influence across teams and domains, leading solution delivery on cross-functional and strategic initiatives, and serving as a technical leader within the engineering organization. You will ensure the set quality standards and drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, security, and DevOps. Quality, excellence, and agility drive our delivery processes and you will help us level these up. Using NodeJS and Typescript back-end stacks, appropriate for each requirement, but always hosted on AWS, we build added value and resilient services on top of voice and fully integrate with our customers’ business critical tools (CRM, Helpdesk, E-Commerce, …).
How we rate this
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Aircall rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Pay
- Typical software engineer job
- $168k
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- Tell me about a project where backend was part of your work. What did you do?
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- Tell me about a project where devops was part of your work. What did you do?
- What's a project where you used Node.js hands-on?
- Walk me through how you've used TypeScript in your day-to-day work.
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- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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