Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Product
Decagon is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Product for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $200k-$400k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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About Decagon
Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences.
Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.
We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others.
We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team.
About the Team
The Enterprise Product team creates the platform that customers use to build, maintain, and improve their AI agents. We transform complex engineering work into intuitive self-serve products, making sophisticated AI capabilities accessible to both technical and non-technical Customer Experience teams. This team is core to Decagon’s ability to scale: the tools you build directly support agents for all our customers, each with unique workflows, data, and requirements.
About the Role
You'll be a technical leader for a full-stack product engineering team, shaping the platform that empowers customers to create and optimize their AI agents. This means working closely with the Agent Software Engineering and Agent PM teams to understand current workflows, then defining technical strategy and establishing patterns that scale those capabilities across our customer base. You'll work day-to-day with the core product and design teams, joining discovery, defining requirements, reviewing designs, and iterating through launch. Beyond building features, you'll mentor engineers as the team grows, supervising projects and providing technical direction for their work.
In this role, you will
Drive technical direction for the team, to build enterprise ready platform that scale with our customer base and features, by applying the right architectural principles and design patterns.
Lead complex initiatives from ambiguous requirements to shipped products
Create AI-powered tools that enable non-technical teams to create and manage sophisticated workflows without writing code
Build monitoring and analytics that surface actionable insights, helping customers identify where their agents can improve
Partner directly with customers and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and validate product direction
Mentor engineers and elevate team practices through code review, technical design, and knowledge sharing
Your background looks something like this
6+ years building full-stack software products, with demonstrated impact on technical direction and strong product thinking
Deep expertise in TypeScript and/orPython, with strong architecture and system design skills
Proven ability to design abstractions and platforms that serve diverse use cases elegantly
Track record of leading technical initiatives and driving consensus across teams
Experience balancing technical excellence with rapid iteration and customer needs
Strong product intuition and history of translating user feedback into technical solutions
History of mentoring engineers and establishing technical standards
Even better
Experience building security-sensitive product systems, such as authentication and data access controls.
Experience building and scaling developer tools, APIs, platforms, or infrastructure products
Familiarity with LLMs, AI agent systems, prompt engineering, or building products on top of AI capabilities
Familiarity with asynchronous programming and building scalable systems
Experience with observability, data visualization, or analytics products
History of establishing technical standards, design patterns, or architectural principles adopted across teams
Compensation
$200K – $400K + Offers Equity
This range reflects the expected compensation for this role. Compensation within the range is determined based on experience, skills, and the scope of responsibilities, with flexibility for candidates who demonstrate exceptional impact.
In addition to base salary, we offer competitive equity. Final compensation may vary based on location within the United States.
Benefits
We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:
Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
Parental Leave
Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance
Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)
These benefits are described in more detail in Decagon’s policies, may vary by location, and can change at any time according to applicable compensation and benefits plans.
How we rate this
Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Product at Decagon rates 76 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Pay
- This job starts at
- $200k
- Typical software engineer job
- $168k
This posting starts 19% above the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs
Questions you could be asked
- How do you structure and test a prompt to get consistent output from a language model?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
- If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Prompt engineering and AI agents. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- 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.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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