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Open nowPosted 598 days ago

Staff Software Engineer

Merge14 open roles

Pay
$225,000 – $260,000 a year
Where
New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
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12.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Merge postings stay open a median of 39 days.

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  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.1%7 days
  4. 19.1%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 52.7%60 days
This job: posted 598 days ago

Merge median: 39 days open

The posting

Merge is the leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Our platform offers three core products: Merge Unified, which enables businesses to add hundreds of integrations to their products with a single API, Merge Agent Handler, which empowers AI agents with secure access to thousands of third-party tools, and Merge Gateway, the control plane for running AI in production. Merge's enterprise-grade platform handles the entire integration lifecycle, from authentication and security to monitoring and maintenance. Thousands of companies trust Merge to accelerate product development, unblock sales, reduce customer churn, and save engineering resources—allowing them to focus on their core product.

What you will do:

- Drive roadmapping and architecture discussions

- Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code

- Lead Merge's most impactful projects from initial inception to production

- Unblock and support your team of peers including engineers, designers, product managers, and business operators

The ideal candidate will have:

- 7 - 10+ years of full-time software engineering experience

- Experience with frameworks (Django, Rails, Spring, etc.)

- Extensive knowledge of SQL databases (Postgres preferred)

Example projects you might work on:

- Scaling Core Systems: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in our data syncing engine, lead large-scale migrations to more efficient technologies and storage solutions, and drive initiatives to increase system throughput

- Product Innovation: Design flexible syncing paradigms that support advanced customization across model normalization, scheduling, data filtering, and API rate limit handling

- New Revenue Streams: Partner with Product to ideate, prototype, and validate entirely new product lines or feature categories that unlock growth opportunities

Compensation

- The cash compensation range for this role is $225,000 - $260,000

- Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, and certifications. In addition to cash compensation, all full time employees receive an equity compensation package

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Benefits

- Unlimited PTO + 10 company holidays

- Pre-Tax commuter benefits

- 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance

- 401K Plan

- $200 one-time home office stipend

- In office snacks and free dinner when working past 7pm

- Annual company offsites and quarterly team events. Past locations have included: Nashville, Sonoma, and the Hudson Valley

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