Senior Staff Engineer

What you will own:

• Build and scale core components of Turing’s vetting platform, with initial focus on:
  • AI Interviewer
  • Task-based vetting platform
  • Fraud and integrity checks
• Design platform-level systems rather than siloed point solutions, with strong emphasis on extensibility, reuse, and long-term maintainability
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Operations to translate ambiguous business problems into scalable technical systems
• Lead architecture and implementation for high-scale, high-reliability user-facing and internal workflows
• Improve system quality across UX, performance, observability, and developer velocity
• Help establish technical direction, engineering standards, and execution rigor for a fast-moving, AI-forward org
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar on engineering craftsmanship, systems thinking, and speed of execution

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong depth in backend/platform systems
• Experience building and scaling complex product or platform systems used in production
• Strong systems design skills, with the ability to think in platforms, primitives, and reusable abstractions rather than one-off features
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments and convert evolving requirements into clean technical approaches
• Strong product instinct and user empathy; able to balance architecture quality with business speed
• Experience working on workflow systems, evaluation platforms, marketplaces, trust & safety, identity/fraud, or AI-powered products is a strong plus
• Familiarity with modern AI/LLM-powered systems and the ability to apply them pragmatically in production workflows
• Track record of driving high-impact initiatives end-to-end across cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong communication skills and a high-ownership mindset

What great looks like:

• Can independently