Staff Backend Engineer

About Fireweave

Fireweave is building an AI Release Engineer for modern software teams helping engineering organizations understand release risk blast radius and rollout safety before code hits production.

About the role

Were looking for a staff-level full stack / backend engineer to join the founding team and help define both the product and technical foundation from the ground up. Youll work across frontend backend agent workflows integrations data systems and the context graph that powers Fireweaves release intelligence.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who can operate at staff level technically while still staying hands-on: making architecture decisions building core systems mentoring future engineers and translating ambiguous customer problems into simple reliable product experiences.

What youll do

• Own major product and architecture decisions across the stack
  
• Build core product experiences across frontend backend and agent workflows
  
• Design integrations with GitHub CI/CD systems feature flags deployments and observability tools
  
• Build scalable systems for context ingestion reasoning and release intelligence
  
• Work directly with founders and early customers to shape product direction
  
• Set engineering standards technical patterns and culture for the early team
  

Ideal profile

• Staff-level or strong senior full stack / backend engineering experience
  
• Deep ownership across product architecture and execution
  
• Strong backend and systems thinking with ability to build polished product experiences
  
• Comfortable with ambiguity fast iteration and 0 to 1 company building
  
• Experience with dev tools infra observability CI/CD distributed systems or AI agents is a strong plus