Staff Software Engineer, Product

Holly is an HR platform built for city and county governments to modernize how they hire, classify, and manage their workforce. The Staff Software Engineer, Product will set technical direction across the product, own architecture spanning data, backend, frontend, and AI systems, and ship full-stack features. The role also involves building dependable AI-powered experiences, creating data-rich product interfaces, and raising engineering standards across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own features end-to-end, from idea to production data model, backend, frontend, and rollout
• Partner with the founders to scope work, make tradeoffs, and drive delivery
• Lead high-impact projects that directly unlock customer value and revenue
• Set technical direction for major initiatives tradeoffs, sequencing, and the quality bar
• React with TanStack (Start, Query) our preferred stack, and where we're headed
• TypeScript, end-to-end even infrastructure is via Pulumi
• AI and agents LLM features, tool-calling, and agentic workflows (Vercel AI SDK, Vercel Eve, VoltAgent)
• Postgres Drizzle
• Background jobs and durable workflows / workers (e.g. Trigger.dev)
• Shadcn/ui Tailwind
• Dash0, Sentry for monitoring & observability
• Build LLM-powered and agentic features retrieval, tool-calling, structured extraction, and streaming
• Work in our AI stack and set the patterns for how we build AI at Holly
• Make AI features dependable: evaluation, guardrails, and handling non-deterministic model output
• Design pipelines that ingest, validate, and normalize messy government workforce data
• Build fast, usable interfaces over large datasets search, filter, and performance-minded rendering Turn imperfect real-world inputs into product surfaces people trust
• Set strong defaults through code review, reliability and monitoring, and CI/CD
• Establish pragmatic standards that keep us shipping fast without breaking things testing where it matters, clean interfaces, docs