Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
A senior full stack engineering role in a product-led SaaS environment remains one of the clearest vantage points for understanding how customer-facing software, APIs, and platform reliability intersect. This listing stands out for its emphasis on modern web development alongside infrastructure fundamentals, reflecting how many SaaS companies now expect senior engineers to influence both product surfaces and the systems that keep them dependable.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work described maps to durable themes: shaping architecture, scoping high-impact initiatives, and translating user needs into shipped capabilities. Exposure to React and TypeScript on the front end, paired with server-side development across Node.js and Python and deployment patterns using containers and Kubernetes, builds a toolkit that transfers across B2B and developer-first SaaS companies. The inclusion of mentoring and advising leadership also signals a pathway toward staff-level impact in SaaS org structures.
This role is best suited to engineers who enjoy balancing hands-on delivery with technical direction, and who prefer working closely with peers and stakeholders to drive outcomes. It also fits someone comfortable moving between backend depth and pragmatic UI work, especially in a hybrid setup where collaboration and iteration happen in person as well as in code.
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Job Description
Location
New York City, NY
Employment Type
Full time
Compensation
- $200K – $250K • Offers Equity
About Standard Bots
Standard Bot’s mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users. Our user-facing applications and APIs directly empower individuals and developers to jump directly into solving their challenges without the need for a background in robotics or automation. A relentless focus on simplicity and ease of use brings this revolutionary potential to new users and industries.
What you'll do:
We’re looking for seasoned and skilled technical leaders to help architect the future of robotics through best in class, modern software engineering practices. As a Senior Software Engineer you will work with other engineers, organizational leaders, and users to advance the products which directly impact our users and unlock entirely new potential for them.
📍 Location and Benefits
This role is hybrid with 3 days/week onsite in our NYC office, centrally located near Grand Central Station. The office is fully equipped with robots for demos and testing!
Responsibilities:
Identify, scope, and drive high impact technical and user facing projects
Advise leadership on technical decisions and strategy
Mentor and advise other engineers as well as peers on technical and personal advancement
Drive technical decision making and implementation through hands-on and technically deep work
Tech Stack:
Front-end: React, Typescript
Back-end: Node.js, Python, C++
Kubernetes
Docker
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Who you are
We do not require or favor any background in robotics
We’re looking for engineers who are self driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful. We have no requirements for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply their expertise and experience in a new area.
Our ideal candidate will be open to doing approximately 70% back-end and 30% front-end work with flexibility to sway more towards one or the other, depending on current projects and team needs.
Skills you’ll bring:
Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 5-10 years of experience working in complex environments
Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact
Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers
Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed implementations or incumbent systems
Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds
Compensation and Benefits:
The salary range for this role is $200,000 to $250,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.
Compensation Range: $200K - $250K
