Staff/Principal Software Engineer

Uniti AI — New York City Metropolitan Area (Hybrid)
Uniti AI is a New York City–based Series A startup building advanced AI sales and support agents for the real estate industry. As a Principal Software Engineer at Uniti AI, you will set the technical direction and lead the development of our core platform spanning real-time communication, automation, and large-scale AI-driven workflows. You'll architect and deliver high-impact systems, guide engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with product, AI, and go-to-market teams to ensure our technology consistently delivers measurable value. Your work will shape a reliable, scalable foundation that supports rapid growth, drives customer adoption, and accelerates the long-term success of our AI agents.

Responsibilities
This role entails playing a critical role in the development of our AI-powered lead and customer management product.
- Own and lead the design, development, and deployment of major product features across our AI-driven lead management stack.
- Make key technical decisions on architecture, infrastructure, and scaling.
- Drive rapid iteration and experimentation: ship fast, learn fast, and iterate.
- Collaborate directly with founders to shape product direction and technical strategy.
- Debug and solve problems across the stack, no "not my job" mentality.
- Set the engineering bar: code quality, testing, reviews, and best practices.
- Build and manage strong working relationships with technical counterparts. Mentor and share knowledge with peers, creating a positive atmosphere amongst the team.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback while quickly actioning feedback from code reviews conducted of your code.
- Influence decision-making through presentation of data-centric business topics.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7-12 years experience as a software engineer building and shipping production quality code
- Experience with open source languages such as Python and TypeScript
- Experience with writing and shipping reliable, scalable, and efficient code, with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, in partnership with all appropriate reviewers, in manageable pieces with relevant documentation and test plans
- Experience with software design and architecture
- Experience with AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code
- Role is flexible/hybrid
- Fluency in English is required

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience writing code in Python
- Experience writing code in React.js
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Client/partner-facing and/or experience communicating to an audience
- Experience working in highly collaborative environments
- Experience working on multi-person code bases including open source or personal projects
- Experience contributing to developer and platform documentation
What We Offer
- Competitive salary with equity options
- Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%
- Snacks, a generous tech budget, unlimited vacation, and company outings