Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
Archer · San Jose, CA
$180,000–$215,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
San Jose, CA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack staff engineering role focused on building airline operations software for an electric aviation company. The work spans backend infrastructure, API and database design, and AI-integrated front-end and mobile applications, including productizing machine learning models developed by an internal research team. Best suited to generalist engineers with a broad shipping history who are comfortable owning the entire development lifecycle with minimal design support.
Senior level · 5+ years · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title says 'Staff Software Engineer' but the requirements — 5+ years of experience, full-stack ownership, end-to-end product delivery — are consistent with a Senior individual contributor rather than a true Staff-level role with cross-team technical direction. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
The posting states '0 to 1 Staff Software Engineers', which appears to mean the team is hiring zero or one person — an unusual phrasing that may indicate a highly selective or exploratory search.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'Bachelors or Masters Degree in an engineering discipline (or multiple pieces of evidence of outstanding individual technical achievement).' Because an alternative non-degree path is offered, this is a borderline call; however, the primary framing is a formal degree requirement, so Bachelors is recorded as the minimum. Hiring managers should note the stated exception for demonstrated individual achievement.
The bonus qualifications section lists Kubernetes (k8s), S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda, Docker, and Temporal — all marked as preferred. 'Datadock' appears in the same list but is not a recognized canonical tool name and may be a typo or internal term; it has been omitted.
AI/ML integration (implementing and productizing ML/deep learning algorithms, voice agents) is called out with firm language in the requirements section and is marked as required.
Mobile development appears only in the bonus qualifications section and is marked as preferred.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend development, front-end development, mobile development.
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