Staff Software Engineer, Design Services at Havenly, Inc.
Denver, CO
$185,000–$220,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level engineering role focused on architecting AI-driven design features — including room generation, editing, and product recommendations — as well as owning the hardest technical problems across a 3D/Studio stack, an AI agent platform, and a TypeScript graph layer. The work also involves leading a gradual migration away from a legacy PHP monolith. Best suited to someone with cross-team architecture experience who has shipped AI-backed product features and can reason through model, data, and latency tradeoffs.
Staff level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,300–15,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (9)
The role is framed as a Staff-level individual contributor — the posting explicitly says 'you've operated at a staff level' and describes setting technical direction through influence across multiple teams, with no mention of direct reports, hiring authority, or budget ownership. It was classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021), but the cross-team architectural scope makes 11-3021 a plausible runner-up.
The Must-haves section gates on full-stack fundamentals (web, services, data, infrastructure) and having built or shipped AI-backed product features, but names no specific technologies as hard requirements. TypeScript and LLMs are the closest to hard gates given the role's explicit ownership of the TypeScript graph layer and the AI agent/LLM platform.
All named technologies (React, PHP, Node.js, GraphQL, Python, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Swift, Claude Code/Codex/Cursor) appear only in the 'Technologies we use' stack narrative section, which the posting explicitly labels as context rather than requirements — they are marked preferred accordingly.
Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor are listed together as the team's AI coding tools; they are interchangeable in this context and grouped under a single skill entry.
3D/graphics/rendering/computer-vision and native iOS (Swift) experience are explicitly called out under 'Nice to have.'
Experience modernizing a monolith toward services or a graph is also listed under 'Nice to have,' though it is a significant theme of the role's day-to-day work.
Remote is open to select US locations with a preference for Denver; the role is not fully open-remote nationwide but is treated as remote-eligible here.
No minimum years of experience is stated numerically; the Staff-level framing and cross-team architectural scope support a Staff seniority classification.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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