What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer (Product Systems & Platform Engineering) position at EQUALS TRUE?
EQUALS TRUE started when a type design geek and a talent nerd decided to create real change in the technology industry workforce. Together, they built the first-in-industry authentic talent partner to help organizations build cultures and scale internationally with the best talent in the Americas.
We are the only organization in Latin America that was founded with a commitment to be inclusive, treat individuals fairly, pay them equally, and provide them with a great professional experience each day. From day one, EQUALS TRUE has been committed to inclusive hiring, wage equality, and delivering an exceptional professional experience. These values ground our business model and daily practices.
We’re different, awkward, techie, weird in all the right ways, and we work only with great people. If you’re looking for a remote-first career aligned with a true social mission and with companies that share your values, then let’s talk about our Staff Software Engineer role today. Here’s what you need to know about this position:
Location: Remote, LATAM
Engagement Type: Full-Time
The Work
(What you’ll be doing & Your Impact)
- Architect and build backend systems that combine AI-assisted workflows, product systems, and real-world operational environments
- Design scalable systems and orchestration patterns that support long-running, stateful processes across multiple systems and teams
- Build product experiences where AI supports human decision-making, automates repetitive workflows, and helps teams operate more efficiently
- Partner closely with operations, product, and design teams to understand operational complexity, edge cases, and real-world failure points
- Own technical direction, architectural decisions, and engineering best practices as the platform continues to scale
- Improve reliability, observability, auditability, and maintainability across production systems
- Mentor engineers through collaboration, technical discussions, and design reviews while helping raise the overall bar for engineering quality and systems thinking
Needed Expertise
(What you need to succeed in the role)
- 6 years of experience building and operating production software systems
- Strong backend engineering experience and comfort working across distributed, asynchronous, or event-driven systems
- Experience designing and owning complex systems end to end, including architectural decisions, technical trade-offs, and long-running workflow orchestration patterns
- Experience building AI-powered products, automations, AI agents, or LLM-assisted workflows in production, including familiarity with tools like Claude, OpenAI, or similar LLM platforms
- Strong product and systems thinking, with comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces with incomplete information
- Comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with operations, product, design, and engineering stakeholders
- Strong communication skills with a high degree of ownership, accountability, and autonomy
Not Required But Nice To Have Expertise
(What would be great for you to have)
- Experience designing systems in healthcare, fintech, or other operationally complex or regulated environments
- Understanding of auditability, compliance, or data privacy requirements such as HIPAA
- Experience integrating with legacy, unreliable, or third-party external systems
- Exposure to human-in-the-loop workflows or review-based operational systems
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, observability, or modern deployment workflows
Our Benefits & Perks
- We pay in USD through our platform that allows you to convert, allocate and disburse your salary as you want and into almost any currency that you choose
- Paid company holidays
- Medical, safety, and wellness benefits
- Technology benefits
- Business English language classes
- …and more perks being added each quarter
Interested? Great! Please send us your CV/Resume to start the conversation and learn more about each other. EQUALS TRUE is a global inclusive talent network of like-minded software engineers, agilists, and design thinkers. We build and develop safe, inclusive, equitable and balanced teams for companies that need to scale globally in a socially responsible way.
EQUALS TRUE is open to all qualified candidates. We never evaluate qualified people on anything other than their skills, work history, training, and ability to do the job. We respect the right of people to live the life they want without judgement. So we practice wage equality, create a culture of belonging, insist upon respect for all our people, make every effort to accommodate all disabilities, and work only with companies that share our values. We are proud to be a global equal opportunity employer. And as such we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, status as a veteran, or any other protected status. We also consider qualified applicants with non-violent and non-financial related criminal histories.
Additionally, EQUALS TRUE is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout our hiring processes. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know.