Staff Software Engineer, Console

About this role

Lead technical direction for Deepgram’s self-serve developer platform, spanning its Console, Playground, account services, and developer tooling. The role combines cross-functional technical leadership with hands-on full-stack development to improve developer experience and product-led growth.

About the company

Deepgram builds speech-to-text and voice AI APIs that convert audio into text and power voice applications for developers and enterprises.

The team

Console team

Stack

What you'll do

• Set technical strategy and architecture for Console, Playground, account services, and developer tooling.
• Lead cross-functional projects from ambiguous concepts through launch.
• Build and ship full-stack features, including user interfaces, APIs, and backend services.
• Drive activation funnels, in-product upgrades, usage-based billing instrumentation, and PLG experiments.
• Develop AI-oriented developer experiences, including MCP servers, SDKs, and agent playgrounds.
• Identify systemic issues and lead durable solutions.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through reviews and technical guidance.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping customer-facing full-stack web applications.
• Technical leadership on large cross-functional projects with meaningful business impact.
• Strong modern frontend skills and command of web fundamentals and user experience.
• Backend experience designing APIs and customer-facing services in Python, Rust, Go, or similar.
• Experience making architectural decisions that scale with products and teams.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategy and prioritization.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices.
• Comfort with fast-paced startup work, iteration, and experimentation.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI-powered developer tools, playgrounds, SDK experiences, or ML evaluation UIs.
• Experience with agentic or voice AI integrations, MCP servers, or function-calling pipelines.
• Developer-tools PLG experience, including activation experiments, usage-based pricing, and upgrade flows.
• Experience with Postgres, schema design, and performance optimization at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Interest in Rust, LLM APIs, GPUs, and real-time audio systems.

Benefits

• Equity
• 10% annual bonus potential