Staff Software Engineer at CaptivateIQ

Job description

CaptivateIQ is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance. We started by revolutionizing incentive compensation management, and now we're expanding our platform to solve broader sales planning challenges. Recognized by industry analysts like Forrester and G2 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia, ICONIQ, Accel, and Sapphire Ventures, we empower high-growth companies like Netflix, Figma, and Stripe with the flexibility and insights needed to drive revenue performance. About the Role The Modeling Platform team is the backbone of every product in CaptivateIQ's modeling suite and sits at the core of CaptivateIQ's multi-year product strategy. This team is a force multiplier — the components, interfaces, and infrastructure it builds are what let every product engineering team ship modeling experiences fast, without re-solving foundational problems each time. The team's surface area spans service-layer APIs, a modeling SDK, and extensible frontend components — and our goal is to evolve this into a self-service framework: simple enough to ship new modeling products at a fraction of today's build time, reliable enough that product teams don't think about the plumbing, and opinionated enough that they aren't re-solving the same problems every iteration. We're also building this as an AI-native platform, with first-class access and support for AI agents to build alongside human engineers. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction of that evolution — a technical leader with strong engineering chops who embodies CaptivateIQ's values of ownership, bias toward action, and delivering real impact. You'll set the architectural direction for how the platform evolves, drive the multi-year technical strategy (with your EM and senior EPD leadership as partners, not gatekeepers), and make the tradeoffs that determine how product teams build on top of it. It's a highly collaborative role — you'll work daily with cross-functional partners (Product, Design, EM) and with the product engineering teams building on the platform. You'll also partner closely with the SmartGrid team — CaptivateIQ's proprietary DAG-based computation engine that powers the framework underneath — helping shape architectural direction for the Modeling Platform Pillar as a whole. You'll drive technical alignment across teams, and invest deeply in coaching and developing engineers toward senior and staff-level impact. Job Location Remote - US Responsibilities Own the technical direction of the modeling platform's framework and SDK layer, partnering closely with the SmartGrid team on the underlying computation engine Own and evolve the platform's framework, SDK, and interfaces — including agentic/tool-based interfaces for AI consumers — turning today's API surface into a self-service framework with the extensibility points that let internal teams build modeling products fast Make the platform-level tradeoffs that shape it: what belongs in the framework vs. a product team's responsibility, build vs. buy, refactor vs. patch, flexibility vs. opinionated speed Operate with high ownership and autonomy — drive ambiguous or contested decisions forward by pulling in the right stakeholders early rather than letting them stall, and own the outcomes months later, good or bad Set the multi-year technical strategy for the modeling platform, in partnership with your EM, PM, Design, and senior EPD leadership Drive technical alignment across teams — build the credibility and relationships that align consuming product teams around the platform's roadmap Stay hands-on as a backend-primary fullstack engineer — the platform spans backend APIs, SDKs, and the frontend components product teams extend and build modeling experiences on top of Grow and develop engineers on the team — coach toward senior and staff-level impact, set the technical bar through design leadership and review standards, and provide architectural guidance