Staff Software Engineer, Design Services

• Architecture for our AI design experiences from generating and editing room designs to product recommendations including how we evaluate output quality and keep a human accountable for what ships.
• The hardest least-defined initiatives across the 3D and Studio stack the AI agent platform the TypeScript graph layer and the services behind them.
• The path off our older PHP monolith toward the graph and modern services without stalling product work.

• In 90 days: youve gone deep on the platform shipped real improvements and taken ownership of one ambiguous high-impact area.
• In a year: youve defined and delivered the architecture for a major AI design capability raised the quality bar across the team and mentored engineers into bigger scope.

AI is core to both what we build and how we build it and were investing heavily in it beyond using AI to write code faster.

• Alongside our agent platform and LLM tooling were building an internal harness so agents can take on real engineering work like error resolution bug fixes and feature enhancements around the clock.
• The team ships with Claude Code Codex and Cursor.
• We want someone who can help architect this has built or shipped AI-backed product features can design eval sets and quality baselines and can reason about model data and latency tradeoffs.

• Youve operated at a staff level and owned architecture and execution for complex systems across more than one team or product area.
• Strong full-stack fundamentals across web services data and infrastructure.
• Youve built or shipped AI-backed product features and can evaluate their quality honestly.
• You set technical direction through influence and clear writing and you stay accountable for systems in production.

• 3D graphics rendering or computer-vision experience.
• Native iOS (Swift) experience.
• Experience modernizing a monolith toward services or a graph.

• AI: Claude Code Codex Cursor an internal agent platform and LLM tooling.
• Web and mobile: React/TypeScript customer and designer apps plus a native iOS app in Swift.
• Backend: PHP Node/TypeScript a TypeScript GraphQL layer Python.
• 3D and Studio: Python rendering pipelines our in-house 3D toolchain (Lunes) floorplan and visualization systems.
• Infrastructure: AWS Terraform Docker.

An initial phone screen followed by two to three rounds of interviews with the team to confirm technical skill personal fit and role alignment.

• Location: open to remote candidates in select US locations with a preference for Denver.
• Compensation: $185000 to $220000 depending on experience. This role is also eligible for company equity.
• Benefits: generous PTO volunteer days off medical dental vision and disability coverage a 401(k) with company match free design services furniture discounts and merchandise credits.
• Havenly is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Application deadline: Applications are open through September 30 2026. This deadline may be extended; if it is this posting will be updated to reflect the new date.