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# Staff Software Engineer

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/26753904ec10e85d

Eagle posts a staff FDE role to build for teams inside the company in New York, NY, at $150,000–$300,000 base, level with the staff+ FDE median of $225,000 across 388 postings with pay. Own the shared platform architecture and multi-tenant infrastructure underpinning Eagle’s software for civil engineering firms. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Eagle](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/eagle)

Posted Jul 28, 2026 by Eagle · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$150,000–$300,000** New York, NY On-site Full-time

Own the shared platform architecture and multi-tenant infrastructure underpinning Eagle’s software for civil engineering firms.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$150K–$300K Level with the median

Midpoint $225K · median $225K

This job $150K to $300K. Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K.

### The work

Builds for teams inside the company

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: Both

- **Level**: Staff+

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **5+ years** platform-focused software engineering roles

Background

- **Software engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have?

The posting reads as a staff-level role. What level are you at now?

The job is in New York, NY. Could you work there?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: New York, NY

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Eagle

Posted by Eagle on Jul 28, 2026

### About Eagle

Eagle is on a mission to re-energize the engineering profession. Every road, bridge, and building starts at an engineering firm. There are 40K+ of them in the US, and most run on software older than the engineers using it.

This legacy toolset was designed before the term "user experience" ever existed and it's demotivating, error-prone, and slow. We're building the iron man suit for civil engineers to pull them out of this tedium and get them back to designing the future of our built environment.

Eagle was founded by Mayank Mardia (CEO), Sohum Daftary (President), and Thomas Shouler, P.E. (CTO), and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

### The opportunity

As a **Software Engineer**, you'll own the platform layer that impacts every single user we engage with. You'll partner directly with the CTO to shape the broader technical strategy that underpins our work. You'll also treat the forward deployed team as a user, synthesizing across their needs to get everyone more leverage at the edge. You get a front-row seat to building a company from zero on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.

### What you'll do

- Own the system architecture that's shared across our forward deployed engineers (data ingestion, API design, authorization, our broader hybrid RAG system)
- Own our multi-tenant architecture where each firm is a new tenant, a new identity domain, and a new set of source systems to connect to
- Contribute to the delivery path from commit to production: CI/CD, preview environments, test infrastructure, a local setup that works on day one
- Shape what "up" means for us, instrument it, and contribute to our observability and incident management practice

### Our Values

- **Ask Why:** We have a beginner’s mind, incessantly ask questions, and share our success with others. We always want to know what we can be doing better.
- **Read the Room:** We read the situation and meet people where they are, whether that's a counterparty, a client, or each other. We listen first and understand how our words and actions impact one another.
- **Get on a Flight:** We have dogged persistence. We operate with a sense of urgency with our work and careers, and we want to push and be pushed.

### What we look for

- You've owned architecture decisions within large distributed systems and have specific opinions about what you'd do differently next time
- 5+ years of experience in platform-focused software engineering roles
- Experience at a fast growing startup

### Technology

- Frontend: NextJS on Vercel, Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Kotlin for web services, Python for data
- Infra: Multitenant shared infra on AWS

### Compensation

- Competitive cash compensation ($150K–$300K depending on experience)
- Founding equity, scaled to scope

### Benefits

- **Health Insurance:** Full healthcare, medical and dental
- **Retirement:** 401(k)
- **PTO:** Flexible time off
- **Travel:** Company-paid
- **Office:** HQ in New York City

### Process

Our process takes about 2 weeks: a conversation with Tom or Mayank, a second founder conversation, a 60 minute technical interview, followed by a work trial where you'll get to meet the rest of the team and build with us for a day.

[View posting at Eagle](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eagle/00b0bfbe-b174-4c5b-8d29-3aba4a1ddeef/application)

## About Eagle

Eagle acquires and partners with engineering firms, embedding AI and custom tools to improve engineering workflows and firm operations.

Seed · 10–50 people

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