Staff Software Engineer, Labs

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised a total of $83M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

We are hiring a Staff Full-Stack Engineer as a foundational member of Higharc Labs. This is a role for an entrepreneurial product engineer who can move from problem definition to shipped software quickly, working across the stack, and across the org, to drive product and technology experiments to clear, high-impact outcomes.

You will work across product, design, ML, and engineering to identify the right bets, build production-safe prototypes, validate with users, and either hand off successful, product-ready betas or sunset with shared learnings. Expect to:

• Own experiments end-to-end: shape hypotheses, define success criteria, build, ship, measure, and iterate

• Build full-stack product experiences (frontend, backend, data, and integrations) in a mature Typescript monorepo

• Talk directly with users and internal stakeholders to refine problem framing and validate assumptions early

• Help define a repeatable framework (process + tooling) for experimentation that balances learning velocity with guardrails for quality, safety, and maintainability

• Drive handoffs for successful bets by documenting interface contracts, known limitations, and transition plans

• Contribute to architectural decisions that become reusable platform patterns, enabling faster, safer product delivery across teams

• Example projects: multiplayer collaboration, AI-orchestration service, design content library

You are excited to have unusual autonomy and greenfield scope in a company with real revenue and customers. You thrive in ambiguity, don't mind that some experiments get killed, and are energized by the challenge of building something new inside an established organization. If that sounds like a feature and not a bug, let's go!

You have:

• 7+ years experience shipping customer-facing web products across the stack

• Ownership of ambiguous, high-impact problems from concept through deployment and iteration

• Product engineering instincts: you can define problems, simplify scope, and prioritize what creates measurable value

• Comfort moving between strategy and execution, from writing a one-pager to debugging production behavior

• Clear written and verbal communication in a remote, async environment

• High standards paired with pragmatism: you know when to move fast and when to invest in durability

• A builder mentality and bias to action; you are self-directed and learn quickly in new domains

A major plus if you also bring:

• Experience as a technical founder or early engineer at a high-growth SaaS company

• Experience with with AI/LLM agent architectures or ML-backed product features

• Familiarity with 3D graphics, WebGL/Three.js, or design tools

While we've identified the core experience and skills required above, please still apply if you have more or different experience than this! We will use your previous experience and performance across the series of interviews to establish appropriate level within our organization in a fair and equitable way.

Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.
Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with unlimited PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.