Senior Engineer

About Steady

We’re building the coordination layer for modern teams. Steady runs in the background, distilling plans and progress from tools, teams, and people into personalized context that keeps everyone aligned automatically. We’re creating a new category – Continuous Coordination – built on a Rails web app with AI-native features that actually deliver value.

The Role

You’ll own major technical initiatives and ship product features that matter. We’re a small team, so this is a hands-on role: you’ll write code, make architectural decisions, and help us scale the product as we prove the GTM model.

Right now that means: building out our Echoes (persistent AI agents for teams), improving our integrations layer (Jira, GitHub, Slack, etc.), shipping features that move customers up-market, and keeping up quality standards on as we grow. You’ll work directly with the founding team, dogfood the product daily, and have real ownership over what we build.

If you need a large team to delegate to or want pure architecture work, this isn’t the role. If you want to build something differentiated and ship it fast, keep reading.

What You’ll Do

• Own and ship major product features end-to-end (backend, frontend, integrations)
• Build and refine our AI agents that maintain coordination context for teams
• Extend our integrations layer to pull context from tools teams already use
• Make architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and maintainability
• Work with the founding team to prioritize what ships and what waits
• Help us scale infrastructure as we grow (we’re efficient, not wasteful)
• Maintain our high quality bar: we ship well-crafted software, not MVPs held together with duct tape

You’re a Fit If

• You have deep Rails expertise and can move fast without breaking things
• You’ve built complex web applications with real-time data, integrations, and modern frontends
• You’re comfortable working with LLMs/AI features in production (prompt engineering, context management, etc.)
• You can make pragmatic tradeoffs between perfect and shipped
• You thrive with ownership and autonomy, not process and hierarchy
• You care about craft: elegant solutions, clean code, products that feel good to use
• You’re productive in a remote, async-first environment

Our Stack

• Rails (backend + API)
• Modern JavaScript/frontend (we value pragmatism over hype)
• PostgreSQL
• Background jobs, webhooks, integrations with third-party APIs
• LLM integrations (Gemini) powering our agents and AI features
• Desktop app (Electron-based)

What We Offer

• Competitive salary + equity in an early-stage company
• Ownership of major technical decisions and product direction
• Work directly with the founding team with Rails-core commits
• Remote-first, async culture (we use Steady to coordinate)
• Chance to build a new category of software from the ground up
• We value quality, not heroics – no death marches or crunch culture

To apply: Email javan at runsteady dot com with “Senior Engineer - [Your Name]” in the subject. Share something you built that you’re proud of (GitHub, live product, blog post about a hard problem), and tell us what interests you about Continuous Coordination.