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Merge

Staff Software Engineer

New York, NY · San Francisco, CA

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Role family
Engineering
Seniority
Lead / management
Stated salary
$225,000 – $260,000 per year
Country
US
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
28 Sept 2026

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the posting

Merge is the leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Our platform offers three core products: Merge Unified, which enables businesses to add hundreds of integrations to their products with a single API, Merge Agent Handler, which empowers AI agents with secure access to thousands of third-party tools, and Merge Gateway, the control plane for running AI in production. Merge's enterprise-grade platform handles the entire integration lifecycle, from authentication and security to monitoring and maintenance. Thousands of companies trust Merge to accelerate product development, unblock sales, reduce customer churn, and save engineering resources—allowing them to focus on their core product.

What you will do:

Drive roadmapping and architecture discussions

Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code

Lead Merge's most impactful projects from initial inception to production

Unblock and support your team of peers including engineers, designers, product managers, and business operators

The ideal candidate will have:

7 - 10+ years of full-time software engineering experience

Experience with frameworks (Django, Rails, Spring, etc.)

Extensive knowledge of SQL databases (Postgres preferred)

Example projects you might work on:

Scaling Core Systems: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in our data syncing engine, lead large-scale migrations to more efficient technologies and storage solutions, and drive initiatives to increase system throughput

Product Innovation: Design flexible syncing paradigms that support advanced customization across model normalization, scheduling, data filtering, and API rate limit handling

New Revenue Streams: Partner with Product to ideate, prototype, and validate entirely new product lines or feature categories that unlock growth opportunities

Compensation

The cash compensation range for this role is $225,000 - $260,000

Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, and certifications. In addition to cash compensation, all full time employees receive an equity compensation package

Merge on the Rise:

Linkedin's Top Startups 2025

Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups 2023

G2 Fastest Growing Products 2024

Benefits

Unlimited PTO + 10 company holidays

Pre-Tax commuter benefits

100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance

401K Plan

$200 one-time home office stipend

In office snacks and free dinner when working past 7pm

Annual company offsites and quarterly team events. Past locations have included: Nashville, Sonoma, and the Hudson Valley

Original posting on Merge's site ↗

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