mural - Staff Software Engineer, Core Canvas

• Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, with familiarity in React, Node.js, or comparable modern frameworks • 10+ years building and shipping large-scale production software as part of an agile engineering team • Systems architecture judgment, with a track record of delivering scalable, reliable, high-performance systems and developer-facing abstractions that balance simplicity, developer experience, and long-term maintainability • Experience designing clean API contracts and service boundaries, including thoughtful data models, versioning, validation, error handling, documentation, and long-term maintainability • 3+ years building distributed, concurrent, or real-time systems, such as collaboration tools, MMO games, shared-state systems, messaging protocols, or other low-latency user experiences, with depth in synchronization, consistency, event ordering, latency, failure modes, and performance trade-offs • Strong background architecting complex systems with rich object models, including hierarchical scene or document structures, spatial indexing and querying, layout behavior, asset management, selection mechanics, and performance-sensitive user interactions • A track record of building or integrating AI-enabled product capabilities in production, such as intelligent editing, automation, recommendations, semantic document understanding, or collaboration features powered by AI • Performance optimization expertise, including profiling, bottleneck analysis, memory and CPU efficiency, latency reduction, and responsiveness as document complexity and user activity scale • Familiarity with parallel processing, off-main-thread architectures, rendering pipelines, background computation, or other multithreaded systems is a plus • A practical, outcome-oriented approach to AI-driven development practices, including using AI-assisted tools and agentic workflows to prototype, implement, test, document, and measure engineering work • Proven technical project leadership, including planning and delivering new systems and features iteratively with a focus on customer value • Communication and collaboration skills, with a low-ego approach to working with Product, Design, and Engineering, and the ability to lead technical discussions, influence technical direction, mentor engineers, work cross-team, and contribute to engineering standards, processes, and culture • Comfort operating in high-growth, fast-paced environments or scale-ups is a plus • EQUAL OPPORTUNITY • We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.