Full Stack Engineer

San Francisco, CA

About Straia

At Straia, we're building the AI-native intelligence layer for colleges and universities.

Today, colleges run on dozens of disconnected systems, forcing staff to spend hundreds of hours manually reconciling data, compiling reports, and tracking down insights. Straia changes that. We unify institutional data and layer on AI agents that answer questions, generate insights/visualizations, and automate repetitive workflows, transforming how colleges operate.

Over time, Straia will evolve into the core intelligence layer for institutional operations, where every function, from student advising to admissions to budgeting and resource planning, is supported by collaborative AI agents that understand each institution's unique data landscape.

We recently raised our pre-seed from a16z Speedrun, Reach Capital, and JFF Ventures, and are now hiring a Full Stack Engineer to help build the product that institutions use to interact with their data every day.

The Role

As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll work across our entire stack — from the React frontend to the Node/TypeScript backend — to build the product surface where institutions interact with their data and AI agents.

This is a 0 → 1 opportunity to ship features end-to-end on a product that moves institutional data at scale, runs privately hosted frontier models, and delivers low-latency insights to non-technical users making real decisions about student outcomes.

You'll own meaningful chunks of the product from day one — designing, building, and shipping the interfaces and APIs that turn messy institutional data into clear, actionable answers. We move fast, keep the loop between idea and production short, and trust engineers to take real ownership of what they build.

We're looking for someone with high agency who's happiest shipping. The kind of engineer who picks up an ambiguous problem, drives it from blank page to production, and sweats the details that make a product feel great to use. If you thrive when expectations are high and the pace is fast, you'll feel right at home 🙂

What You'll Do

• Ship features end-to-end — Own work across the whole stack, from the React + Vite frontend to the Node + Express + TypeScript backend. You'll take features from design through delivery and iteration, and you'll care about how they feel for the people using them.
• Build the AI agent experience — Create the interfaces and APIs where non-technical users ask questions and get back insights, visualizations, and automated workflows. You'll make AI feel like a natural, first-class part of the product.
• Connect the product to data and models — Wire the application layer up to our data stack (Postgres + DuckDB) and model inference, and keep query and inference latency low enough that the product feels instantaneous.
• Own your work end-to-end — You won't just pick up tickets. You'll scope, build, and ship features with real autonomy, make pragmatic calls under ambiguity, and take genuine ownership of the things you deliver.
• Build internal tooling and automations — Help build the leverage that lets a small team operate like one ten times its size, automating away the things that slow engineers down.
• Care about quality and resilience — Treat observability, testing, and fault tolerance as part of the job, not an afterthought. You build things that are easy to understand, debug, and recover.

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