Job Description

Technacity Group is partnering with Symbium to hire a Senior Software Engineer with strong engineering fundamentals, a background in distributed systems and operations, and enthusiasm for building with AI.

The ideal candidate understands how to build and operate dependable software and sees the potential of AI and agentic pipelines to automate work. You know how to turn that potential into production systems that can run reliably at scale, with clear controls, visibility, and accountability.

About Symbium

Symbium is reinventing how citizens interact with local government, beginning with permitting for clean energy projects. Its proprietary Computational Law platform, Complaw®, translates regulations into executable logic so people can understand what is possible on a property, determine eligibility, and obtain approvals faster.

Symbium works with more than 270 cities and jurisdictions across the United States. The platform supports permitting for projects including solar panels, EV chargers, heat pumps, reroofing, and electrical upgrades. The technology originated from work at Stanford’s AI Lab and brings together legal reasoning, product engineering, and dependable software systems.

The team is four people and highly collaborative. You will work directly with the CTO and CEO, help shape the engineering organization, and build technology with a clear public impact.

The Opportunity

This role brings together platform engineering, operational ownership, and applied AI. You will strengthen the systems behind Symbium’s platform while building automation that helps a small team accomplish more as the business grows.

We are especially interested in engineers whose foundation is in backend infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform operations and who have more recently brought AI and agentic workflows into their work. You should be excited about automating tasks that no longer need ongoing manual attention—and have the engineering discipline to determine when those workflows are ready to run independently.

You will own major technical initiatives from design through production, contribute across the stack, and make practical decisions about reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

What You Will Do

Build and operate reliable systems

• Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, integrations, and distributed workflows that support critical permitting functions.
• Strengthen infrastructure, observability, deployment practices, and incident response as the platform scales.
• Improve system performance, data integrity, and resilience, including how services handle failures, retries, and recovery.
• Own delivery from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.

Put AI and agentic automation into production

• Identify engineering, operational, and product workflows where AI can meaningfully reduce manual work.
• Build agentic pipelines and AI-enabled tools that execute well-defined tasks with appropriate autonomy.
• Establish evaluations, monitoring, failure handling, and human review paths so automated workflows can operate reliably at scale.
• Make sound decisions about where to use AI, where deterministic logic is required, and when a workflow needs human judgment.
• Use AI actively in your own engineering work while maintaining ownership of code quality, security, and production behavior.

Advance Symbium’s core platform

• Extend the systems, schemas, and rule structures behind Complaw® as regulations and use cases evolve.
• Collaborate with domain experts to translate regulatory requirements into structured, verifiable logic.
• Use AI to help interpret regulations, user intent, plan sets, and other unstructured inputs while preserving deterministic, explainable compliance decisions.
• Build systems whose outputs are reliable, traceable, and understandable to the people who depend on them.

Help shape engineering practices

• Contribute to architecture, tooling, testing, code review, and documentation.
• Bring structure to ambiguous problems, set priorities, and communicate progress and tradeoffs clearly.
• Work closely with leadership and teammates to identify risks, propose solutions, and move important work forward.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production systems.
• Strong fundamentals in software design, data structures, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
• Significant experience with backend infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or reliability engineering, including responsibility for systems in production.
• Practical understanding of distributed system behavior, including concurrency, consistency, failure modes, retries, and recovery.
• Deep proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and Node.js, with experience operating systems in AWS or a comparable cloud environment.
• Strong SQL and database skills, including schema design, data modeling, query performance, and indexing.
• Ability to contribute across the stack, including modern front-end development when needed.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools, building AI-enabled workflows, or developing agentic automation, with a strong appetite to expand that work.
• Sound judgment about validating automated behavior, managing operational risk, and deploying changes safely at scale.
• Clear communication, strong organizational skills, and a high level of ownership.

Helpful Additional Experience

• Deploying AI or agentic pipelines in production, including evaluations, observability, cost management, and escalation paths.
• Scaling infrastructure or leading system migrations as usage and complexity grow.
• Building rule engines, compilers, domain-specific languages, or structured reasoning systems.
• Working with logic, constraint, or declarative programming, such as Prolog or Datalog.
• Building software for government, regulated industries, or integrations with strict compliance requirements.
• Interest in clean energy, permitting, or civic technology.

What Success Looks Like

You build systems the team can trust and automation that reduces the need for routine manual intervention. You can explain how a workflow behaves, how you validated it, what happens when it fails, and when someone needs to step in.

You are proactive and comfortable working through ambiguity. You break complex problems into manageable steps, adjust priorities as new information appears, and keep teammates informed. You bring both enthusiasm for what AI can make possible and the discipline to make it dependable.

Why Symbium

Every improvement to Symbium’s platform can help homeowners, contractors, and local governments move clean energy projects forward with less friction and more certainty.

You will join a small team where your decisions can directly shape the product, infrastructure, and engineering culture. You will work closely with company leadership and have room to grow your technical influence while solving consequential problems.

Location and Benefits

This is an in-person role based in Symbium’s San Francisco office near the Ferry Building.

Symbium offers competitive salary and equity, along with competitive health and 401(k) benefits.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and be willing to relocate to California before their start date. Symbium does not provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Apply

This search is being led by Technacity Group in partnership with Symbium. Apply through this posting with your resume and LinkedIn profile. Please include a brief example of a production system you have owned or an AI-enabled workflow you have built, including how you approached reliability and automation.

Symbium and Technacity Group are equal opportunity employers and recruiting partners.