--- title: 'Staff/Principal Software Engineer at Uniti AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-principal-software-engineer-uniti-ai-uniti-hq-p357dcp6tkv2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Staff/Principal Software Engineer at Uniti AI - **Company:** Uniti AI - **Location:** Uniti Hq - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-02-27 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/uniti/9a9a6d2c-7201-40a0-8b31-d294a6683d36 ## Job description Uniti AI — New York City Metropolitan Area (Hybrid) Uniti AI is a New York City–based Series A startup building advanced AI sales and support agents for the real estate industry. As a Principal Software Engineer at Uniti AI, you will set the technical direction and lead the development of our core platform spanning real-time communication, automation, and large-scale AI-driven workflows. You'll architect and deliver high-impact systems, guide engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with product, AI, and go-to-market teams to ensure our technology consistently delivers measurable value. Your work will shape a reliable, scalable foundation that supports rapid growth, drives customer adoption, and accelerates the long-term success of our AI agents. ## Responsibilities This role entails playing a critical role in the development of our AI-powered lead and customer management product. - Own and lead the design, development, and deployment of major product features across our AI-driven lead management stack. - Make key technical decisions on architecture, infrastructure, and scaling. - Drive rapid iteration and experimentation: ship fast, learn fast, and iterate. - Collaborate directly with founders to shape product direction and technical strategy. - Debug and solve problems across the stack, no "not my job" mentality. - Set the engineering bar: code quality, testing, reviews, and best practices. - Build and manage strong working relationships with technical counterparts. Mentor and share knowledge with peers, creating a positive atmosphere amongst the team. - Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback while quickly actioning feedback from code reviews conducted of your code. - Influence decision-making through presentation of data-centric business topics. ## Minimum Qualifications - 7-12 years experience as a software engineer building and shipping production quality code - Experience with open source languages such as Python and TypeScript - Experience with writing and shipping reliable, scalable, and efficient code, with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, in partnership with all appropriate reviewers, in manageable pieces with relevant documentation and test plans - Experience with software design and architecture - Experience with AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code - Role is flexible/hybrid - Fluency in English is required ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience writing code in Python - Experience writing code in React.js - Experience with AWS technologies - Client/partner-facing and/or experience communicating to an audience - Experience working in highly collaborative environments - Experience working on multi-person code bases including open source or personal projects - Experience contributing to developer and platform documentation ## What We Offer - Competitive salary with equity options - Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100% - Snacks, a generous tech budget, unlimited vacation, and company outings ## About Uniti AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Uniti AI provides AI-powered sales, support, and finance agents that automate lead engagement and customer communications for real estate operators across multiple asset classes. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States (with offices in London, UK and Portugal) - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Francesco Decamilli (CEO) and Emre Altinok (CTO) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Real Estate Technology (PropTech), AI-powered Sales & Support Automation - Target customers: B2B, primarily real estate operators across multifamily, self-storage, office, brokerage, co-working, industrial, and hotel/event venues - Mission or purpose statement: "Building the Agentic Backbone for Real Estate" — to empower real estate teams with AI-driven solutions that work seamlessly alongside human expertise, evolving organizations into hybrids of human teams and specialized AI agents. ## Products & Services - **AI Voice Agents**: Answer phone calls, qualify prospects, book meetings, or escalate to team members. Ideal for overflow and after-hours support. - **AI Sales Agents (Email, SMS, WhatsApp & Chat)**: Engage, qualify, and schedule leads across multiple channels 24/7 with instant, intelligent responses. - **Re-Engagement Campaigns**: Automated multi-channel follow-ups (email, SMS, WhatsApp) to bring dormant prospects back. - **Escalations & Hand-Offs**: Seamless transition of complex or urgent conversations from AI to the right human rep, with real-time detection of negotiation requests, frustration signals, or direct call requests. - **Integrations**: Syncs with HubSpot, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Pipedrive, and various property management systems. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $4.0M in Seed round (raised April 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor is Prudence; backed by "leading PropTech and Software VCs." Specific other investors not publicly named. - **Growth Signals**: - Founded in 2024 and already raised a $4M seed round - LinkedIn followers: 2,618 with +9.2% monthly growth - Employee count: 18 with +5.0% monthly growth - 13 active job postings with +85.7% month-over-month increase in listings - Claims clients typically reduce lead response times to under 90 seconds and increase lead-to-deal conversion rates by 20% or more ## Competitive Advantages - **Industry-Specific Focus**: Purpose-built for real estate, with specialized agents for different asset classes (multifamily, self-storage, office, brokerage, etc.) rather than a generic chatbot - **Multi-Channel Orchestration**: Unified engagement across voice, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and web chat from a single platform - **Enterprise-Grade Compliance**: GDPR readiness, CCPA compliant, PCI compliant, with redacted PII from LLMs - **Ultra-Configurable**: No-code customization of qualification questions, messaging style, tone, scenario handling, and escalation rules - **Strong Founding Team**: CEO with leadership roles at Colliers, Knotel, and Bisnow Media; CTO is a Yale-educated AI repeat entrepreneur; founding engineers from Meta ## Strategic Focus - Expand as the "agentic backbone" for real estate, covering sales, support, and finance workflows - Continue building industry-specific AI agents tailored to different real estate segments - Scale go-to-market team (actively hiring Account Executives, SDRs, Customer Success Managers) - Deepen integrations with property management systems and CRMs - Maintain a hybrid human-AI operating model where AI handles repetitive tasks and humans manage complex escalations ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Fast-paced startup environment focused on cutting-edge AI technology in real estate. Described as a place for those who "thrive in a fast-paced environment and are excited about selling cutting-edge AI technology." - **Work Policy**: Hybrid workspace — employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work, typically 2-3 days a week in the New York Nomad office space. - **Team Composition**: Small, growing team of 18 with strong technical talent (founding engineers from Meta, Yale-educated CTO). Global team covering US, UK, and Portugal time zones. - **Growth Opportunity**: Very early-stage company with significant hiring momentum (+85.7% increase in job postings month-over-month). Opportunity to shape the company's trajectory. - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but being a well-funded seed-stage startup suggests competitive compensation and equity packages. ## Sources 1. [getuniti.com](https://getuniti.com/) 2. [getuniti.com/company](https://getuniti.com/company) 3. [LinkedIn - Uniti AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uniti-ai) 4. 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