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title: 'Staff Software Engineer at Merge'
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# Staff Software Engineer at Merge

- **Company:** Merge
- **Location:** New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $210k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-03-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Merge/18ef9d99-96d3-47ae-9645-803095c9a881/application

**Skills:** Software Engineering, Django, Rails, Spring, SQL, Postgres

> The Staff Software Engineer drives roadmapping, architecture, and production code while leading impactful projects from inception to deployment. This role involves scaling core systems, designing product innovations, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive growth and technical excellence.

## Job description

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](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2025-50-us-companies-rise-linkedin-news-hox6f/?trackingId=%2ByDh3eBLTpaVCSpKvOV1Yw%3D%3D%22) [Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups 2023](https://znsrc.com/c/pqwaikbfql) [G2 Fastest Growing Products 2024](https://www.g2.com/best-software-companies/fastest-growing#list)

## 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

## About Merge

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Merge is a unified API platform that enables B2B companies to add hundreds of integrations to their products and empowers AI agents with secure, governed access to enterprise tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Total funding $74.5M; last round Series B $55M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (offices also in New York and Berlin)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Shensi Ding and Gil Feig

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: API infrastructure, B2B SaaS integrations, AI agent infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B SaaS companies, Fortune 500 organizations, AI product teams, enterprises needing customer-facing integrations
- **Mission**: “Reshaping the way the world integrates” and making secure data access easy

## Products & Services
- **Merge Unified**: A single API that gives products access to hundreds of pre-built integrations across HR, payroll, accounting, ticketing, CRM, SCIM, and directory platforms. Handles authentication, security, monitoring, and maintenance. (SaaS / API)
- **Merge Agent Handler**: Enables AI agents to take authenticated actions across thousands of enterprise tools with scoped permissions, complete audit logs, and real-time monitoring. Includes model routing, fallback, and cost optimization. (API / Platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $74.5M (Series B $55M) as of latest round; annual revenue not publicly available (estimated at ~$1M by third‑party data, but unverified)
- **Notable Investors**: Backed by leading technology investors (names not publicly listed on company pages); recognized as a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star and Forbes Next‑Billion‑Dollar Startups 2023
- **Growth Signals**: 104 employees (+14.9% YoY); 21 active job postings (+162.5% YoY); LinkedIn followers 28,176 (+41.9% YoY); product rating 4.8/5 on G2-style reviews; recognized by Forbes

## Competitive Advantages
- **Single API replaces dozens of custom integrations**, drastically reducing engineering time and maintenance overhead
- **Enterprise‑grade security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR certified
- **Model routing and fallback**: Automatically routes LLM calls to the best provider based on cost and performance, with automatic failover
- **Governed agents**: Scoped permissions and complete audit logs satisfy enterprise compliance needs
- **Pre‑built, always‑maintained connectors** across multiple categories (HR, payroll, accounting, ticketing, CRM, etc.)

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening agent‑capabilities (Agent Handler) and expanding the integration catalog
- Positioning as the infrastructure layer for AI products that need reliable, secure access to real enterprise data
- Serving both external product integrations and internal tool automation
- Maintaining enterprise‑grade compliance and data protection as core differentiators

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “character of excellence”, “own what matters”, “enthusiasm is momentum”, “make it easy”, and “ask anything, say anything”. High employee ratings: overall 4.4/5, culture 4.5/5.
- **Work model**: In‑person‑first (offices in San Francisco, New York, Berlin). Small startup environment with close‑knit teams.
- **Engineering‑heavy**: 36% of employees in technical roles; top alumni go to OpenAI, Anthropic, Salesforce, Notion.
- **Perks & compensation**: Compensation rating 4.2/5; not many perks publicly detailed, but strong growth trajectory and exposure to cutting‑edge AI/integration problems.
- **Recent departures**: Head of People Operations left in February 2026 – new leadership is being built out.

## Sources
1. [merge.dev](https://www.merge.dev/)
2. [merge.dev/about](https://www.merge.dev/about)
3. [merge.dev/careers](https://www.merge.dev/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/merge-api](https://www.linkedin.com/company/merge-api)
5. [merge.careers](https://merge.careers/)

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