About Lightfield Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that assembles itself from your email, calendar, and meetings. It captures every interaction and turns it into organized context: accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and insights, so nothing slips through the cracks. We’re rethinking CRM from first principles. Instead of forcing teams to maintain rigid systems, Lightfield learns from how companies actually work, adapting, automating, and surfacing the insight that drives growth. We’re building the CRM platform we always wished existed: fast, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. We are backed by Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, and our founders previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people. Before Lightfield, our team worked on Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce.
About
the role We’re looking for an experienced senior/staff engineer (5+ years of experience) who is product-minded, eager to tackle the challenge of building highly scalable, performant, and reliable features and systems that deliver exceptionally innovative AI product experiences. At Lightfield, engineers take end-to-end ownership of projects from inception to impact, collaborating across functions and pushing the envelope on what’s possible in applied AI systems development. You’ll work alongside a talented team to deliver industry-leading solutions and play a key role in shaping Lightfield’s product and technical vision. What you’ll do Collaborate with product leaders to define strategic initiatives, identify critical customer problems, and drive
requirements into technical execution. Build and maintain complex full-stack product features and systems, end-to-end, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance. Develop observability and metrics to enable smooth operation, proactive issue detection, and continuous improvement. Lead technical design discussions, mentor teammates at multiple levels, conduct thorough code reviews, and help set engineering best practices and standards. Contribute to building a world-class engineering team through recruiting, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing.
Who you are 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong background in both front-end and back-end technologies. Experience building large-scale, high-performance, and mission-critical systems that support complex customer workflows and large-scale data processing. You’re excited about Large Language Models (LLMs) and the opportunity to build systems that support and leverage them. You have the ability to ramp quickly on tech stack that features TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. Proven ability to design, architect, and scale distributed systems in production environments. Strong fundamentals in software engineering, with a degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent industry experience). Thrives in ambiguity, able to independently scope, plan, and lead projects while delivering results in a fast-moving environment. Clear communicator, capable of articulating technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Passionate about building products customers love, ensuring our CRM is intuitive, intelligent, and indispensable.
Benefits &
Perks Competitive salary Meaningful early equity Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) 3 weeks of PTO 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break 3 months of paid family leave Wednesdays work from home Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats 401k plan Other
perks include: commuter and lunch stipend
Lightfield is an AI-native CRM built for the modern era, designed to replace legacy tools like Salesforce and HubSpot by assembling itself automatically from a team's email, calendar, and meetings. Founded with the mission to become the definitive system of record for the AI era — just as Salesforce defined the cloud era — Lightfield is rethinking CRM from first principles: instead of forcing teams into rigid systems, it learns from how companies actually work, adapting, automating, and surfacing insights that drive growth. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, and its founders previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people. The team brings deep pedigree from Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce. Traction has been exceptional: over 3,000 companies have signed up for the product, with more than 100 new sign-ups every week and roughly 30 converting to paying customers weekly. Customers include notable names like Substack and Distill. Lightfield operates a dual go-to-market motion — a high-velocity self-serve PLG funnel paired with a direct sales motion targeting Series A/B startups — and is scaling rapidly with plans to grow its sales team from 1 to 7 AEs by end of year. The culture is high-intensity, mission-driven, and in-office four days a week, attracting missionaries over mercenaries who are genuinely excited about building a category-defining company.
Performance Marketing Lead
Founding Account Executive
Staff Engineer, Backend Systems
Full Stack Engineer, Product & Systems
Head of Talent
Salary
$200,000 - $300,000
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Experience
5+ years
Total raised
$81.0M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
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