# Staff Product Engineer at Quanta > Hybrid · United States · Staff · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Aquanta%3A98e57451-e6e1-47bd-ba92-2faf76decc70 (read 2026-11-06). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Quanta](https://alderhq.app/companies/quanta) - Location text: San Francisco, CA - Where it can be done from (inferred): Hybrid · United States (evidence: "Location: San Francisco, CA") - Posted: 2026-09-22 (46 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-03 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quanta/98e57451-e6e1-47bd-ba92-2faf76decc70 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: $225k–$270k per year (from the listing's pay field) - Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 967): p25 $205k, median $240k, p75 $284k - Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Quanta Corp Ltd" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers)) ## Description (the employer's text) We're building a new system of record for finance, one that understands not just the numbers, but the business context behind them. At its core is our Operational Ledger: a financial data layer that preserves every event, calculation, policy, source, and decision behind the financials, rather than reducing them to contextless entries. Questions that once took weeks to answer become as routine as a Google search: Why did margins change? Which customers are actually profitable? How are we tracking against budget? We're not bolting AI onto legacy software. Quanta was built from the ground up around granular financial data, flexible primitives, and systems that agents can safely understand and act on. We've spent years closing the books for real, fast-growing companies and turning what we learn into product. We've already replaced much of what QuickBooks and NetSuite can do and the manual work surrounding them. Customers are now turning off legacy accounting systems and moving to Quanta. We're still early. The problems are hard, the ambition is enormous, and there's no playbook for what we're building. ### The Team We're a small, tight-knit team working together in person in downtown San Francisco. Our team brings together deep expertise in engineering and finance. We've built accounting systems at Affirm, ledgers at Stripe and Robinhood, launched products from 0→1, scaled infrastructure processing billions of dollars, built finance functions, and closed the books under real operating pressure. We understand our customers because we have been in their shoes. Quanta's earliest product was built around a few principles we still value: get to learning as quickly as possible, find the simplest solution that works, and build alongside real users and real-world edge cases. Quanta is for people who want ownership, prioritize learning and outcomes over conventional playbooks, and are comfortable figuring things out as they go. We move quickly, but we are building systems where correctness and trust matter deeply. That tension—moving fast while building durable foundations—is at the heart of the engineering problems we work on. As a Staff Product Engineer, you'll own some of Quanta's most important product problems from end to end. You'll work closely with customers, product, design, and other engineers to understand messy real-world workflows, determine what we should build, and turn those insights into simple, durable product experiences. You'll also raise the bar for how we build products across the engineering team—bringing strong technical judgment, product intuition, and a bias toward getting useful software into customers' hands. ### What We're Looking For 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience owning and shipping customer-facing products in production. Strong product judgment. You can take an ambiguous customer problem, understand what actually matters, and translate it into a product and technical solution. Strong technical depth across application architecture, APIs, data modeling, backend systems, and the tradeoffs required to build reliable products. Excellent technical judgment and an instinct for finding the simplest solution that solves the customer's problem without creating unnecessary complexity. High ownership. You don't stop at shipping code—you care whether customers use what you built, whether it solved the problem, and what should happen next. Ability to create clarity from ambiguity and independently identify the highest-leverage product and technical problems to solve. Strong communication and collaboration skills. You can explain technical tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and work closely with engineers and non-engineers. Bonus points for experience building financial products, complex B2B software, workflow products, data-intensive applications, or other systems where correctness and trust are critical. ### This Role Is Not for You If… You want a Staff role primarily focused on architecture, technical strategy, or advising other engineers rather than building and shipping products yourself. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Aquanta%3A98e57451-e6e1-47bd-ba92-2faf76decc70 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.