Senior Software Engineer
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About the Role
🚀 Senior / Staff Software Engineer – AI Agents AI-Native Product | Remote (US & Canada) 💰 $180K – $230K + Equity (flexible for exceptional talent) 💡 The Opportunity We’re partnering with a high-growth, product-led SaaS company building an all-in-one platform used daily by tens of thousands of businesses. The company is making a major strategic investment in AI agents with a mission to enable customers to run core parts of their business through natural, conversational interfaces . This team is early, high-priority, and highly visible . You’ll help define how agent-driven experiences are built, scaled, and integrated across the platform. If you’ve already shipped production-grade agentic AI systems and want real ownership in shaping the future of applied AI, this is a rare opportunity. 🛠️ What You’ll Own This is a true ownership role focused on both product and platform: Own end-to-end delivery of agent-powered product experiences Design and implement LLM integrations, tool usage, and orchestration layers Build conversational UX surfaces that customers interact with daily Contribute to a shared agent platform (RAG, evals, observability, tooling abstractions) Influence architecture, model strategy, and framework decisions across the business Balance latency, cost, and reliability to deliver high-quality production agents Establish patterns and standards that scale across multiple agent surfaces You won’t just be integrating AI; you’ll be defining how AI products are built within the company. ✅ What You Need to Bring 🔑 Core Experience 5+ years in software engineering, with hands-on experience shipping production AI/LLM features Strong experience building agentic systems (tool calling, loops, orchestration) Proven ability to treat the LLM as a core system component , not an add-on Experience with evaluation frameworks and observability for non-deterministic systems Comfortable working full-stack across backend systems and user-facing product surfaces Track record of ownership in fast-moving, ambiguous environments ⭐ Strong Signals Experience with RAG systems or retrieval pipelines in production Contributions to LLM tooling, agent frameworks, or open-source AI infra Background in building products for SMBs, commerce, or operational workflows Experience mentoring or setting technical direction in emerging product areas 🧠 Technical Environment Frontend: React, TypeScript Backend: Node.js, TypeScript AI Stack: Modern LLM tooling, agent SDKs Data: MongoDB, PostgreSQL Observability: Datadog, eval frameworks (e.g. LangSmith-like tooling) 🏆 What Sets You Apart You are a builder with a product mindset , not just an implementer You’ve worked at startup or high-growth companies , navigating ambiguity and speed You have a strong sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes You care deeply about user experience, quality, and iteration velocity You’re excited by 0→1 product development in emerging AI paradigms 🎁 What You’ll Get 💸 Competitive salary ($210K–$230K) + meaningful equity 🌎 Fully remote (US or Canada) 🧠 High-autonomy, high-impact environment 🚀 Opportunity to shape a company-wide AI strategy from the ground up 🤖 Work on real-world, production AI systems used at scale ⚠️ Important Details 📍 Must be based in the US or Canada ❌ No visa sponsorship available 👉 Ready to Build the Next Generation of AI Products? If you’ve already built agentic AI systems in production and want to take ownership of a critical product area at a fast-growing company, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now. Show more Show less
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