Senior Software Engineer

5+ years of experience as a software engineer building production-grade systems

Demonstrated experience taking LLM-powered features from prototype to production (0 → 1), including prompt engineering, evaluation, deployment, and iteration

Hands-on experience building agentic systems - including planning/reasoning loops, tool use, memory/context management, and orchestration

Strong experience building large-scale, back-end services and APIs using modern languages and frameworks

Experience using AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as part of a modern software engineering workflow

Solid understanding of LLM operational concerns: token economics, latency optimization, model routing, caching strategies, and cost management at scale

Experience designing evaluation frameworks and quality metrics for AI systems (accuracy, hallucination rates, task completion, regression testing)

Strong understanding of software engineering principles, cloud-native infrastructure, and distributed system design

Ability to build robust, scalable, reusable solutions that safely integrate AI capabilities into core platforms

Ability to mentor and influence other engineers, sharing knowledge and raising overall technical quality

Ability to unblock yourself and help accelerate the team in achieving complex, cross-disciplinary goals

Outcome-oriented mindset, using metrics and data to evaluate both system behavior and development effectiveness

Experience driving engineering best practices for high-functioning teams through effective use of tools and automation

Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies that support continuous delivery and high availability

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