Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer leading GenAI product development at Placer.ai, a location analytics platform. Building scalable conversational AI, full-stack features, and production-grade intelligence tools.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with product, design, and customers to shape what to build and how
- Turn vague requirements into clear technical plans and adjust them as needed
- Design, build, and ship production features across APIs, data models, services, and UI
- Make architecture decisions balancing immediate speed with long-term maintainability
- Build AI-powered capabilities including LLM features, retrieval, agents, and MCP tool-calling flows with scoped permissions and failure recovery
- Build evaluations from real user questions before prompts or model changes ship
- Protect AI features against prompt injection, personal-data leaks, and fabricated answers
- Maintain production health through monitoring, tracing, debugging, and fixing reliability, cost, and latency issues
- Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor while owning quality, testing, and reliability
- Raise engineering standards through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and workflow improvements
Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering, shipping customer-facing products in production
- Strong full-stack fundamentals: Python (FastAPI or similar), React and TypeScript, relational databases and SQL, and shipping containerized services to the cloud
- Strong system design: data modeling, API design, and production systems that remain reliable, fast, and secure as they grow
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered features: context engineering, prompts, retrieval, tools, memory, evals, model failure handling, and AI system architecture
- AI-native workflow using tests as a safety net and evaluating AI output
- Strong product sense
- High EQ and ability to maintain stakeholder trust
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical people
- Comfortable working independently amid ambiguity
- Drug-free workplace requirement
- Nice to have: demonstrated use of AI tools professionally or personally
- Nice to have: experience integrating generative AI into day-to-day workflows
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Excellent benefits
- Fully remote
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Flexible time off
- 401K
- Equity awards for certain roles
- Opportunity to earn sales-based commissions for certain roles
- Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent


















