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