Senior Software Engineer, Internal AI

📋 Description

• Build central platform capabilities that multiply the rest of the org. Ship the services, agents, centralized products, and MCP integrations that non-software engineer teams use as building blocks — the hub in our hub-and-spoke.
• Be the architecture funnel for non-product AI. Review use cases coming out of every non-product team. Recommend the right path — off-the-shelf tool, Claude skill, Notion agent, no-code (n8n / Workato), or custom build. Squash the large majority of low-value vibe-coded ideas before they consume engineering or security cycles.
• Hold the application-layer bar. You set and enforce application-level standards: integration patterns, data handling, identity, evals, observability.
• Be the single interface into core Engineering. When something genuinely needs infrastructure — hosting, production scheduling, new data in the warehouse — you are the funnel point from the business into Foundations and Security. Triaged, reduced, sequenced, spec’d, so other teams aren’t each having the same conversation three times.
• Ship when building is the right call. When no off-the-shelf path fits, you build — to production standards. Reviewed, version-controlled, observable, documented, owned. Never orphaned.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years building and operating backend applications in production. Bias toward application, integration, and data-pipeline work rather than pure infrastructure.
• Real infrastructure sensibility. You understand hosting, identity, secrets, and data flow well enough to collaborate credibly with a core infrastructure team.
• Strong architectural vocabulary. Comfortable reviewing others’ designs (engineers and non-engineers) and saying “use this pattern, not that one” with empathy.
• Pragmatist. Picks the smallest tool that works — sometimes Python/Node, sometimes n8n, frequently “don't build it, here’s an existing skill you should use with Claude Cowork.”
• Hands-on with modern AI tooling: Claude Code, Cowork, MCP, LLM APIs, evals. Opinionated about where AI is the wrong solution.
• Strong communicator. Much of this role is consulting engineers and non-engineers and holding a line without becoming a blocker; comfortable in ambiguity.

🎁 Benefits

• Start-up equity
• Health, vision & dental coverage
• Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner
• Flexible PTO
• ClassPass membership
• Monthly commuter benefit