Senior Software Engineer

### Who you are
- 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
- Familiarity with service-oriented architecture and microservices patterns
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Experience working with event-driven architectures and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience building and deploying services using Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS
- Proficiency with SQL and relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
- Experience writing unit and integration tests
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
- Ability to analyze problems, break them down, and deliver scalable solutions
- Experience participating in peer code reviews and collaborative engineering processes
- Experience with Python-based AI/LLM application development
- Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into backend systems
- Familiarity working with AI model APIs such as:
- Anthropic Claude
- OpenAI models
- Experience using Pydantic or similar schema validation frameworks for structured AI responses and API validation
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI tool orchestration, or agent-based systems
- Experience building systems that support AI inference pipelines or AI-driven product features
- Exposure to frontend technologies such as React
- Familiarity with CDNs and caching strategies
- Experience with E2E testing frameworks such as Playwright
- Experience working with API gateways (e.g., Kong, AWS API Gateway)
- Familiarity with service meshes (e.g., Dapr, Linkerd, Istio)
- Experience implementing observability practices, including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
- Experience building AI agents or tool-driven LLM systems
- Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Experience building internal developer tools powered by AI
- Experience working in high-growth startup environments

### What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play an important role in designing and building the services that power IruAI
- You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure software systems
- In this role, you will contribute to the development of modern backend architectures while helping integrate AI-powered capabilities into our platform
- You will work with Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI tooling to help build intelligent product features and internal development tools
- You will be expected to take ownership of key components, contribute to system design discussions, and help drive engineering best practices across the team
- Build and Maintain Backend Services: Design, develop, and maintain reliable backend services and APIs that support core product functionality
- Contribute to System Architecture: Work with senior engineers to design scalable service architectures and implement distributed systems that are resilient and maintainable
- Develop AI-Powered Features: Contribute to the implementation of AI-driven capabilities using modern LLM platforms and APIs to enhance product functionality and developer productivity
- Improve Developer Workflows: Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to improve local development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and testing workflows
- Build Scalable Systems: Develop systems designed to scale as the product and customer base grow while maintaining reliability and performance
- Implement Messaging and Integration Patterns: Help build and maintain event-driven services and integrations using message brokers such as Kafka or similar technologies
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate product ideas into technical solutions
- Write High-Quality Code: Maintain strong coding standards through testing, code reviews, and adherence to engineering best practices
- Continuously Improve the Platform: Identify opportunities to improve performance, reduce technical debt, and strengthen system reliability

### Benefits
- Health Coverage - 100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Account
- Equity for full-time employees
- New MacBook Pro and software setup
- Exciting opportunities for career growth
- An outstanding, inclusive culture
- 4% 401k company match
- Monthly Uber Eats meal credit
- $1,000 Home Office Equipment Stipend
- $50 monthly Internet reimbursement
- Equipment discounts
- Week long company shutdown, first week of August
- 10 Health and Wellness Days
- 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- 14 Holidays