Software Development Engineer III, AI Chat

Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver complex features and platforms across frontend and backend, from design to production.
• Lead system design for scalable, reliable services (APIs, workflows, async processing, data models), balancing correctness, latency, cost, and developer velocity.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and influence architecture and roadmap decisions through strong technical leadership.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership of production systems.
• Strong programming skills in at least one backend language (Python/Node.js) and strong CS fundamentals.
• Proven experience designing and operating scalable systems (service design, API contracts, databases, caching, queues, failure modes).

Bonus Points:

• Experience with distributed systems at scale (event-driven architecture, message queues, idempotency, retries, rate limiting).
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Experience integrating LLMs and GenAI capabilities into products (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini or OSS models), including prompt design, evaluation, and safety/quality guardrails.