Senior Software Engineer

CommodityAI

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years professional software engineering experience, preferably at a high-growth startup.
  • Demonstrated experience deploying production AI, particularly with LLMs or agent-based systems.
  • Strong ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs between speed, reliability, and technical debt.
  • Proven end-to-end ownership of software projects from architecture to deployment and monitoring.
  • Willingness to work in-person in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

  • Design, scale, and maintain backend APIs and data pipelines for handling billions in transactions.
  • Architect AI/LLM workflows and structured extraction systems for document data processing.
  • Develop features across the tech stack, including React, TypeScript, Python, Go, and Node.
  • Collaborate with customers and team to solve complex logistical problems and create production-ready software.
  • Lead project ownership from inception to deployment, ensuring robust outputs.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary with meaningful early-stage equity.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • High-trust, low-bureaucracy work environment.
  • Opportunity for direct collaboration with the founder and elite technical team.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
• Build Core Systems: Design, scale, and maintain the backend APIs and data pipelines that process billions of dollars in transaction value.
• Deploy Production AI/LLM Workflows: Architect agentic systems, structured extraction pipelines, and evaluation frameworks that turn chaotic, real-world documents into deterministic data.
• Full-Stack Execution: Work across our stack (React, TypeScript, Python, Go, Node) to deliver end-to-end features, from robust data orchestration to clean frontend user workflows.
• Own Product Outcomes: Collaborate with customers and the founding team to understand complex logistical problems and translate them into reliable, production-ready software.
Requirements

Who You Are

We are looking for a senior- or staff-level engineer with a strong track record in fast-paced startup environments who prefers context over control and operates with a high degree of agency.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally as. anearly technical leader or core contributor at a high-growth startup.
• Hands-on experience with production AI: You have built and deployed LLM- or agent-based systems in real-world settings (specifically addressing structured outputs, retrieval, or orchestration).
• Strong technical judgment: You understand how to make pragmatic trade-offs between execution speed, system reliability, and long-term technical debt.
• End-to-end ownership: You take pride in owning projects from initial architecture through to implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Location: Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco for regular in-person collaboration.
Benefits

Benefits & Culture
• Competitive base salary with meaningful early-stage equity.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• A high-trust, low-bureaucracy environment where you have a direct seat at the table.
• Direct collaboration with the founder, Kyle Franz, and an agile, elite technical team.

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