Software Engineer, Deployed

Serval Inc

$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in a product-focused or customer-facing role.
  • Strong coding and system design skills, with experience shipping production systems and building external integrations.
  • Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with high ownership and limited structure.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and business stakeholders.
  • A track record of taking initiatives from ambiguous problem to shipped solution with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build production-grade systems for strategic pilots, turning complex requirements into scalable implementations.
  • Design, implement, and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations that extend Serval's AI agent platform.
  • Engineer secure, high-performance integrations with external systems, focusing on reliability and maintainability.
  • Convert real-world customer edge cases into generalized, reusable product capabilities through thoughtful system design.
  • Own the technical lifecycle of key deployments, from initial architecture through scaling and optimization.

Benefits

  • Impact: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company.
  • Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering and grow rapidly with the company.
  • Culture: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.
Full Job Description
About the team

The Agent Deployment team is a customer-facing technical team, central to how Serval turns product capability into real business outcomes. The org is a family of roles: Deployment Strategists are the primary technical relationship and AI advisor for each customer, partnering with Deployed Software Engineers to build enterprise-grade features and products. Deployment Success Managers own each customer's long-term success, building the systems and motions that scale adoption, expansion, and renewal well past go-live.

Role Overview

Deployed Software Engineers are customer-facing software engineers: shipping features, building new capabilities, and expanding our product surface area inside some of the world's most complex enterprises. You'll work directly with customers to turn messy, high-stakes workflows into reliable AI-driven systems, shipping production code that influences both revenue and product direction. This role isn't about building demos or prototypes; it's about shipping enterprise-grade features and products for our customers.

If you're energized by building something that didn't exist before, with a direct line between your work and company growth, this is the role for you.

What You'll Do
  • Ship core product: architect and ship production-grade systems that become part of Serval's core product, born from the real needs of our most complex customers.
  • Build platform services: design backend services, APIs, and integrations that extend Serval's AI agent platform across customers, with a focus on reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
  • Turn workflows into product: work directly with customers to turn messy, high-stakes workflows into generalized, reusable product capabilities.
  • Own the deployment lifecycle: own key deployments from architecture through scaling and continuous improvement.


Example Recent Projects
  • Productionize Serval's voice agent from alpha into a viable channel for enterprise users to reach the Serval AI agent, first at a Fortune 500 financial services company.
  • Upgrade our worker environment to communicate with on-premise Active Directory and Microsoft platforms over LDAP and PowerShell, and ship self-serve deployment so customers can stand up a Serval worker themselves.
  • Extend our workflow system to ingest knowledge from any source, making a customer's own systems searchable by the agent, a capability that won us the deal.


What You'll Need
  • Software engineering experience, ideally in a product-focused or customer-facing role
  • Strong coding and system design skills, with experience shipping production systems and building external integrations
  • High ownership in fast-moving environments with limited structure, and a track record of taking ambiguous problems to shipped, measurable impact.
  • A clear communicator with both technical and business stakeholders.


Nice to Have
  • Startup experience as a founder or early engineer.
  • Background working with enterprise customers or supporting complex technical sales cycles.
  • Experience building or deploying AI/LLM-powered features or agent-based systems.
  • Familiarity with IT, security, service management, or workflow automation.


What We Offer
  • Impact: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company.
  • Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors. Grow rapidly with the company.
  • Culture: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.

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