Stord

Staff Software Engineer, AI

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7 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical vision, architecture, and strategy for Stord’s AI platform.
  • Design and build agent orchestration, tool systems, prompt management, integration APIs, and other core platform components.
  • Develop hands-on in the TypeScript stack using Hono, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, D1, Drizzle, and the AI SDK with Anthropic Claude.
  • Build scope-aware tools that expose orders, inventory, and knowledge-base capabilities to AI agents.
  • Design fault-tolerant integrations with downstream services, including Elixir/Phoenix APIs, with graceful degradation.
  • Integrate ML model outputs through API layers as requirements evolve.
  • Lead design reviews, code reviews, release decisions, architecture guidance, and technical quality standards.
  • Mentor engineers at all levels and help senior engineers become more autonomous technical decision-makers.
  • Establish effective AI-assisted development practices and create reusable abstractions, documentation, and developer tooling.
  • Partner with Product Management, engineering leadership, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and product engineering teams on AI strategy and adoption.
  • Proactively identify technical risks and opportunities and communicate technical decisions to stakeholders.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of production TypeScript experience and comfort owning a large TypeScript codebase.
  • Experience designing stateful distributed systems at the edge; Cloudflare Workers or Durable Objects experience is strongly preferred.
  • Experience building and shipping agentic or LLM-powered features in production, including prompt engineering, tool or function calling, and context management.
  • Experience consuming or integrating with event streaming systems such as Redpanda or Kafka; Redpanda Connect or Kafka Connect experience is a plus.
  • Experience designing and consuming APIs, OpenAPI specifications, and event-driven architectures.
  • Strong SQL fundamentals and experience with D1, SQLite, or PostgreSQL; Drizzle ORM experience is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with Cloudflare, GCP, or AWS and understanding of serverless and edge deployment models.
  • Experience instrumenting production systems with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar observability tools.
  • Strong technical judgment, architecture ownership, communication, influence, mentoring, and accountability skills.
  • Ability to use and teach directed AI-assisted development practices while maintaining independent technical judgment.
  • Elixir/Phoenix familiarity, broader Cloudflare platform experience, Anthropic Claude or AI SDK experience, Model Context Protocol familiarity, logistics or e-commerce knowledge, open-source contributions, WebSocket experience, and scope-based authorization or multi-tenant systems experience are preferred.

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About Stord

1,001-5,000 employees
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