Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VibeIQ is transforming the way brands bring products to market, offering a unique Assortment Lifecycle Platform for retail and apparel brands. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform team, where the role involves building and maintaining critical infrastructure and services, driving technical solutions, and collaborating across teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain the core platform services and infrastructure that power VibeIQ - search, file management, identity, authentication, workspaces, and more
- Own major components and multi-month initiatives end-to-end - from technical design through deployment and monitoring
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across the platform
- Define and enforce service patterns, best practices, and engineering standards that product teams build on
- Own and evolve security and authentication systems, monitoring tools, and observability across the stack
- Steward platform SDKs - ensuring they are well-designed, documented, and maintainable
- Design and build AI infrastructure - including MCP patterns, agent systems, and token management and throttling
- Partner across teams to identify platform needs, reduce friction, and close gaps in shared capabilities
- Contribute to technical strategy, including evaluating new technologies and making build-vs-buy recommendations
- Debug and resolve critical production issues across distributed systems
- Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar for the team
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS - you should be comfortable across Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, IAM, and related services
- Experience designing and maintaining scalable, distributed backend systems (Node.js and TypeScript preferred)
- Strong understanding of security and authentication patterns in cloud-native environments
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and operational tooling for production systems
- Demonstrated ability to own ambiguous technical problems, define requirements, and drive solutions independently
- Comfort working across a broad surface area - platform engineers at VibeIQ touch everything from core infrastructure and identity systems to search, file services, and AI tooling
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems
- Clear, effective technical writing - design docs, runbooks, and documentation that others can act on without follow-up
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills - you can explain technical tradeoffs to engineers, product managers, and leadership alike
- Startup mentality: comfort with ownership, fast iteration, and wearing multiple hats
- Experience with AI/LLM infrastructure - MCP, agent frameworks, or similar patterns
- SDK design and stewardship for internal or external consumers
- Experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch at scale
- Familiarity with SaaS integrations (PLM, DAM, PIM, or ERP systems)
- Experience managing hosting costs and optimizing cloud spend
- Experience with automated testing strategies and testable system design
- Exposure to frontend technologies (Angular or React)
- Contributions to developer experience initiatives - internal tooling, platform documentation, onboarding workflows
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- 12 Paid Holidays per Year
- Discretionary Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
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