Senior Software Engineer
Company: Cerifi
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $155,000 - $165,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-25
About this role
Description:
The Opportunity
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale our platform. This role is for engineers who work fluently alongside AI tools and agent frameworks — not as a novelty, but as a core part of how modern software gets built. You'll ship production systems, design architectures that scale, and raise the bar for code quality on a team where AI is a daily collaborator.
We don't want someone who just uses AI to type faster. We want someone who uses AI to think bigger — and who has the judgment to know when the AI is wrong, when it's right but unwise, and when to do the work themselves.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate production services that serve our customers — backend, infrastructure, and the integration points in between.
- Lead technical projects from ambiguity to shipped feature: scope, design, build, deploy, measure, iterate.
- Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or whatever fits the task) as a force multiplier — to draft, refactor, explore, and review — while staying accountable for everything that ships under your name.
- Build and integrate AI-powered features into our product where they create real customer value: agent workflows, LLM-backed APIs, retrieval systems, and evaluation pipelines.
- Review code rigorously — including AI-generated code — and help establish standards for how the team incorporates AI output into the codebase safely.
- Debug hard problems in production. Trace through systems you didn't build. Form hypotheses, verify them, and fix the cause, not the symptom.
- Mentor other engineers, especially on the meta-skills that matter most now: judgment, taste, verification, and knowing when to push back on AI suggestions.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and longer-term technical strategy.
Requirements:
What we look for
Core engineering skills
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- S...