Staff Software Developer

About AppDirect

Become a digital global citizen and enable the new generation of digital entrepreneurs around the world. AppDirect offers a subscription commerce platform to sell any product through any channel on any device - as a service. We power millions of subscriptions worldwide for organizations. We do this by our values-driven cultureone that enables you to Be Seen Be Yourself and Do Your Best Work.

About You

We are looking for a Staff Developer to join the core team. This is a critical Individual Contributor (IC) role that operates with extreme autonomy in a startup-within-a-startup environment focusing on solving the hardest technical problems in enterprise AI application development. is AppDirects most strategic initiative focused on building the next generation of AI-driven enterprise tools.

You are a Staff full-stack developer with deep experience in application-layer AI. You thrive on architectural challenges operate effectively in a high-velocity release environment and are passionate about shaping the future of AI tooling. You will collaborate daily with the most senior engineers in the company driving technical strategy and execution.

We are looking for someone that brings a fresh perspective and new ideas and contributes their ideas and personality to the collective group. If you are an individual that is excited to take on new challenges technologies and adventures we are looking for you!

What youll do and how youll make an impact

• Design and Build Full-Stack AI Products: Ship end-to-end AI-powered applications (frontend and backend) that will be used directly by our enterprise clients.
• Architect and Implement Core AI Pipelines: Design implement and optimize complex RAG pipelines and robust LLM tool integrations to enable sophisticated agent capabilities.
• Drive Strategic Product Features: Be a primary contributor to key products including:
  • App Builder: Contribute to the development of our low-code agent builder platform.
  • Agent Studio & Agentless Chat Backend: Build scalable and performant backends for agent management and conversational AI.
  • MCP Integrations: Rapidly develop and deploy new integrations using the Model Context Protocol.
• Own Workflow Orchestration: Implement complex features for workflow management including scheduling triggers and sophisticated approval flows.
• Set Architectural Direction: Operate with significant technical ownership contributing to the core architectural decisions that will shape the platform and technology stack for years to come.

What were looking for

• Experience & Level: 8 years of professional software development experience.
• Full-Stack Technical Depth:
  • Demonstrated ability to drive projects across the full stack.
  • Strong experience with Typescript React and .
  • Proficiency with backend data technologies like MySQL and Redis.
• AI Application Expertise:
  • Strong hands-on experience building production-grade AI-powered applications (application-layer AI).
  • Expertise designing and implementing RAG pipelines.
  • Experience with LLM tool integrations and orchestration tools like LangChain or LangGraph.
• Architectural Leadership: Deep expertise in complex system design architectural thinking and API development.
• Operational Excellence: Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously in a fast-moving high-shipping environment working seamlessly with senior/principal-level peers.

At AppDirect we believe that innovation thrives in an environment that houses diversity of excellence experience and thought. We respect each AppDirector as their own fingerprint; unique with no one alike. We foster an environment of inclusion without regard to race religion age sexual orientation or gender identity enabling AppDirectors to embrace their uniqueness to do their best work. As such we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples racialized people people with disabilities people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

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