Impact

Key Responsibilities

1. AI Product Development

• Build & Integrate: Design and implement full-stack features that utilize LLMs (OpenAI Anthropic Gemini) to solve user problems. You will build Generative UI elements where the AI renders interactive UI components.

• MCP Ecosystem & Tooling: Build and maintain Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to expose internal databases APIs and business logic as tools for LLMs.

• Streaming Interfaces: Using tools such as Googles Agent Development Kit to build low-latency interfaces that stream text to the client ensuring a responsive user experience even with slow models.

• Roadmap Ownership: Leading a team of developers to build new features on the web and mobile experience. Designing solutions and driving consensus between different teams.

2. Backend Systems & Orchestration

• Golang Development: Write robust high-performance Go code to orchestrate AI services. You will use goroutines to manage concurrent agent execution and handle long-running third-party API calls efficiently.

• API Design: Design and implement RESTful and gRPC APIs that serve as the interface between our frontend and the AI models.

• Event-Driven Architecture: Collaborate on integrating Kafka and Redis to build asynchronous message processing pipelines. You will help decouple AI agents allowing them to communicate via events rather than direct calls.

• Observability: Ensuring dashboards are set up for monitoring services to help debug issues during on-call incidents troubleshooting.

3. AI-Assisted Engineering (The AI-Enhanced Workflow)

• Tool Utilization: Actively use AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot Cursor etc.) to accelerate boilerplate code generation unit testing and documentation. You will be expected to use these tools to multiply your output.

• Code Review & Debugging: Critically evaluate and debug AI-generated code. You are the gatekeeper of quality; you must understand every line of code committed ensuring it meets security and performance standards. You will fix errors in code logic.

• Prompt Engineering & Evals: Iteratively refine system prompts to ensure consistent safe and high-quality model outputs. You will write automated Evals to test the AIs performance against regression.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 810 years of professional software engineering experience.

Core Stack:

• GoLang: Practical experience building backend services or APIs in Go. Understanding of goroutines channels structs and Go modules.

• JavaScript/TypeScript: Proficiency with React and the ecosystem (App Router Components Hooks etc.).

AI/LLM Familiarity:

• Experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI Anthropic Gemini) into applications.

• Design and implement tools that allow AI models to interact securely with our backend services ensuring the LLM has the right context to perform tasks.

• Familiarity with orchestration concepts (Googles ADK Vercel AI SDK or custom orchestration).

• Database Literacy: Comfortable writing SQL queries and interacting with relational databases (Postgres preferred).

• Engineering Best Practices: Experience with Git version control CI/CD basics and writing unit tests.

Nice-to-Have Skills (The Differentiators)

• Mobile Development: Experience with React Native or Expo. Ability to deploy AI features to mobile devices and understand the constraints of mobile networks.

• Advanced Data Infrastructure: Familiarity with Apache Kafka for event streaming or Redis for caching.

• DevOps/Cloud: Exposure to Docker Kubernetes and AWS/GCP services.

Skills & Education

This list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.

Work Arrangement

Shipt considers candidates located near a Shipt office or workspace in Birmingham San Francisco or Minneapolis to be hybrid which means that they have the flexibility to work from home (with leader approval) or at a Shipt office in order to facilitate the ability to innovate collaborate and spark team -office expectations will vary by role and leader. Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.

About Shipt

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love retail businesses to more satisfied customers and workers to new earning opportunities.

At Shipt we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging spark opportunities for growth provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better both personally and professionally. We understand that our service our culture and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day. Learn More.

Shipt is an independently operated wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham Alabama. For more information please visit Shipts company site at .

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color national origin ethnicity religion or religious belief sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age military or veteran status disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need a reasonable accommodation. If you need assistance filling out a job application please complete this form.

For technical interviews Shipt uses an online coding the event you may need a reasonable accommodation to use the online coding platform please connect with your recruiter.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical dental vision and more. Employees may enroll in our companys 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave. Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.