Lead Software Engineer (APIAgentic)

• Spend most of your time writing reviewing and shipping production backend code.
• Use agentic coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow including AI-assisted code review automated test generation and AI-augmented development while keeping code quality security and human oversight in place.
• Design and build APIs and services end to end from technical approach and API contract through implementation testing and release.
• Contribute to backend architecture across our C#/.NET and Python services keeping them modular maintainable and testable.
• Define clear versioned API contracts that client teams on iOS Android and desktop can consume easily.
• Work closely with Product Management UX and client engineers to take defined features from spec to shipped raising technical tradeoffs and feasibility early.
• Optimize service performance and scalability including latency throughput database query efficiency caching concurrency and cloud cost.
• Write and maintain automated unit integration and contract tests for your services.
• Drive CI/CD automation release quality and deployment processes for containerized cloud services.
• Ship behind feature flags with progressive rollout and kill switches and validate new behavior with production telemetry before ramping up.
• Own service health through observability tracking SLOs error rates latency budgets and defect trends and take part in on-call and incident response.
• Take part in code reviews and share knowledge with other engineers.
• Evaluate new backend cloud AI and tooling technologies and recommend adopting them where they would meaningfully improve the teams work.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
• 8 years of professional backend software development experience with deep production-level expertise in either C#/.NET ( Core) or Python (FastAPI/Django).
• Proven experience designing and running backend architectures at scale: microservices or modular monoliths event-driven and asynchronous messaging (e.g. Kafka RabbitMQ SQS/SNS Azure Service Bus) and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong API design skills using REST including versioning pagination idempotency error handling and OpenAPI documentation.
• Strong experience with relational and NoSQL data stores (e.g. PostgreSQL SQL Server MongoDB DynamoDB Redis) including schema design indexing and query tuning.
• Strong understanding of the concurrency model in your primary language (async/await and the Task Parallel Library or asyncio in Python).
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (AWS Azure or GCP) containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent).
• At least one year of hands-on practical use of modern AI engineering tools (Claude Code Cursor Copilot etc.) with experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into backend services where relevant (agentic patterns evals and latency/cost/reliability tradeoffs).
• Experience with architectural patterns such as Clean Architecture Domain-Driven Design CQRS or hexagonal architecture.
• Strong debugging profiling and performance optimization skills with tools such as dotTrace/PerfView py-spy/cProfile and APM tracing.
• Experience with automated testing (unit integration contract load) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins).
• Experience instrumenting services with observability tools (e.g. Datadog OpenTelemetry Prometheus/Grafana).
• Bonus: experience with both C# and Python.
• Bonus: experience working with client engineering teams (iOS Android Electron/Angular) to design APIs that fit mobile and desktop needs.

Soft Skills

• Communicates clearly in writing and in person with engineering product and design.
• Works well with Product Management UX and client teams and builds agreement on scope and tradeoffs.
• Shares knowledge readily and helps other engineers on the team grow.
• Stays curious about new tools and techniques especially in AI-assisted development and brings practical improvements to the team.

Additional Information :

Weve Got You Covered

At Cricut we take care of our people. Enjoy competitive Medical Dental and Vision coverage a 401(k) match generous PTO tuition reimbursement and a yearly lifestyle stipend to support your wellness and passions. Youll also receive exclusive employee discountsand best of all youll be surrounded by some of the most talented creative and curious minds out there.

A Quick Note Before You Apply

Cricut is in an exciting chapter of transformation. Were evolving fastrefining our strategy growing our teams and raising the bar across everything we do. This is an incredible opportunity for the right kind of personbut its not for everyone.

Were looking for A-playerspeople who thrive in dynamic environments turn challenges into momentum and consistently deliver their best work. If that sounds like you read on.

Heres what makes someone a great fit for this role (and for this moment at Cricut):

• You move with urgency. You dont wait for perfect clarity to actyou start learn and adjust.
• You set high standards. You take ownership deliver quality and hold yourself accountable.
• You stay focused when things move fast. You prioritize what matters most and tune out the noise.
• You collaborate like a pro. You elevate others communicate clearly and bring a low-ego high-output energy.
• You embrace AI as part of your toolkit. From idea exploration to data analysis and creative problem-solving you leverage AI to accelerate innovation and amplify impactbecause technology and creativity go hand-in-hand here.

One More Thing (Its a Big One)

This role is in-office at least 45 days per week. We believe real collaboration innovation and culture are built face-to-face. If youre energized by working alongside smart kind creative peopleand love those hallway conversations that spark the next great ideayoull feel right at home.

If youre looking for a fully remote role this may not be the right fit. But if youre excited by challenge purpose and building something betterlets make something amazing together.

Relocation Statement:

 This position is eligible for relocation assistance.

What to Do Next: Please attach your resume cover letter and/or include links to your portfolio or other social presence. If you want to show your super powers in other ways include that information too. You can be sure that Cricut is an employer who values individuality equality and diversity so tell us what youre all about. If you are a Maker or a DIY enthusiast whether you think you are a good one or not we would love to hear about it when you send us your information.

Cricut is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This position is contingent on successfully completing a Criminal Background Check upon hire. Cricut participates in E-Verify.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time