Senior Software Engineer, Composer AI Product

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About the Role

The Klaviyo Composer team is building the foundation for how Klaviyo customers plan create edit and iterate on their marketing strategy through an inapp AIpowered conversational experience. We own the native chat surface the agent orchestrator and the agentic UI framework that other teams across Klaviyo will plug into.

By joining the Klaviyo Conversational AI Platform team you will have the opportunity to have a direct impact on over 170000 brands that use Klaviyo every day to engage with their customers. Youll also help define and build Klaviyos Autonomous Marketing platform: an ecosystem of LLMpowered agents that can analyze create and optimize marketing programs across campaigns flows forms and more.

As a Senior Engineer youll tackle complex technical and product challenges develop multiple solution paths and evaluate business and architectural trade-offs to determine the best approach. Youll also act as a technical leader and mentor driving engineering quality execution and decision-making across projects. Additionally youll be responsible for deploying well-designed thoroughly tested solutions that prioritize reliability scalability and customer impact.

Success in this role means shipping high-quality systems quickly contributing to foundational platform decisions improving the intelligence and reliability of our agent experiences and helping define how AI-powered customer engagement evolves at Klaviyo.

What Were Looking For

• A proven track record of building high-quality products and systems with pride in writing clean maintainable high-quality code.
• 7 years of experience in a software engineering role.
• Strong experience developing end-to-end software solutions or extensive experience across both front-end and back-end technologies.
• Experience building scalable customer-facing systems in fast-moving product environments - we operate like a startup inside of Klaviyo.
• Experience leading projects and being accountable for technical and business outcomes.
• Experience mentoring team members or driving initiatives that help the team grow and learn new skills.
• Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining a robust testing and deployment cycle.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI-native product development including practical experience experimenting with LLMs AI tooling or agentic workflows in professional or personal projects.
• Excitement about leveraging AI to improve engineering velocity customer experiences and operational workflows.
• A strong product mindset and willingness to collaborate cross-functionally to solve ambiguous problems with urgency and pragmatism.

Nice to Have

• Skills with Python and related technologies.
• Skills with React and related technologies.
• Experience building conversational AI systems workflow engines or agentic platforms.
• Experience with retrieval systems embeddings eval frameworks or LLM orchestration patterns.
• Experience building cloud-native solutions ideally with AWS.
• Experience developing customer support commerce marketing or customer data software solutions.
• Experience with machine learning systems or AI infrastructure.
• Experience building multi-tenant or highly configurable SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with observability tracing experimentation or AI quality/evaluation tooling.