Member of Technical Staff, Platform

Embedding VC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

PTO and flexible schedule

Job summary

Abaka AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Platform, to design, build, and ship full‑stack features end‑to‑end for the Expert Talent platform. You’ll work across frontend, backend, and integrations, collaborating with product, project management, and leadership to turn ideas into shipped customer‑facing capabilities.

This generalist role emphasizes customer impact, AI-powered workflows, and strong ownership as Abaka scales.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production features.
• Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, and relational databases.
• Comfortable working across the stack, including modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React/TypeScript).
• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features in production is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of building AI agents into products.
• Product-minded: you ask 'why should we build this' and assess customer outcomes.
• AI-native by default: you already use AI coding tools daily.
• Solid engineering fundamentals: testing, debugging, performance basics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship full-stack product features — UI, API, and data layer — with a strong bias toward shipping and iterating quickly.
• Own features end-to-end, from product discussion through implementation, testing, and release.
• Embed AI directly into product workflows: AI-powered features, assistive UX, and automation that make the product feel intelligent, not just functional.
• Build evaluation pipelines and data models for AI-powered features.
• Leverage modern AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining a high engineering bar.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape scope and UX, not just implement a spec handed to you.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and observability of assessment infrastructure.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend fundamentals

Frontend (React/TS)

LLM features in production

AI agents in products

Product-minded

AI coding tools

Testing and debugging

Ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

React/TypeScript

AWS/GCP

Microservices

APIs

Data modeling

Job description

About AbakaAbaka AI is built on one mission: to be the world's most trusted data partner for AI companies. More than 1,000 industry leaders across Generative AI, Embodied AI, and Automotive AI rely on us to power their data pipelines. With our headquarters in Silicon Valley—and teams in Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo—we support global partners with fast, reliable, and scalable data solutions. Our offerings include a diverse catalog of off-the-shelf datasets (image, video, multimodal, reasoning, 3D, and beyond) as well as comprehensive data collection and annotation services. Whether teams need raw data, curated datasets, or full-cycle data engineering, Abaka AI provides the foundation for building high-performance AI systems.

About the Role

As a Member of Technical Staff, Platform, you'll build full-stack product features for our Expert Talent platform end-to-end—from a rough idea in a product discussion to a shipped, instrumented feature in front of real customers and users. You'll work across the stack (frontend, backend, and the glue between them) and work closely with cross-functional teams like product, project management, and leadership. This is a generalist product engineering role, and you need to have full-stack (FE and BE) fluency and a product mindset in the way you approach development. You care as much about whether a feature solves the customer and users' problems as you do about how it's built. Our Expert Talent platform is growing and scaling significantly in the 1-100 stage, so your impact will be immense and have a great deal of ownership from day one.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship full-stack product features — UI, API, and data layer — with a strong bias toward shipping and iterating quickly.
• Own features end-to-end, from product discussion through implementation, testing, and release.
• Embed AI directly into product workflows: AI-powered features, assistive UX, and automation that make the product feel intelligent, not just functional.
• Build evaluation pipelines and data models for AI-powered features.
• Leverage modern AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining a high engineering bar.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape scope and UX, not just implement a spec handed to you.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and observability of assessment infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production features.
• Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, and relational databases.
• Comfortable working across the stack, including modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React/TypeScript) when the product needs it.
• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features in production is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of building AI agents into products.
• Product-minded: you ask 'why should we build this' and 'is this the right solution' as naturally as 'how do I build this,' and you treat customer outcomes as the measure of success, not the technology you shipped.
• AI-native by default: you already use AI coding tools daily, and you've built or shipped features that use LLMs/AI.
• Solid engineering fundamentals: testing, debugging, performance basics, and the judgment to know when to invest in each.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving priorities.
• High ownership, pragmatism, and a bias toward shipping.

Preferred Qualifications

• Startup or founder experience.
• Experience building consumer-facing products at scale.
• ML and Deep Learning knowledge and experience.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary range for this position is $120,000 – $200,000 USD annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience.

Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work at Abaka AI.

This role is eligible for equity, as well as a comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision, PTO, flexible work schedule).