Platform Engineer — Full-Stack AI Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

PTO

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Abaka AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Platform, to build full-stack features for our Expert Talent platform from idea to shipped, instrumented capabilities used by real customers. You'll own end-to-end delivery across frontend, backend, and integration layers with a product mindset.

You'll work with cross-functional teams, embed AI into workflows, and help scale our platform as Abaka grows, bringing strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity, and ownership from day one.

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.
• Knowledge in building AI Agents into productinos
• 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.

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 development

LLM features in production

AI coding tools

Product mindset

AI-native

Testing & debugging

Ambiguity management

Ownership & shipping

Job description

Abaka AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Platform, to build full-stack features for our Expert Talent platform from idea to shipped, instrumented capabilities used by real customers. You'll own end-to-end delivery across frontend, backend, and integration layers with a product mindset.

You'll work with cross-functional teams, embed AI into workflows, and help scale our platform as Abaka grows, bringing strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity, and ownership from day one.