Platform Staff Engineer - End-to-End AI Features

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

PTO

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Abaka AI is looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Platform, to build full-stack product features for our Expert Talent platform—from 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 collaborate with cross‑functional teams like product, project management, and leadership. This generalist role requires FE/BE fluency and a product mindset.

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 in 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.
• High ownership, pragmatism, and a bias toward shipping.
• 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).

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

API design

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Relational databases

React/TypeScript

LLM integration

AI Agents

Product mindset

Testing

Debugging

Performance optimization

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Abaka AI is looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Platform, to build full-stack product features for our Expert Talent platform—from 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 collaborate with cross‑functional teams like product, project management, and leadership. This generalist role requires FE/BE fluency and a product mindset.