Senior AI Engineer - Build Proactive AI Agents for Scale

Tapcart; Santa Monica (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Equity

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Home office stipend

Job summary

Tapcart is a mobile commerce engine powering Shopify’s fastest-growing brands. We value ownership, AI-driven product development, and craft. You’ll work directly with leadership to ship durable software across frontend, backend, and data layers, impacting hundreds of millions of users.

This role emphasizes architectural leadership, fast iteration, and collaboration with merchants to deliver value early while maintaining high engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering and product work.
• Demonstrated skills across frontend, backend and database layers.
• A Github that is more green than black.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship core product that feels durable, fast and clean. Work across multiple stacks to deliver impact.
• Design our proactive AI agent orchestration layers used by thousands of high growth brands
• Prototype new interaction patterns for human-agent collaboration
• Raise our bar for engineering craft, help with recruiting, and hold the line on quality
• Dogfood the platform and our apps every day :)

Skills

Frontend

Backend

Database

GitHub

Job description

Tapcart is a mobile commerce engine powering Shopify’s fastest-growing brands. We value ownership, AI-driven product development, and craft. You’ll work directly with leadership to ship durable software across frontend, backend, and data layers, impacting hundreds of millions of users.

This role emphasizes architectural leadership, fast iteration, and collaboration with merchants to deliver value early while maintaining high engineering standards.