Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Growth & Referrals

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in San Francisco is seeking a software engineer to build incentive mechanics, referral flows, and personalization driving member growth. You’ll deliver large projects and modernize pipelines to scale with company growth.

You will mentor engineers, integrate AI tools, and own front- and back-end features from design to production, ensuring performance and reliability in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• 3+ years of non-internship full-time professional software development experience
• Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Python, Java, or JavaScript
• Strong backend API and service ownership, with ability to work confidently in React / React Native frontend surfaces
• Ability to own projects end-to-end, make sound technical tradeoffs, and execute with minimal direction
• Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude or Claude Code and agentic AI workflows
• Preferred: growth-team, incentives, rewards, social mechanics, personalization, A/B testing, ML model serving, experimentation platforms, ML feature stores, or health/regulatory-data experience

Responsibilities

• Build incentive mechanics, referral flows, and personalization that drive member-to-member referral growth
• Deliver large projects introducing new product capabilities and maintain key code repositories
• Modernize existing pipelines to scale products with company growth
• Break down complex problems into manageable tasks and deliver predictably
• Identify and resolve root causes of production incidents
• Collaborate on technical roadmaps and execute ambitious technical strategies
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and real-time pairing
• Integrate AI technologies to automate processes and enhance product features
• Improve feature maintainability, availability, and performance
• Contribute to architecture and developer tooling
• Communicate technical ideas to technical and non-technical partners
• Document technical solutions

Skills

Software development experience

Backend API Development

Frontend Development with React/React 

AI Integration

Code Review

Technical Documentation

Problem Solving

Project Delivery

Production Incident Resolution

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Claude

Claude Code

AI Coding Tools

Experimentation Platforms

ML Feature Stores

Job description

Jobtailor in San Francisco is seeking a software engineer to build incentive mechanics, referral flows, and personalization driving member growth. You’ll deliver large projects and modernize pipelines to scale with company growth.

You will mentor engineers, integrate AI tools, and own front- and back-end features from design to production, ensuring performance and reliability in a fast-paced environment.