Senior Software Engineer - AI Workflows & Systems

Bake AI Inc.; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Bake AI Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in San Mateo or remote. You will own substantial features and systems from design through production—APIs, backend services, data models, and interfaces used to configure work and interpret results.

The role requires strong architectural judgment and at least five years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building reliable, maintainable software in collaboration with research and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional software engineering experience.
• Independently designed, shipped, and maintained a meaningful product or system.
• Strong programming in Python, TypeScript, or Go with ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases.
• Solid backend fundamentals: API design, relational data modeling, asynchronous processing, and failure handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services, APIs, and web interfaces for research, evaluation, and agent workflows, including launching jobs, managing configurations and datasets, and inspecting results.
• Own projects from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and subsequent improvements, making trade-offs explicit.
• Build dependable background processing for long-running work with clear job states, cancellation, retries, and recovery.
• Develop data models and application interfaces that keep runs, artifacts, and results organized and traceable as workflows evolve.
• Turn research prototypes into maintainable software with clear boundaries, documented interfaces, reproducible behavior, and appropriate access controls.
• Improve application reliability and performance through testing, profiling, observability, and investigation of production issues.
• Raise engineering quality through thoughtful design and code reviews, practical documentation, and mentoring.

Skills

5+ years experience

Python

TypeScript

Go

API design

Relational data modeling

Asynchronous processing

Code reviews

Technical writing

Job description

Bake AI Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in San Mateo or remote. You will own substantial features and systems from design through production—APIs, backend services, data models, and interfaces used to configure work and interpret results.

The role requires strong architectural judgment and at least five years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building reliable, maintainable software in collaboration with research and engineering teams.